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There was a priest who, ordained in 1600, saw the priesthood as a career, a way to save money and retire early.
Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 24, 2016 / 04:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Californians should vote for Proposition 62, a ballot measure to end the death penalty, the Archbishop of Los Angeles has said in a reflection on justice, Catholic teaching and American society.“It is time for us to end the death penalty – not only in California but throughout the United States and throughout the world,” Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said Sept. 21.“In a culture of death, I believe mercy alone can be the only credible witness to the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person.”His essay is part of a special issue of the Los Angeles archdiocese's newsweekly Angelus dedicated to the Church and the death penalty.Rather than condemn criminals to death, he said, Christians “should pray for their conversion and encourage their rehabilitation and ultimate restoration to society.”Those who seek an end to the death penalty must not forget the victims of c...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Liberty guard Brittany Boyd sat on the bench with her head bowed during the national anthem....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Ted Cruz appears uncomfortable defending the man he says he'll vote for in November, Donald Trump....
BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) -- The first 911 call came in just before 7 p.m. on a busy Friday night at the Cascade Mall: A man with a rifle was shooting at people in the Macy's Department Store....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Black history officially has a new, prominent place in America's story....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte police released dramatic video footage Saturday that shows officers surrounding a black man with his hands at his side before shots are fired and he buckles to the ground. It's unclear if there was anything in the man's hands....
(Vatican Radio) Austria's chancellor has convened a meeting of his German, Greek and west Balkans counterparts on strategies to deal with Europe's biggest migration crisis since World War Two, including closing the so-called Balkans route, which was used by hundreds of thousands of refugees.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: European leaders met in Vienna Saturday at Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern's invitation to discuss how to better fortify the European Union's outer borders against illegal migration and trafficking.As the meeting began, EU Council President Donald Tusk told reporters that the summit should focus on how to keep closed the Balkans route that was used last year by hundreds of thousands of people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other troubled nations. "Since the first days of the migration crisis I had no doubts that the main key to a resolution is restoring effective control of the EU external borders," he said."And obviou...
To make the liturgical celebrations more meaningful, active and participatory, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) has published “The Directives for the Celebration of the Liturgy”.The ‘Liturgical Directives’ was released by Oswald Cardinal Gracias, the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India and the President of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference (FABC) at a small function held during the 75th Executive Committee meeting of the CCBI on Tuesday 20th September 2016 at St. John’s National Academy of health Sciences, Bangalore. Its first copy was handed over to Archbishop Dominic Jala, the Chairman of the CCBI Commission for Liturgy and the Archbishop of Shillong.The 27th Plenary Assembly of the CCBI which was held from 3 to 9 February 2015 deliberated on the theme “Liturgy and Life. The members of the Assembly requested the Liturgical Commission to prepare directives for the celebration of the liturgy for li...
Vatican City, Sep 24, 2016 / 09:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In the face of the devil's assaults, we must respond as God would, promoting respect for others and extending love and forgiveness to those who have harmed us, Pope Francis said in a Saturday audience with survivors of the terror attack in Nice, France in July.“When the temptation to turn in on themselves, or to answer hatred with hatred and violence with violence is great, authentic conversion of heart is necessary,” he said Sept. 24. “This is the message that the Gospel of Jesus addressed to all of us.”Pope Francis received the nearly 1,000 survivors of the July 14 attack in Nice in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. After his speech he greeted them each one by one.Eighty-six people were killed and over 400 were wounded in the Nice terror attack in July after a Tunisian man, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, intentionally drove a large truck through the crowded seafront Promenade des Anglais.The crowds...
