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Vatican City, Sep 21, 2016 / 03:03 pm (CNA).- A region of Cameroon that traditionally believed women to have no value now sees them as equal to men, thanks to a lay Catholic apostolate in the area.“Before the coming of the Focolare Movement, the women had no say, but the movement has taught us a lot of things,” said Nicasius Nguazong, who is the Fon – similar to a king – of the Cameroonian chiefdom of Nwangong.Fon Nicasius and about 40 other pilgrims, including other heads of northwest Cameroonian clans, travelled to Rome to mark the 50th anniversary of the Focolare Movement first coming to the Bangwa people.They attended the Pope’s Wednesday General Audience, and several met with Pope Francis Sept. 21.Mafue Christina Fontem – whose role is similar to a queen – testified at a press conference afterward that her father, after meeting the founder of the Focolare Movement, a woman named Chiara Lubich, carried out a campaign for the higher educa...
Washington D.C., Sep 21, 2016 / 04:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Modern-day imperialism. Harmful to women. A failed promise. These are the ways that leading Catholic scholars described contraception – and said the Church is right to warn against it.“What women have discovered over the past 48 years is that we don’t have a design flaw. Being a woman is good enough, and it’s a wonderful thing,” said Mary Rice Hasson, J.D., director of the Catholic Women’s Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.Hasson was among a group of more than 500 Catholic scholars who signed a document supporting Church teaching against contraception, as expressed in Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae.The document, entitled “Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality,” was released at a Sept. 20 press conference at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.It responded to a statement opposing Church te...
Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 21, 2016 / 04:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the Mexican branch of the “hacktivist” group Anonymous reported that the Archdiocese of Mexico had let off an alleged priest who confessed to having molested 30 girls, the Church in Mexico has denied that the priest even exists, calling the Anonymous report “irresponsible and malicious.”On Sept. 8 Anonymous Mexico claimed that the Archdiocese of Mexico “decided to let off from any crime and punishment José Ataulfo García, the priest who allegedly confessed to raping more than 30 indigenous girls in the state of Oaxaca.”The report by the hackers group was picked up this weekend by several Spanish-language newspapers, and this week by some English media.Religión Digital posted an article with the headline “Priest with HIV who confessed to molesting 30 girls let off”, but it has since been deleted.SIAME, the communications office of the Archdiocese o...
By TOTOWA,N.J. (CNS) -- Retired Archbishop Peter L. Gerety of Newark died Sept. 20 whilein the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor at the order's elder-carefacility in Totowa. He was 104.Plans for his funeral Mass and burial were pending.Accordingto a remembrance of Archbishop Gerety posted Sept. 21 by the Archdiocese ofNewark on its website, Archbishop Gerety was the world's oldest Catholic bishopat the time of his death. By 2007, when he was 95, he was already the oldestliving U.S. bishop.Newark Archbishop John J. Meyers in aSept. 21 statement called Archbishop Gerety "a remarkable churchmanwhose love for the people of God was always strong and ever-growing.""He served as shepherd of this great archdiocese during atime of spiritual reawakening in the years after the Second Vatican Council,and a time of deep financial difficulties," he added. "Hevery carefully led the church, her people and institutions through thosechallenges."ArchbishopGerety had been retired as head of the Ne...
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A deputy public defender in Las Vegas who defied a judge's request that she not wear a "Black Lives Matter" pin in court has become the latest voice of protest in a national debate over police brutality and race relations....
BEIRUT (AP) -- An airstrike in northern Syria killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said Wednesday, as the U.N. announced it would resume aid deliveries suspended after an attack on a convoy two days ago that killed 20 people....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- World leaders from Pakistan to Ukraine unleashed their regional grievances Wednesday, taking the stage of the U.N. General Assembly to rage against their neighbors and presenting a picture of a chaotic world consumed by intractable conflicts....
