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(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...
Vatican City, Oct 4, 2016 / 05:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has tapped two active bishops to head new dioceses, naming Bishop Paul D. Etienne of Cheyenne as the new Archbishop of Anchorage, and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Raleigh as Bishop of Arlington.Announced in an Oct. 4 communique from the Vatican, the appointments came as the former bishops of Anchorage and Arlington go into retirement, after having reached the age limit.Archbishop-elect Paul D. Etienne, 57, is an Indiana outdoorsman with many relatives also in the priesthood or religious life.Born in Philadelphia in 1959, the bishop grew up as one of six children to parents who have been married more than 50 years. Two of his brothers are priests, and his sister is a religious.He graduated from the University of St. Thomas/St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. with a degree in Business Administration before studying at the North American College in Rome and receiving a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from...
PARIS (AP) -- French police on Tuesday continued hunting for five people suspected of assaulting Kim Kardashian West in a private Paris residence before robbing her of more than $10 million worth of jewelry....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told President Barack Obama "you can go to hell" in his latest tirade against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studies on exotic matter that could result in improved materials for electronics or quantum computers....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- It was just a scraped knee. So 3-year-old Ashley Pacheco's parents did what parents do: They gave her a hug, cleaned the wound twice with rubbing alcohol and thought no more of it....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. isn't abandoning its pursuit of peace in Syria despite suspending U.S.-Russian talks on a cease-fire....
