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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing new challenges to a legacy law, the Obama administration on Wednesday set modest expectations for the president's final health care sign-up season. The biggest worry: rising premiums and dwindling choices....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis held his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, during which he exhorted the faithful and all people of good will to renewed and strengthened personal commitment to the often dire needs of our neighbors, especially those who are hungry and thirsty.The Holy Father was speaking to pilgrims and tourists gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the occasion, during which he reflected on the first of the Corporal Works of Mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty.The Pope emphasized the need not only for personal commitment to causes like eradicating hunger and guaranteeing access to food and water, but for personal commitment to the people who are hungry – many of whom are our neighbors and fellow citizens.Click below to hear our report “Access to food and water is a basic human right, yet so many members of our human family, especially children, continue to suffer from hunger and thirst,” said Pope Fran...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, called on Monday for a financial system and a global economy that respects the human person.Speaking on the first day of the 3rd European Microfinance Forum (3rd EMF) taking place in Rome, Cardinal Turkson quoted from Pope Francis’ encyclicals and messages that denounce the current culture of waste and speak of an anthropological crisis that has placed wealth at the summit of a scale of values. He also praised the tools provided by microfinance and microcredit which, he said, “not only have a positive economic impact, but also a social and cultural one. The Forum aims to provide public institutions, private sector operators and non-profit organizations with an opportunity to debate and share views from their various perspectives on economic and social development and credit access.In his speech Cardinal Turkson said that right from the beginning of his Pontificate, s...
Malolos Diocese in Philippines had their annual Youth Congress on Oct. 14 at the Sports and Convention Centre with the theme “The Modern Youth and the Christian Family’s Active Role in the Eucharist”.During Mass to open the event, Msgr. Bartolome Santos, Vicar General of the Diocese of Malolos, urged the participants to be “Eucharistic persons” and explained to them the three important characteristics of being Eucharistic persons namely, prayerful, thankful, and communal. He called them to live out these qualities despite their youth.Organized by the Diocesan Campus Ministry (DCM) of the Diocese of Malolos , the congress included two keynote speakers, Bro. Alvin Barcelona and Rita Cusio. Barcelona spoke about the topic “21st Century Youth Leader: Media, Technology, and the Youth of Today”. Meanwhile, Cusio gave a talk on “Awakening the Greatness Within: It Takes a Leader to Raise Up a Leader”.Some 600 st...
(Vatican Radio) As Iraqi troops move on Mosul to liberate the strategic city from the so-called Islamic State, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, has called for peace and national unity in Iraq.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: In an appeal shared with AsiaNews, His Beatitude Louis Raphael Sako says he would like to “speak from the bottom of his heart to our Iraqi family as a whole”.In such difficult and exceptional circumstances, he says, he feels the need to address common concerns and worries and warns that if “the voices of division, inflexibility and break up begin to rise, they may obstruct the operations of release”.“I strongly believe – Patriarch Sako says – that we Iraqis are one family despite our different affiliations”.And he calls on all to avoid accusations and blame and urges everyone to put an end to disputes and factional interests.“Only by upholding the good of all Iraqis – he says - &nb...
New York City, N.Y., Oct 19, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The apostolic nuncio to the United Nations again stressed the need for nuclear weapons disarmament on Monday, with the worldwide adherence to the non-proliferation treaty a step to this goal.“Nuclear arms offer a false sense of security and the uneasy peace promised by nuclear deterrence is a tragic illusion.” Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic nuncio heading the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations, said Oct. 17.“Nuclear weapons cannot create a stable and secure world. Peace and international stability cannot be established on mutually assured destruction or on the threat of total annihilation. Lasting peace cannot be guaranteed by the maintenance of a balance of terror,” he added.Instead, peace must be based on justice, socio-economic development, freedom, human rights, and building trust between peoples, the archbishop told a session of the U.N. General Assem...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS)-- While donation campaigns and charitable contributions for the needy areimportant, true Christian charity involves a more personal touch, Pope Francis said.Coming face to facewith the poor may pose a challenge and tempt people to turn the other way and give in to"the habit of fleeing from needy people and not approach them or disguisea bit the reality of the needy," the pope said Oct. 19 during his generalaudience in St. Peter's Square."Poverty in theabstract does not challenge us. It may make us think, it may make us complain,but when you see poverty in the flesh of a man, a woman a child; this (certainly)challenges us!" he said.Thousands packed thesquare for the weekly audience, many of whom attended the Oct. 16 canonizationMass of seven new saints. Among the pilgrims was a group from the pope's native Argentina whosang folk music and dressed in traditional ponchos.After his address,the pope greeted the group and blessed a life-sized sta...
BERLIN (AP) -- The European Space Agency planned to land an experimental probe on Mars Wednesday as part of an international mission to analyze the red planet's atmosphere and hunt for signs of life....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Send in the frowns....
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, has been moved from a hospital to a state prison....
