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Vatican City, Oct 7, 2016 / 03:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- For the second year in a row the Sistine Chapel Choir has recorded an album inside the chapel of its namesake, this year selecting pieces by Palestrina that focus on mercy in honor of the Jubilee.Created in partnership with the classical music label Deutsche Grammophon, the second album was released Oct. 7 and is titled “Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli/Motets.”Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who lived from 1525-1594, is an Italian Renaissance sacred music composer, and is perhaps one of the most well-known composers of sacred polyphony.His most famous piece and the only one of his compositions dedicated to a Pope is his “Missa Papae Marcelli,” which takes up the first five of the 14-track CD.It contains the music of the original printed edition of the Mass in 1567, as well as two previously unpublished motets, “Veritas mea et misericordia mea” and “Iubilate Deo.”The CD was prese...
Oslo, Norway, Oct 7, 2016 / 04:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to secure peace with the FARC rebel group, despite the rejection of a proposed peace deal in a national referendum.“I am infinitely grateful for this honorable distinction with all my heart,” President Santos said Oct. 7. “I accept it not on my behalf but on behalf of all Colombians, especially the millions of victims of this conflict which we have suffered for more than 50 years.”“It is for the victims and so that there not be a single new victim, not a single new casualty that we must reconcile and unite to culminate this process and begin to construct a stable and durable peace,” he added.Since 1964, when the FARC uprising began, as many as 260,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in Colombia’s civil war.The conflict has caused the rise of right wing paramilitaries aligned with th...
New York City, N.Y., Oct 7, 2016 / 04:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The United Nations Security Council has selected committed Catholic and human rights advocate as the nominee for Secretary General of the international organization.“I have two words to describe what I'm feeling now – gratitude and humility,” António Guterres said.“Humility about the huge challenges ahead of us, the terrible complexity of the modern world. But it is also humility that is required to serve the most vulnerable, victims of conflicts, of terrorism, rights violations, poverty and injustices of this world.”Should Guterres' nomination be approved by the 193-member UN General Assembly, he will begin his tenure as UN Secretary General Jan. 1, 2017. Guterres will replace outgoing secretary general Ban Ki-moon, who has served two five-year terms.From 2005 to the end of 2015, Guterres ran the UN refugee agency, where he has oversaw aid and assistance for more than 60 milli...
By Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Most people who keep an eye on life issues know the shorthand aboutthe Hyde Amendment -- that it bars the federal government from fundingabortions through Medicaid.But theamendment does more than that -- although not everything pro-lifers may wish itcould do -- and with the amendment's 40th anniversary Sept. 30 just passed, itmay do well to remember how it all came about.It wasin 1973 that the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton cases were decided by the SupremeCourt, which ruled that women could obtain abortions virtually on demand. From that point, politicians and citizens opposed to abortion in bothparties were looking for ways to overturn the decision, or at least placerestrictions on abortion.It wasa time that "we didn't know which part would claim to be the party of life,"said Michael New, a visiting professor of education at Ave Maria University, duringa Sept. 29 anniversary observance in Washington sponsored by the March for Life organization.Th...
HOUSTON (AP) -- Handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, the chief executive of an internet site authorities accuse of being "a hub for the illegal sex trade" waived extradition to California on Friday, and his attorney vowed to fight the "trumped up" sex trafficking and money laundering charges he faces....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- By winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Juan Manuel Santos got a big boost Friday in his efforts to save an agreement seeking to end Colombia's half-century conflict....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump blurted out lewd and sexually charged comments about women as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. The Republican presidential nominee issued a rare apology Friday, "if anyone was offended."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. bluntly accused Russia on Friday of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the upcoming presidential election....
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew spared Florida's most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South's most historic and picturesque cities with ruinous flooding and wind damage as it pushed its way up the coastline....
