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Vatican City, Sep 9, 2016 / 03:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Church unity is endangered especially by certain tactics of division favored by the devil himself, Pope Francis told bishops of mission territories on Friday.“Division is the weapon the devil employs most to destroy the Church from within,” the Pope said Sept. 9.“He has two weapons, but the main one is division: the other is money. The devil enters through our pockets and destroys with the tongue, with idle chatter that divides, and the habit of gossiping is a habit of ‘terrorism’.”“The gossip is a ‘terrorist’ who throws a grenade – chatter – in order to destroy,” he added. “Please, fight against division, because it is one of the weapons that the devil uses to destroy the local Church and the universal Church.”The Pope addressed his remarks to the participants in a seminar for bishops of mission territories which was held in Clementine Hall of t...
Boston, Mass., Sep 9, 2016 / 05:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Capuchin keepers of the relics of the late mystic Padre Pio are sending the saint’s heart to Boston for his feast day."I'm very excited to announce that the Capuchin Friars who run the Shrine of St. Padre Pio have offered to come to Boston with the heart of Padre Pio for his feast day this year," Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston announced in a Sept. 2 post on his blog."This is the first time any major relic of Padre Pio has left Italy, and we are so pleased that they have offered to come to Boston for this historic visit. We know that many people throughout our country have a great devotion to Padre Pio, so the friars have made this possible especially for those who are not able to travel to San Giovanni Rotondo in Italy to venerate his relics and pray for his intercession," he added.The relic will be in the Boston area from Sept. 21 through his feast day, Sept. 23. It will be the only stop...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Joe WoolheadBy Beth GriffinMAMARONECK, N.Y. (CNS) -- Fifteen years after theSept. 11, 2001, attacks decimated the twin towersin lower Manhattan, the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center rises out of theground, a palpable symbol of triumph and optimism. The tallest skyscraper inthe Western Hemisphere is the soaring, storied, centerpiece of a 16-acre complexthat includes eight other major structures. "It's a secular site encodedwith multiple symbols of faith, hope and love," said Judith Dupre, author of therecently published "One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building." Thevolume is a detailed, illustrated exploration of the political, structural andaesthetic forces that clashed, combined and coalesced before the building openedin October 2014.Dupre, a Catholic raised inRhode Island and an architectural historian and best-selling author of lushlyillustrated works of narrative non-fiction, spoke to Catholic News Service Aug.30 at her home in Mamaroneck, a suburb no...
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- The Navy gave a first look inside the stealthy and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer on Friday during the ship's first port stop at a Rhode Island naval station....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An in-depth report of the San Bernardino terror attack released Friday revealed new details about the chaotic massacre, including an effort to stop the shooters and how the husband and wife who carried them out died in a police shootout....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A U.S. lawmaker accused Yosemite National Park of breaking federal law by adding 400 acres for a wildlife preserve without clearing it through Congress, but federal officials said Friday that he's misinterpreting the law....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Clinton said Friday it was time for a "rethinking" of America's strategy for North Korea following the regime's latest test of a nuclear weapon. Donald Trump's campaign chief, meanwhile, refused to outline the Republican presidential candidate's plans for defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Seven current and former San Francisco Bay Area police officers will be charged in a sexual misconduct scandal involving a teenager who was later arrested in Florida in an unrelated assault case, a prosecutor said Friday....
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) -- The federal government stepped into the fight over the Dakota Access oil pipeline Friday, ordering work to stop on one segment of the project in North Dakota and asking the Texas-based company building it to "voluntarily pause" action on a wider span that an American Indian tribe says holds sacred artifacts....
