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Rome, Italy, Sep 2, 2016 / 06:29 am (CNA).- Twenty-two years ago, Mother Teresa of Calcutta quietly visited the Regina Coeli prison in Rome, and now, just days before her canonization, she has “returned” for another visit, thanks to the help of technology.The Regina Coeli prison in Rome, located not far from the Vatican, hosted an emotional encounter of detainees and two Missionaries of Charity – members of the congregation that Mother Teresa founded – who were able to bring the soon-to-be saint to life through a documentary film teaching more about her.The prison currently houses 900 detainees, but in years prior, it had come to hold some 1,200. Father Vittorio Trani, a Conventual Franciscan and prison chaplain for 38 years, knew them all. He explained to CNA that Mother Teresa visited the prison in May 1994.“She came somewhat incognito. I gave permission so they would let her in (because of the heavy security measures) but I didn't tell anyone abo...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will join dozens ofreligious leaders -- including Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ofConstantinople and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury -- andhundreds of their faithful in Assisi Sept. 20 to pray for peace.In addition to holding some private meetings with individualreligious leaders, the pope will participate in the concluding ceremonies of athree-day event sponsored by the Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio. With thetheme, "Thirst for Peace:Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue," the meeting marks the 30thanniversary of St. John Paul II's Assisi interfaith peace gathering in 1986.According to a schedule published Sept. 1 by the Vatican, the pope willbe welcomed to Assisi by Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Welby, SyrianOrthodox Patriarch IgnatiusAphrem II of Antioch, and leaders of the Muslim, Jewish and Tendai Buddhist communities. Several victims of war will join Pope Francis and the othe...
IMAGE: CNS/Junno Arocho EstevesBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A personal encounter with MotherTeresa and her work serving the poor and the dying led a young Japanese man ona journey of faith and conversion. "I was born into a Buddhist family; I didn't know aboutJesus, Christianity, Catholicism or anything," Missionaries of Charity Father Francisco Akihirotold Catholic News Service Sept. 2. "But I saw in a very visible way howJesus works through the example of Mother Teresa."The Japanese priest was one of countless Missionaries ofCharity in Rome for the canonization of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata Sept. 4. Accompanied by Missionaries of Charity Father Jayanthi Tatapudi of India, FatherAkihiro visited an exhibition on the life of Mother Teresa held at Rome's LUMSAUniversity, one of many events offered to pilgrims before the canonization Massat St. Peter's Square.The portraits and candid shots of the little nun embracingyoung children and comforting the dying was all too fa...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Playboy model Pamela Anderson has teamed with a rabbi to speak out against pornography....
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC News chief anchor Lester Holt will moderate the first scheduled presidential debate on Sept. 26, with ABC's Martha Raddatz, CNN's Anderson Cooper and Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace lined up for others....
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Brock Turner, whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University sparked national outcry, has been released from jail after serving half his term....
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(Vatican Radio) Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the street of Venezuela's capital, Caracas, rallying for and against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Listen to James Blears' report: The opposition coalition claims that more than a million people many clad in white, jammed the streets of Caracas, calling for a referendum about President Nicolas Maduro's future. But many pro-Maduro supporters in crimson shirts and caps were mobilized to counteract this. The two diametrically opposed factions, with bitterness and division simmering, had to be kept at appreciably more than arms' length apart by riot police.Everyone should be trying to avoid the ugly and violent anti government demonstrations of 2014, which killed 43 people and injured more than 800.The opposition plans to protest outside electoral authority offices on September 7th and a nationwide mobilization day seven days later.As the international price of...
Wis 9:13-18b; Phlm 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14: 25–33French artists Henri Matisse and Auguste Renoir were close friends and frequent companions despite the fact that Renoir was twenty-eight years the senior of Matisse. During the last several years of his life, Renoir was virtually crippled by arthritis; nevertheless, he painted every day, and when his fingers were no longer supple enough to hold the brush correctly, he had his wife, Alice, attach the paintbrush to his hand in order that he might continue his work. Matisse visited him daily. One day, as he watched his older friend wincing in excruciating pain with each colorful stroke, he asked, “Auguste, why do you continue to paint when you are in such agony?” Renoir’s response was immediate, “The beauty remains; the pain passes.” Passion for his art empowered Renoir to paint until the day he died; those who continue to admire the enduring beauty of his smiling portraits, his landscapes, his still live...
