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(Vatican Radio) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced it will be holding its next meeting from November 14th to 16th, in Baltimore for the fall general assembly.A statement from the USCCB said that during the assembly, the bishops will elect a new president, vice president, and five committee chairs. In addition, they will discuss and vote on the Conference’s strategic plan for 2017-2020, and will receive a report and recommendations on promoting peace in violence-stricken communities.The bishops will hear from Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, as he gives his final address as USCCB president upon completion of his three-year termThe bishops will also vote for new chairmen-elect of the following five USCCB committees: Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, Committee on International Justice and Peace, and the Committee on th...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Joe Tosini believes that on the last day Jesus willjudge people on whether they fed the hungry, clothed the naked and, especially,whether they loved one another, not on whether they were baptized with asprinkling of water as an infant in a Catholic Church or by being plunged intoa pool as an adult in an evangelical service.Tosini, a Pentecostal Christian, is founder of thePhoenix-based John 17 Movement,an ecumenical initiative about forming relationships and friendships amongChristians.Unlike the formal ecumenical dialogues the Catholic,Orthodox, Anglican and mainline Protestant churches engage in, the John 17initiative does not involve theological dialogue and the examination ofdoctrinal similarities and differences.Tosini and others in the movement focus on Jesus' actionsand words at the Last Supper and, particularly on his prayer in John 17:21: "That theymay all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they a...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesROME (CNS) -- The heroism of Mexico's newest saint, St. JoseSanchez del Rio, should embolden the nation's priests to continue theirministry with trust in God, said the vice postulator of the youngsaint's cause.For priests in Mexico, especiallythose who denounce the activity of drug traffickers and find themselves targeted for attacks,the life of St. Jose is a call to place their "full trust in God," Antonio Berumen, the vice postulator, toldCatholic News Service Oct. 14."There comes a time in which, evidently, we must livethrough difficult times, but in the end Jose's message is 'I trust in you,'" he said. "Itis complete trust in God and havingthe assurance that there is someone who acts and continues to act in the livesof men and women."As Pope Francis declared seven new saints Oct. 16, one ofthe banners hanging on the facade of St. Peter's Basilica showed a young boydressed in blue jeans and a white shirt.In his hands, the 14-year-old ...
VIENNA (AP) -- The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be torn down and replaced with a new building that has no association with the Nazi dictator, Austria's government announced Monday, as it moved to eliminate the property's significance for neo-Nazis as a place of pilgrimage....
NEW YORK (AP) -- It took nearly four decades to find and try a suspect in the haunting disappearance of first-grader Etan Patz. The trial itself spanned three months of testimony and 18 days of deliberations before a jury finally deadlocked....
BANGKOK (AP) -- For Thailand's royalists - and there are millions of them - King Bhumibol Adulyadej will probably long remain embedded as a potent, father-like figure who guided them through turbulent decades and espoused ideals of national harmony, labor on behalf of the poor and the virtues of an agrarian society vanishing in the wake of headlong modernization....
PARIS (AP) -- WikiLeaks says that founder Julian Assange's internet access has been cut by an unidentified state actor. Few other details were immediately available....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at Republicans who have tried to tone down his rhetoric about election fraud, calling his own party's leaders "so naive" and claiming without evidence that large-scale voter fraud is real....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi forces have launched their most complex anti-IS operation to date: retaking the country's second-largest city of Mosul. While the country's military has won a string of territorial victories that have pushed the Islamic State group out of more than half the territory the group once held, some Iraqi officials worry that the Mosul fight has been rushed and if the city is retaken without a plan to broker a peace, it could lead to more violence....
