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Vatican City, Sep 11, 2016 / 08:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said that God shows us, through parables, the merciful love of the Father, who rejoices over for every sinful person who returns to him.“The message of the Gospel today gives us great hope and we can summarize it thus: there is no sin into which we have fallen, from which, by the grace of God, we can not rise again; there is not an irretrievable individual, because God never ceases to want our good,” he said, “even when we sin!”In his Sept. 11 message for the Angelus, Pope Francis talked about the three parables in the day's Gospel, which was from Luke 15.Christ tells three parables – the shepherd who leaves his 99 sheep to find the lost one, the woman who searches for her lost coin, and the parable of the prodigal son – in answer to the scribes and Pharisees who criticize him, saying, “this man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”Each of th...
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BEIRUT (AP) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday welcomed a U.S.-Russian agreement on a cease-fire for Syria, where it has been a key ally of President Bashar Assad during the five-year war that has resulted in as many as 500,000 deaths....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by calling on Americans to embrace the nation's character as a people drawn from every corner of the world, from every religion and from every background. He said extremist groups will never be able to defeat the United States....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday, with victims' relatives reading their names and reflecting on a loss that still felt as immediate to them as it was indelible for the nation....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on commemorations marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis, following the recitation of the Sunday Angelus had a special prayer for Gabon which is going through a time of severe political crisis.Speaking to the many pilgrims and tourists in St Peter’s Square, the Pope said, “I entrust to the Lord the victims of the clashes and their families. I join the Bishops of that dear African country to invite the parties to reject all violence and to always aim for the common good. I encourage everyone, particularly Catholics, to be builders of peace within the law, in dialogue and fraternity.”The Holy Father, also remembered Fr Ladislaus Bukowinski who was persecuted for his faith and was beatified Sunday in Karaganda in Kazakhstan. Pope Francis said that “in his life he always showed great love for the weakest and neediest and his testimony appears as a distillation of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.
New York City, N.Y., Sep 11, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On the clear, sunny morning of Sept. 11, 2011, Fr. Kevin Madigan heard an explosion overhead. He grabbed oils for anointing and ran out the door of St. Peter's parish in New York city and wandered towards the center of the commotion – the World Trade Center only a block away.Fifty blocks uptown, Fr. Christopher Keenan, OFM watched with the world as the smoke rising from the twin towers darkened the television screen. Looking to help, he went to St. Vincent's Hospital downtown to tend to those wounded in the attack – but the victims never came.All the while, he wondering what had happened to a brother friar assigned as chaplain to the firefighters of New York City: Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM, named by some the “Saint of 9/11.”Fifteen years ago on this day, hijackers flew planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. In a fie...
