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Vatican City, Oct 14, 2016 / 05:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has decided to send an initial contribution of $100,000 to Haiti to help with emergency recovery in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the Vatican announced Friday.Donated through the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the money will be used to support flood victims, and “is intended as a first and immediate concrete expression of the feelings of paternal spiritual closeness and encouragement of the Holy Father toward the people and territories affected,” an Oct. 14 communique from the Vatican read.Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in the morning on Oct. 4. A category four storm with winds racing at 145mph, it is the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade, devastating Haiti, which is still reeling from the catastrophic earthquake that crushed much of the country in 2010.With more than 1,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, according to the BBC, Haiti was hardest hit in the southeast, with many in towns and ...
New York City, N.Y., Oct 14, 2016 / 06:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Christianity is at a crossroads in the Middle East, and only a dedicated campaign of aid and activism can help Christians survive as a merciful, forgiving leaven in the region, said the head of the Knights of Columbus Wednesday.“Either Christianity will survive and offer a witness of forgiveness, charity and mercy, or it will disappear, impoverishing the region religiously, ethnically and culturally,” Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight and CEO of the Knights of Columbus, said Oct. 12.His remarks came at the awards banquet for the Path to Peace Award. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic nuncio heading the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the U.N., conferred the award in recognition of the Knights of Columbus’ work in the Middle East and their humanitarian work throughout the world. The award is granted by the Path to Peace Foundation, which supports the Holy See’s U.N. mission....
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For Cardinal-designate Blase J. Cupichof Chicago, one of nine children born to a family in Omaha, Nebraska, more than40 years of priesthood have been filled with "Are you kidding me?"moments.Like Pope Francis, the archbishop of Chicago has a specialaffection for Caravaggio's painting of "The Calling of St. Matthew"and he often stops in Rome's Church of St. Louis of France to look at it.Ordained a bishop on the feast of St. Matthew, Sept. 21, in1998, Cardinal-designate Cupich said that the call of Matthew speaks to"my own spirituality." In the painting, he said, Matthew has "thatsurprised look on his face, that sense of wonderment, of 'Are you kidding me?'And that's the way I kind of feel at this point in my life.""No one could have ever crafted this story; this issomething that is an 'Are you kidding me?' moment," the cardinal-designatetold Catholic News Service Oct. 13 during an interview in Rome. Just a few days after Pop...
IMAGE: CNS/Don Doll, S.J.By Carol GlatzROME (CNS) -- Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, 67, amember of the Jesuits' Venezuelan province, was elected the first non-Europeansuperior general of the Society of Jesus.The 212 voting delegates to the Jesuit general congregationelected Father Sosa Oct. 14. He succeeds Father Adolfo Nicolas, 80, who hadasked to resign because of his age.Pope Francis was informed of the election of Father Sosabefore the Jesuits announced it publicly.The election came after four days of prayer, silence andquiet one-on-one conversations among the voting delegates, who were chosen torepresent the more than 16,000 Jesuits around the world.Reacting to his election, Father Sosa told Vatican Radio,"I have the feeling of needing great help; now the great challengebegins."Because they belong to the Society of Jesus, "Jesusmust give us work to do here, too, with us," he said. The work of theJesuits isn't the responsibility of one person, but of the entire order, whose...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nancy Grace has said goodnight for the final time after 12 years of discussing true crime stories from a prosecutor's point of view on TV....
OTISVILLE, N.Y. (AP) -- Bear hugs are nothing. Jim Kowalczik hugs bears....
The Obama administration announced Friday that it is eliminating a $100 limit on the value of Cuban rum and cigars that American travelers can bring back from the island....
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's first lady has openly questioned her husband's work and said she may not support him if he runs again - comments that President Muhammadu Buhari laughed off, saying, "I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room."...
MELILLI, Sicily (AP) -- Body No. 421, bagged in midnight blue, is heaved from a refrigerated truck onto a metal stretcher and wheeled into the tent that serves as a morgue. It joins other putrefying corpses that fill the air with a pungent scent that clings to the clothing and hair of the living....
TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) -- They were, says Denise Kirchner, "the worst three hours of my life" - the agonizing moments after her son accidently shot her and her 14-year-old daughter Madison while cleaning his semi-automatic gun in their Iowa home....
