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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- Though generally renown for Gregorian chant, curating librariesand offering quiet retreats, some Benedictine monks also brew beer, run farmsor play electric guitar, like Abbot Primate Nokter Wolf.Endinghis third and final term as leader of the confederation of Benedictinemonasteries, the 76-year-old German monk also plays in a rock group, namedFeedback, in his spare time, and performs classical and sacred music onflute.Abest-selling author, too, Abbot Wolf said he had seen his volume, "WhatAre We Waiting For? Heretical Thoughts on Germany," piled high next to astack of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," at the Munich airport'snewsstands.It'snot unusual to find monks pursuing such aesthetic or eclectic endeavors becausethey embrace creativity, he told Catholic News Service.Havingpeople from different backgrounds living, talking, working and praying togethermeans "you are rather creative, I would say, in a monastery," hesaid.Buti...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Honoring Star Trek's50th anniversary, the Vatican newspaper said the overwhelmingly popular seriesgave the world a model of peace, tolerance and cooperation at a time of global tensions.The show -- whose first episode aired Sept.8, 1966 -- began during the Cold War. But "while builders of nuclear falloutshelters made buckets of money, especially in the United States, Star Trekproposed a true model of cooperation," the article said.Captain James Kirk and his faithful crew, itsaid, journeyed to distant galaxies and discovered new civilizations "inorder to propose peaceful relations (built) on a foundation of equality."Also significant and groundbreaking was themakeup of the crew of the starship Enterprise: an alien, an African-American woman and aJapanese man, it said. "Today is might seem totally normal,but it's important to remember that America at the time had recently emergedfrom a bloody war fought against Japan, too, and it was marked by deep...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Having flopped with the New York Jets, Tim Tebow will try to revive his career as an outfielder with the Mets....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The growth of the U.S. Latino population - once the nation's fastest growing - slowed considerably over the past seven years and slipped behind that of Asian Americans amid declining Hispanic immigration and birth rates, a study released Thursday found....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Young Hispanic and Asian-Americans who are immigrants or have an immigrant parent are more likely to be liberal in their views on politics and immigration than those with families who have been in United States longer, a new GenForward poll shows....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A Marine recruit committed suicide in March amid a widespread culture of hazing and abuse in his battalion at Parris Island that could lead to punishments for as many as 20 officers and enlisted leaders, the Marine Corps said Thursday....
KHARABRUD, Iraq (AP) -- An Iranian Kurdish rebel group received military training in weapons and explosives from U.S. and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the group's commander told The Associated Press....
NEW YORK (AP) -- After being roughed over by online critics for his performance moderating back-to-back live interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Matt Lauer made a knowing reference during an interview with comic Dana Carvey on Thursday....
The sainthood conferred by Pope Francis on Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Sept. 4 here in the Vatican, was greeted with great enthusiasm and applause across the globe, including in India but especially in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, the capital of eastern India’s West Bengal state, that the Albania-born nun adopted as her home town. A large Indian government delegation, including Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Sushma Swaraj and West Bengal state Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, was in St. Peter’s Square where the Pope declared Mother Teresa a Saint. Mmany of the delegation members were not Christians, a proof of the universal appeal and admiration that Mother Teresa enjoys among people of other faiths. Among the estimated 120,000 people from across the world present at the canonization ceremony was Mr. Namit Bajoria, a leading entrepreneur, philanthropist and also the Designate Honorary Consul of the Republic of Macedonia in Kolkata. ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the participants in an international interreligious congress on Thursday in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace. Organized by the Instituto del Diálogo Interreligioso – the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue of Argentina, in partnership with the Organization for American States and with the collaboration of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, the symposium opened Wednesday, September 7th, at the Pontifical Augustinianum Institute to explore the theme: América en diálogo – Nuestra casa común – “America in Dialogue: our common home”.The two-day gathering is the first of its kind for the organizations involved, and its working sessions focused on the Holy Father’s encyclical letter, Laudato si’.Click below to hear our report In remarks prepared for the occasion, Pope Francis said, “The world looks constantly to us, believers, to see what our att...
