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NEW YORK (AP) -- In his years as a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he'd like to have sex with....
The Second Indonesian Youth Day (IYD) being hosted by the Diocese of Manado began on Oct. 1, with 2600 youth from the country’s 37 dioceses living the first three days of the event in families of 37 parishes of the diocese. They have been allotted to mostly Catholic families, but also to Protestant and a few Muslim families. The theme of the Oct. 1-6 event, “The Joy of Gospel Amidst a Plural Society in Indonesia”, intends to emphasize and demonstrate that as a minority group, Catholics want and can live in harmony and brotherhood with people with other religions, especially Muslims who form nearly 90 percent of Indonesia over 250 million population. To find out how this live-in programme is working out at the ground level, we journalist covering the IYD made a two-hour trip on Sunday, Oct. 2, to the Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Tanawangko, a 2-hour drive from Manado, the capital of the North Sulawesi province. As we drove along the ...
Aboard the papal plane, Oct 2, 2016 / 06:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During his flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the journalists aboard the the papal plane. He reflected on his trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan, marriage and divorce, and homosexuality and gender identity.He also addressed the next consistory of cardinals, the Nobel Peace Prize, and St. John Paul II.Please find below the full text of the press conference, translated by Catholic News Agency:Pope Francis: Good evening and thank you very much for your work and your help. It’s true, it was a short trip, three days, but you have had a lot of work. I am at your disposition and I thank you very much for the work, and ask what you would like.Greg Burke, Holy See press officer: Thank you, Holy Father. The first question goes to Georgia, the television presenter Ketevan Kardava.Ketevan Kardava, Georgian Public Broadcaster: Thank you very much. Thank you, Holy Father, for yo...
CHASKA, Minn. (AP) -- Patrick Reed shook his fists with fury for every big putt he made. Phil Mickelson leaped higher than when he won his first Masters. Ryan Moore delivered the final point in this American masterpiece Sunday at the Ryder Cup....
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Francis says Jesus would never turn away transgender faithful and that priests today should accompany them spiritually, even if they undergo sex change operations, sin and repent....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Vulnerable Haiti braced for flash floods and violent winds from the extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm kept on a path early Monday aiming at the hemisphere's poorest country....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombians rejected a peace deal with leftist rebels by a razor-thin margin in a national referendum Sunday, scuttling years of painstaking negotiations and delivering a strunning setback to President Juan Manuel Santos, who vowed to keep a cease-fire in place and forge ahead with his efforts to end a half-century of war....
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 2, 2016 / 02:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At 101 years old, Doña Penha has seen quite a bit of life. But the centenarian experienced something new on September 28, as she received her First Communion during Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel nursing home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.For those who witnessed the occasion, it was a great testimony to the love of God.“It was a very beautiful moment that showed us that it is never too late to receive the Eucharist, which for someone seeking God, neither time nor shame can prevent,” said the administrative assistant of the nursing home, Josiane Ribeiro. She added that occasions like this help “reaffirm faith.”Ribeiro told CNA that Doña Penha arrived about a year ago at the nursing home, which is run by the Sisters of the Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima Association. There is a chapel on site where Mass is celebrated during the week.Doña Penha began to attend Mass with the othe...
Aboard the papal plane, Oct 2, 2016 / 03:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On his way back from Georgia and Azerbaijan Pope Francis criticized what he called the “wicked” push of gender theory in schools, but stressed that individuals who struggle with their sexual identity ought to be treated with mercy, as Jesus would do. “In my life as a priest and bishop, even as Pope, I have accompanied people with homosexual tendencies, I have also met homosexual persons, accompanied them, brought them closer to the Lord...and I have never abandoned them,” the Pope said Oct. 2.These people must be accompanied in the same way that Jesus would accompany them, he said, noting that Jesus would never tell a person “go away because you are homosexual.”However, while these people must be shown love, there is a “wickedness which today is done in the indoctrination of gender theory.”Gender theory or ideology is the idea that one's 'gender' is chose...
