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(Vatican Radio) The Message of Pope Francis for the World Day of Prayer for Creation was presented on Thursday at a Press Conference in the Holy See Press Office.Presentations were given by the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson; the Secretary for the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Bishop Brian Farrell; and the author of the book The Guardian of Mercy, Terence Ward. The full text of the prepared remarks are below Press Conference / Conferenza Stampa, 1.09.2016Presentation of the Message of Pope Francis, “Show Mercy to our Common Home” for the celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of CreationCardinal Peter K.A. Turkson Last year, following the launch of his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church would follow the good example our Orthodox brothers and sisters and institute a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.” This ...
A diocese in the northern Philippines has voiced opposition to a government plan to revive a nuclear power plant constructed in the 1970s.The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Morong in Bataan province was constructed during the term of former president Ferdinand Marcos. Costing US$.2.3 billion by the time of its completion in 1984, it remains intact though never fueled. Successive governments have not tried to operate the plant after studies revealed it was built near a major geological fault line and lies close to the then dormant Mount Pinatubo volcano."We don't want to put the lives of people in danger ... we don't want our sources of livelihood destroyed," read a pastoral letter issued by Bishop Ruperto Santos of Balanga. "The diocese has already spoken on this, and we are again making our position known," said Bishop Santos "For us, life is more precious than profit or money that will come from cheap electricity" he added and &qu...
(Vatican Radio) Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the Papal Household, urged Christians to glorify God for creation, saying "the primary duty of human beings towards creation is to lend it a voice." He said St Francis of Assisi did not pray “for creation” but instead prayed “with creation” or “because of creation.” The preacher noted that "the sovereignty of human beings over the cosmos" does not entail "the triumphalism of our species but the assumption of responsibility toward the weak, the poor, the defenseless."Fr Cantalamessa ‘s remarks came during the homily delivered by him at the Vespers in St Peter’s Basilica on September 1st for the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation, presided over by Pope Francis.Please find below an English translation of Fr. Cantalamessa’s homily:Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFMCap.PRAYING FOR CREATION OR PRAYING WITH CREATION?Homily at Ves...
Chicago, Ill., Sep 1, 2016 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A woman with a dislodged intrauterine device claims she was turned down for removal of the device at a Catholic hospital because her doctor said the procedure went against Catholic rules on contraception.However, relevant directives from the U.S. bishops do not prevent the removal of contraceptive devices.Melanie Jones, 28, slipped and fell in her bathroom, dislodging her copper IUD to the point that it needed removal. She visited her doctor at Mercy Medical Group at Dearborn Station, an off-site location of Chicago's Mercy Hospital and Medical Center.She claims her doctor said she could not remove the IUD due to the hospital’s policy of following the U.S. Catholic bishop’s ethical and religious directives for health care. Jones said the doctor also told her that every other hospital in her network followed the same restrictions.Distraught, Jones filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illin...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sep 1, 2016 / 08:35 am (CNA).- Making a living is tough in parts of Ethiopia, but a Catholic-run program aims to change that.“When we first began people said to us that we were wasting our time and we would not be successful but we were not discouraged and continued to strive. Within just a year look at what a different story it has become,” said Addisu Mutturu, a beneficiary of the program.The program, called Supporting Horn of Africa Resilience, is run under the Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Commission in association with Caritas Ethiopia, the Catholic News Agency for Africa reports.The program aims to encourage personal savings through small savings groups. It encourages young people to save 20 percent of startup capital costs for small business then helps them raise the rest of the costs. It connects them to a local microfinance institution that can train them on business plans and management based on their situation.The prog...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Calling for concrete actionsthat benefit human life and the environment, Pope Francis proposed addingthe care and protection of creation to the traditional list of corporal and spiritual worksof mercy. As a spiritual work of mercy, the pope said,care for creation requires "a grateful contemplation of God's world,"while as a corporal work, it calls for "simple daily gestures which breakwith the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness." The pope reflected on the need for anintegral ecology in Christian life in his message for the World Day of Prayerfor the Care of Creation, Sept. 1. The message, titled "Show Mercy to ourCommon Home," reflects on the day of prayer as an occasion for Christians to"reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation" and tothank God "for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to ourcare."Presenting the pope's message at a news conference Sept. 1,Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the...
Beach Boys singer Mike Love has detailed the band's brief relationship with cult leader Charles Manson in the late 1960s in a new memoir....
BERLIN (AP) -- Archaeologists in Berlin have unearthed a large number of human bones from a site close to where Nazi scientists carried out research on body parts of death camp victims sent to them by sadistic SS doctor Josef Mengele, officials said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, the president of the prominent Jesuit university in Washington announced Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago will leave a Washington psychiatric hospital to live full-time in Virginia on Sept. 10, his lawyer said Thursday....
