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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton will try to capitalize on tumult in the Trump campaign Tuesday as she hunts for votes in the Philadelphia suburbs, while Donald Trump will shore up support in Arizona....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew roared across the southwestern tip of Haiti with 145 mph winds Tuesday, uprooting trees and tearing roofs from homes in a largely rural corner of the impoverished country as the storm headed north toward Cuba and the east coast of Florida....
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles is of Mexican origin and says we are called to build bridges and not walls when it comes to tackling the issue of immigration to the U.S. He is the first-ever Hispanic Archbishop of Los Angeles, a U.S. city with one of the highest proportions of Hispanic/Latino residents, and is chairman of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration. The archbishop was interviewed by Susy Hodges.Listen to the interview with Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles: Archbishop Gomez is actively involved in efforts to welcome immigrants and to discern ways in which the U.S. Church can better respond to the Hispanic/Latino presence, especially through his participation in the ‘V Encuentro’ ministry. The V Encuentro calls for the development of resources and initiatives to better serve the fast-growing Hispanic populations in dioceses and parishes across the U.S.Archbishop Gomez reminded that i...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited the earthquake-hit towns of central Italy in a surprise journey on Tuesday morning, praying with the residents of Amatrice on the feast day of his namesake, St. Francis, telling them to ‘move forward’ together for ‘there is always a future’Listen to Devin Watkins' report: The Holy Father arrived by car with the Bishop of Rieti, Domenico Pompili, in Amatrice on Tuesday morning at 9:10 a.m. to visit those people affected by the earthquake of 24 August.His first visit was to the newly constructed ‘Capranica’ school, where the Pope met with elementary and middle-school aged children, who gave him several of their handmade drawings.Pope Francis hugged them one-by-one and listened to their stories of the deadly earthquake in Amatrice where 231 of the total 297 people died.During his visit, Pope Francis told the residents of Amatrice, “I thought long and hard in the first days of these many pain...
Pope Francis named Bishop Martin S. Jumoad as the new bishop of the Archdiocese of Ozamiz (Philippines).Bishop Jumoad will transfer from the Prelature of Isabela, Basilan to replace resigned Msgr. Jesus Dosado as shepherd of the Archdiocese of Ozamiz, Philippines.Bishop Martin S. Jumoad, DD was born on Nov. 11, 1956 in Kinasangan, Pardo, Cebu City. He was ordained a priest on April 7, 1983. Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Isabela, Basilan on Nov. 21, 2001. His episcopal ordination as the Third Bishop-Prelate of Isabela (Basilan) was on Jan. 10, 2002. He was installed on Jan. 12, 2002. Bishop Jumoad is currently member of CBCP Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itenerant People (ECMI) and the Episcopal Commission on Mission (ECM). He was also the Assistant Pastor of Isabela Cathedral (1983-1986), Pastor of the parish of St. Anthony in Lamitan (1986-1989), Assistant and later dean of the “Remase” seminarians in Davao (1990-1992), Pastor of th...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has released his videomessage accompanying his monthly prayer intention for October. This month’s intention is for Journalists: That journalists, in carrying out their work, may always be motivated by respect for truth and a strong sense of ethics.The text of the video message reads:“I often wonder: How can media be put to the service of a culture of encounter?We need information leading to compromise for the good of humanity and the planet.Join me in this prayer request.That journalists, in carrying out their work, may always be motivated by respect for truth and a strong sense of ethics. Can you help me spread this prayer request?Yes.”The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network of the Apostleship of Prayer developed the "Pope Video" initiative to assist in the worldwide dissemination of monthly intentions of the Holy Father in relation to the challenges facing humanity.
II Kgs 5:14-17; II Tm 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19 In a little Church, there were the father and mother of a young man killed in a military battle. One day, they came to the pastor and told him they wanted to give a monetary gift as a memorial to their son who died in battle. The pastor said, "That's a wonderful gesture on your part." He asked if it was okay to tell the congregation, and they said that it was. The next Sunday he told the congregation of the gift given in memory of the dead son. On the way home from Church, another couple was driving down the highway when the father said to his wife, "Why don't we give a gift because of our son?" And his wife said, "But our son didn't die in any conflict! Our son is still alive!" Her husband replied, "That's exactly my point! That's all the more reason we ought to give in thanks to God." We too often build fences around forgiveness, faith, duty, and gratitude. In passages like...
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 4, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- What would you do if you're a young medical student who was told that you must participate in abortion in order to get your degree? Or if you and your family have to make the decision about what kind of life support and extraordinary care to provide a loved one in their final days? Or if you're a priest trying to counsel a couple in your parish through the difficult struggle with infertility? These are all questions Catholics in the 21st-century are facing – and each have complicated answers. Luckily, the Church has the National Catholic Bioethics Center, an independent Catholic institution based in Philadelphia, Pa., working to provide guidance based in Church teaching to laity, clergy, and scientific professionals to help them clarify the murky bioethical issues Catholics wade through in our world today. “What makes us unique,” said Dr. Marie Hilliard, director of bioethi...
Amatrice, Italy, Oct 4, 2016 / 03:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis made an unannounced private visit to the small Italian city of Amatrice to offer support areas devastated by a massive earthquake in August, where he offered a message of comfort and hope.“I let a bit of time pass, so that some things could be repaired such as the school, but from the first moment I felt that I had to come to you. Simply for nothing more than to pray. I pray for you,” the Pope said during his Oct. 4 visit.He said that “closeness and prayer” were the offering he brought, and prayed that the Lord would bless those affected, and that the Virgin Mary would “comfort you in this moment of sadness, pain and trial.”“Go forward, there is always a future, there are many loved ones who have left us. They have fallen here, let us pray to the Virgin for them. Let us do it together.”After arriving to Amatrice at 9:10 in the morning, the Pope, acc...
