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Würzburg, Germany, Sep 26, 2016 / 02:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Engelmar Unzeitig, a priest of the Mariannhill Mission society who was interred in the Nazi's Dachau concentration camp and has been recognized as a martyr, was beatified during a Mass on Saturday.Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann of Würzburg said during his homily for the Sept. 24 Mass at the city's cathedral that Fr. Unzeitig, known as the "Angel of Dachau", brought the light of God's goodness to the place where his presence “is least expected.”Fr. Unzeitig lived under a “dehumanizing dictatorship,” Bishop Hofmann noted, saying, “we can learn from him not to subject ourselves to a dictatorship, even a dictatorship of opinions.”The following day, before leading pilgrims to Rome in the Angelus, Pope Francis made note of the beatification, saying that “Killed in hatred of the faith” Fr. Unzeitig “opposed hatred with love, and answered ferocity answe...
Aleppo, Syria, Sep 26, 2016 / 04:17 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Christian and Muslim children of Aleppo, Syria will gather together in prayer on October 6 to plead for an end to the violence and devastation in their city and country.Archbishop Boutros Marayati, the head of the Armenian Catholic archieparchy in Aleppo, told a mission society news agency that the initiative will involve mostly primary school-aged children, who will add their signatures and fingerprints to an appeal to all world leaders, asking them to help stop the violence."But above all, they will pray. They will pray for all of their peers,” the Archbishop told Agenzia Fides, the information service for the Pontifical Mission Societies.“And we trust in the fact that children's prayer is more powerful than ours," he added.Last month, the bloodied, dusty face of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, sitting shell-shocked in the back of an ambulance after his house had been bombed, brought new attention to ...
MIAMI (AP) -- Dee Gordon hit an emotional homer in Miami's first at-bat following the death of Marlins ace Jose Fernandez in a boating accident....
CHASKA, Minn. (AP) -- Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth all chased the Grand Slam, golf's holy grail of winning all four majors in one year....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's foreign minister said Monday that an internationally-brokered cease-fire is still viable, as rescue workers in Aleppo sifted through the rubble from the heaviest airstrikes on rebel-held areas of the northern city in five years....
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- The suspect accused of killing five people at a Macy's department store confessed to police, court documents said, but his motive remained a mystery Monday as a portrait emerged of him as a mentally troubled young man whose parents said they were trying to help him....
HOUSTON (AP) -- A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said....
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's government and the country's largest rebel movement signed a historic peace accord Monday evening ending a half-century of combat that caused more than 220,000 deaths and made 8 million homeless....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Patricia L. Guilfoyle, Catholic HeraldBy Patricia L. GuilfoyleCHARLOTTE,N.C. (CNS) -- Justin Carr's future looked bright. He had just celebrated his26th birthday, started a new job, and was getting ready to settle down with hishigh school sweetheart and start a family.Butall that ended the night of Sept. 21, when a bullet shattered his skull. Thenext day, he was dead.Carr'sdeath marked the most violent episode in nearly a week of protests in Charlottethat erupted after another man, Keith Lamont Scott, was shot and killed bypolice Sept. 20 in an apartment complex parking lot.Demandingjustice in the police shooting, protesters marched through uptown Charlotte theevening of Sept. 21 and confronted police in riot gear. Carr was among them."Ineed to make a stand," he told his mother when he called her from thescene. He said wanted to follow in the footsteps of his grandmother, who hadmarched during the civil rights era.Lessthan an hour later, Vivian Carr learned her son ...
