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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited the Ground Zero memorial at the World Trade Center in New York City on Friday, September 25, 2015. Below, please find the full text of the remarks the Holy Father prepared for the occasion, and delivered to a special gathering of leaders from different religions and traditions of faith.************************************************ I feel many different emotions standing here at Ground Zero, where thousands of lives were taken in a senseless act of destruction. Here grief is palpable. The water we see flowing towards that empty pit reminds us of all those lives which fell prey to those who think that destruction, tearing down, is the only way to settle conflicts. It is the silent cry of those who were victims of a mindset which knows only violence, hatred and revenge. A mindset which can only cause pain, suffering, destruction and tears.The flowing water is also a symbol of our tears. Tears at so much devastation and ruin, past and prese...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis administered the Sacrament of Confirmation on a seriously ill young man before his Saturday Jubilee Audience in St. Peter’s Square.16-year-old Giuseppe Chiolo, a patient of the oncological department of the Meyer Hospital in Florence, travelled to the Vatican on Saturday morning aboard an ambulance.The Pope embraced Giuseppe before confirming him, and gifted him with a rosary as he asked the boy not to forget to pray for him.Giuseppe had recently written a letter to Pope Francis in which he revealed his strong desire to meet with the Pope; he was immediately invited to come to the Vatican.The Pope also had words of encouragement and comfort for Giuseppe’s parents and for his sister and aunt who were present in the Square together with the Chaplain of the Meyer Hospital and with the vice-director of the local Florentine Caritas office. He also thanked the three volunteers of Mercy who accompanied Giuseppe on his journey to Rome.During ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited the Ground Zero memorial at the World Trade Center in New York on September 25th, 2015. During the course of his visit to the memorial site, the Holy Father offered a prayer of remembrance for the nearly 3 thousand victims of the attacks committed by terrorists belonging to the Islamic Al Qaeda terror network. Click below to hear our retrospective report “God of peace,” the Holy Father prayed, “bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the earth.”Pope Francis set a white rose at the edge of one of the two enormous infinity pools, around which the names of those who died in the attacks are etched in stone.He met the family members of some of the victims, including surviving members of the families of some of the hundreds of first responders who perished in their efforts to rescue the innocent and succor the injured."In his address to a gat...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Over pizza and cupcakes, Jose Nunez implored a crowd of University of Iowa students to pull out their smartphones and start sharing with online friends their personal reasons for backing Hillary Clinton for president....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian government warplanes bombarded rebel-held areas around the country Saturday while insurgents shelled government-held neighborhoods in violence that left dozens killed or wounded hours after a new U.S.-Russia agreement was reached to try and reduce violence in the war-torn country....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Behind the barbed wire, the white minivan's busted windows and crumpled roof hint at its story. But forklifted to this windblown spot on the John F. Kennedy International Airport tarmac, between a decommissioned 727 and an aircraft hangar, it's doubtful passing drivers notice it at all....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner became a registered sex offender for life last Tuesday, he joined a nationwide list of registered sex criminals that has grown dramatically in recent years to more than 800,000....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who shot President Ronald Reagan is scheduled to leave a Washington mental hospital for good on Saturday, more than 35 years after the shooting. A federal judge ruled in late July that the 61-year-old John Hinckley Jr. is not a danger to himself or the public and can live full-time at his mother's home in Williamsburg, Virginia....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton verbally banished half of Donald Trump's backers to a "basket of deplorables," and the Republican presidential nominee quickly pounced, saying Saturday she had smeared many Americans and would pay a heavy political price....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis presided over Saturday’s audience for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, during which he reflected on the redemption of mankind from the slavery of sin.In his catechesis, delivered to the crowds in St Peter’s Square, the Pope called those who suffer to turn to the crucified Jesus.He also reminded the faithful that God’s mercy is greater than our weaknesses and sins.Please find the official English language synthesis of Pope Francis’ catechesis:Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy, we reflect today on the word “redemption”: God has redeemed all humanity, liberating us by the precious blood of his Son Jesus (1 Pet 1:18-21). How many ways we can be enslaved by false freedom; how much we need God to truly free us. We are called to a new life, raised to the dignity of children of God. Jesus, the sinless Lamb of God, was sacrificed for us, that we might receive forg...
