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Vatican City, Oct 9, 2016 / 03:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At the close of the Marian Jubilee, Pope Francis said that it’s often strangers and even people from other religions who remind us of the Christian virtues of humility and thanksgiving, of which Mary is a prime model.“How many foreigners, including persons of other religions, give us an example of values that we sometimes forget or set aside,” the Pope said Oct. 9.People who live among us but might be “scorned and sidelined because they are foreigners,” can in fact be the ones who “teach us how to walk on the path that the Lord wishes.”Not only were the 10 lepers healed by Jesus in the day’s Gospel from Luke foreigners, the only one who gave thanks being a Samaritan, but Mary and Joseph were also strangers in a foreign land, Francis noted.Mary “knew what it was to live far from home. She too was long a foreigner in Egypt, far from her relatives and friends,” he said, &l...
Vatican City, Oct 9, 2016 / 04:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis announced that he will hold a consistory of cardinals on the Nov. 19 vigil of the close of the Jubilee of Mercy, during which he will elevate 17 new cardinals – including three Americans.“Dear brothers and sisters I am happy to announce that Saturday, Nov. 19 at the vigil for the closing of the Holy Door of mercy, a consistory will take place for the nomination of 13 cardinals from 5 continents,” the Pope said Oct. 9.“The fact that they come from 11 nations expresses the universality of the Church, which announces and bears witness to the good news of the mercy of God in every corner of the earth.”Opened Dec. 8, 2015 – the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – the Jubilee is set to close Nov. 20, with the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.Among the 17 new cardinal-elects are three Americans: Archbishop Blasé Cupich of Chicago, Archb...
INDIO, Calif. (AP) -- Neil Young performed for nearly two hours to open the second night of the Desert Trip music festival, matching the energy of band members half his age....
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a funeral hall packed with thousands of mourners in Yemen's capital Saturday, killing over 140 people and wounding more than 525 in one of the deadliest single attacks of the country's civil war, a U.N. official said....
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Police have apprehended the man who fatally shot two officers and wounded another in Palm Springs, California, authorities announced Sunday....
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone Sunday morning but still had some dangerous fight left in it, dumping more than a foot of rain on North Carolina in a deluge that flooded homes and businesses as far as 100 miles inland....
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Dozens of people were injured Saturday when a commuter train hit a work train east of New York City and derailed, officials said....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Eight Afghan army soldiers were killed early Sunday morning when a military helicopter crashed in northern Baghlan province, officials said....
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Just three days after Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Lazarenko was taken prisoner in the war in Ukraine's east, a peace agreement was signed under which the sides agreed to an "all-for-all" prisoner exchange. A year and a half later, his wife still waits desperately for his return....
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew still had some dangerous fight left in it early Sunday, dumping more than a foot of rain on North Carolina in a deluge that flooded homes and businesses as far as 100 miles inland....
