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(Vatican Radio) The first-ever global conference on faith and sport took place this week here at the Vatican.For three days, representatives from the sporting world – athletes and competitors at all levels and of all ages and abilities – along with coaches, owners, managers, corporate sponsors and experts in fields ranging from sports medicine and psychology to training, discipline, education and formation, gathered together in the Vatican for discussions with leaders from the world’s great religious traditions to discuss how sport can be in the service of humanity.The conference organizers and sponsors – especially the Pontifical Council for Culture under its Cardinal-President, Gianfranco Ravasi – and founding partner, Allianz, hope over the long term successfully to foster a worldwide movement that will enrich lives by helping people, through sport, to build trust and learn cooperation, foster friendship, live healthy lives, and have fun....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told the participants in the General Chapter of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) to ‘love Jesus with passion and the Church without conditions’.His exhortation came in a private audience in the Vatican’ Clementine Hall on Friday, as the religious Institute celebrates the 200th anniversary of its founding.The Chapter reelected Fr. Louis Lougen on 30 Sept as Superior General for a second six-year term.Recalling the order’s founder, St. Eugene de Mazenod, Pope Francis said he was a ‘man of Advent’ who ‘loved Jesus with passion and the Church without conditions’, telling the Oblates to follow his example of ‘docility to the Spirit’.The Holy Father said their missionary work, though difficult, should make them ‘joyous witnesses’ of the Gospel.Recognizing their work at the 63rd General Chapter, the Pope said the ‘fraternal experience of prayer, confrontation, and communit...
Arlington, Va., Oct 7, 2016 / 05:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The new Bishop of Arlington, Virginia says he wants to accompany his flock as much as possible, teaching and administering the sacraments.“And that would be my highest priority, to teach the truth in love, and to give them the sacraments which will sustain them. And so with God’s word and with the sacraments, that’s how we grow in holiness,” Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, the new Bishop of Arlington, told CNA Tuesday at a press conference announcing his appointment.Bishop Burbidge was tapped by Pope Francis to become the new Bishop of Arlington, Va., the Vatican announced on Tuesday morning. He will replace Bishop Paul Loverde, 76, who is retiring after 17 years as bishop there. Bishops must submit a letter of resignation to the Pope at age 75, according to Canon Law. Bishop Burbidge will be installed as Arlington’s bishop at a Dec. 6 Mass.Bishop Burbidge comes from Raleigh after spending 10 years th...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A damaged New Jersey Transit commuter train that crashed into Hoboken's terminal last week, killing a woman on the platform and injuring more than 100 people, has been removed from the station to undergo further examination....
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos is likely to give a boost to the country's efforts to end a half-century of hostilities with leftist rebels. The Associated Press explains how the conflict began and developed over the decades....
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decade civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people - and said he received the award in the name of the Colombian people....
Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 7, 2016 / 12:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A deadly attack on Christians in northeast Kenya was intended to drive them out of the region, a radio station run by the militant Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed.The group said that its militants were behind a grenade and gun attack on a residential block in the town of Mandera, when people were sleeping, BBC News reports. The attack killed six people.The group said via radio that the attack happened as planned and was aimed at Christians. A spokesman for the group told the BBC that the group wanted non-Muslims to leave areas it regards as Muslim.Militants also attacked a telecommunications site, according to Mandera County commissioner Fredrick Shiswa, who said this was a diversion from the attack on the neighborhood.Shiswa said the attack appeared to have been planned over a long period and was carried out with efficiency.Mandera is on the border of Somalia, where the al-Qaeda affiliated group is based.Many of the town...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a clean bill of health after undergoing an emergency heart procedure on Thursday. But his brief hospitalization drew attention to the lack of a clear successor to the aging leader and the ongoing rift between rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip....
BERGSHAMRA, Sweden (AP) -- Emelie Eriksson has a bond with her son that hardly seems possible: She and her son were born from the same womb....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton....
