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Tbilisi, Georgia, Sep 30, 2016 / 08:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- God's love and our unity in Christ are what enable us to overcome conflict and disagreement, and to spread the Gospel – which is what bears spiritual and artistic fruit, Pope Francis said in Georgia on Friday.“Truly, the love of the Lord raises us up, because it enables us to rise above the misunderstandings of the past, above the calculations of the present and fears for the future,” the Pope said in a meeting with the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, which is one of the 14 autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches.Unity between the Georgian Orthodox Church and Catholic Church, joined with a firm faith in Christ, the Pope said, is necessary so that “the Gospel may bear fruit in our day,” just as saints “put the Gospel before all else.”Pope Francis met with Ilia II, Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, at the Patriarchal Palace in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi Sept. 30....
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenTBILISI, Georgia (CNS) -- Subtly acknowledging Georgia'songoing territorial dispute with Russia, Pope Francis urged greater efforts tosow peace throughout the Caucasus region.Shortly after arriving in Tbilisi at the start of his 16thforeign trip, the pope met privately with Georgian President GiorgiMargvelashvili Sept. 30 and, with the president, he addressed a small gatheringof civic leaders and members of the diplomatic corps outside the presidentialpalace.In a nation where more than 230,000 people are stilldisplaced by the ongoing Georgian-Russian dispute over control of SouthOssetia, the pope said it was time to find a way for the displaced to return totheir homes and for respect for the "sovereign rights" of eachnation. Only Russia and a handful of other nations recognize the supposedindependence of South Ossetia.The theme the government and local church chose for thepope's visit Sept. 30-Oct. 1 was "pax vobis," "peace be withyou."Margvelas...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Earnie Grafton, ReutersBy SANDIEGO (CNS) -- Bishop Robert W.McElroy of San Diego askedpeople to pray for calm and called on police to be "as transparent aspossible" in their investigation following the shooting of unarmed man ina San Diego suburb.The bishop saidthe Catholic community was saddened by the shooting death of Alfred Olango of El Cajonduring a confrontation with police officers Sept. 27."Weunderstand the pain the community feels. We pray for calm during this wrenchingtime and stand ready to work together to achieve true justice and peace forall," Bishop McElroy said in a brief statement released by the dioceseSept. 29.The bishop saidhe acknowledged the personal risk police officers face, but called fortransparency as they worked to piece together details of the incident.Since theshooting, protesters have marched in the streets of El Cajon.Authoritiessaid two men were arrested late Sept. 29 after violence broke out during aprotest involving 50 to 75 people...
BERLIN (AP) -- After 12 years of hurtling through space in pursuit of a comet, the Rosetta probe ended its mission Friday with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it was sent out to study....
NEW YORK (AP) -- More sophisticated cameras. Security robots. Customers feeling shaken by recent attacks at U.S. malls may not notice huge changes - but mall operators are testing and putting in place new technologies and other measures to offer people more protection without intruding too much on their shopping time....
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Germany's biggest bank is looking shaky and some investors fear it could collapse and endanger the wider financial system....
HOUSTON (AP) -- At Tacos Tierra Caliente - a food truck parked in a section of Houston where Spanish is spoken as often as English - $1.50 can buy such street taco staples as pollo (chicken), barbacoa (shredded beef) and lengua (tongue)....
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- Federal investigators pulled one of the black box recorders from the wrecked commuter train at the Hoboken station and struggled to extract the second one Friday as they tried to figure out what caused the crash that killed one person and injured more than 100 others....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump shamed a former beauty pageant winner Friday for her sexual history and encouraged presidential voters to check out what he called her "sex tape," in an early-morning tweet-storm that dragged him further away from his campaign's efforts to broaden his appeal to women....
The Daughters of St. Anne, based in Ranchi, the capital of India’s Jharkhand state, is an indigenous religious congregation whose members have DSA Ranchi as the identifying initials after their name. With a history of nearly 120 years, the Daughters of St. Anne Ranchi was founded on July 26, 1897 by Mother Mary Bernadette Prasad Kispotta, a local Chotanagpur tribal woman, together with three of her companions, as an answer to the situation and needs of the contemporary local Church at that time. Mother Kispotta died in on Apr. 16, 1961 at the age of 83, and with the opening of the process of her sainthood in the Archdiocese of Ranchi on Aug. 7 this year, Mother Kispotta thus became the first tribal woman of India to be declared a “Servant of God” by the Catholic Church.According to their website, the charism of the Daughters of St. A...
