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Vatican City, Sep 1, 2016 / 02:32 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Catholic and Orthodox worlds unite to celebrate a day of prayer for the care of creation, the Vatican’s social justice head is offering a reminder that the human person must be at the center of efforts to better the environment.“It's very simple: the core of development is the human person. And that's why Pope Benedict referred to development as a vocation. It's a vocation that we people have and that basically is a spiritual reference,” Cardinal Turkson told CNA Sept. 1.“It's so important that we get a very clear perspective about what we're doing, about the dignity of people, about their own relationship and dignity, (and) relation with God,” he said.The cardinal stressed that it’s especially important to remember that “in rendering service in any country to anybody, we seek to improve upon the image of God that already exists in the person.”Cardinal Tu...
Lincoln, Neb., Sep 1, 2016 / 04:11 pm (CNA).- The Diocese of Lincoln held its first “Sacred Music Clinic” Aug. 27 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.The event was sponsored by the diocesan liturgical commission at the suggestion of Bishop James Conley.The turnout of diocesan musicians – cantors, adult or youth choir directors, singers, organists and other instrumentalists – far exceeded organizers’ expectations. A total of 230 people attended from 59 parishes in the Diocese of Lincoln and two parishes from the Archdiocese of Omaha.“We were overjoyed with the turnout,” said Father Daniel Rayer, chancellor and chairman of the diocesan liturgical commission. “It far exceeded our expectations. We maxed out the facility so we are thankful to the participants for bearing with cramped spaces.”He said that several members of the diocesan commission who have attended the annual Catholic Mus...
Denver, Colo., Sep 1, 2016 / 04:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The American reporter who first brought news of Mother Teresa’s work to an international audience still remembers the day in 1966 when he met the nun serving the poor in the slums of Calcutta.“Certainly she totally deserves to be a saint. In my eyes, she was a saint her entire life,” retired Associated Press reporter Joe McGowan, Jr. told CNA. “She was so humble and yet so pleasant.”McGowan, 85, was an AP reporter for 42 years who covered wars, revolutions, and earthquakes.In 1966, he was an AP bureau chief with a huge territory – India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Ceylon, and the Maldives Islands.Trying to dig up more stories, he was speaking with a newspaper editor in Calcutta about anything unusual or ignored.“He finally said ‘Well, there’s that funny little nun who goes around collecting dying people.’  And I knew I had a story,” said McGowan.The repor...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) ? Not many people know that Blessed Teresa of Kolkata's first visit tothe United States was a trip to Las Vegas -- in 1960, when the Strip was stillmobbed-up.Shedidn't go to cleanse the casinos of their corruption. She went to speak at theconvention of the National Council of Catholic Women.Thattidbit is one of an untold number of facts and perspectives that can be gleanedfrom examining the Mother Teresa Collection that resides within the archives atThe Catholic University of America.Thecollection has a copy of Mother Teresa's 1979 Nobel Peace Prize acceptancespeech, autographed by the founder of the Missionaries of Charity herself.There are also two copies of the Marvel Comics illustrated biography of herlife, issued in 1983, one year after Marvel successfully published a comic-bookbiography of St. John Paul II.There also are, in a burlap bag, 2,000 tiny coins bearing Mother Teresa's likenessstruck for the United Nation...
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(Vatican Radio)  The program for Pope’s Francis’ visit to the Italian hilltop town of Assisi was released in the Vatican on Thursday. During his one-day visit the Pope will be taking part in the closing of an interreligious World Day of Prayer for Peace, organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio. His latest pilgrimage to Assisi marks the 30th anniversary of the First World Day of Prayer for Peace that St. John Paul convened in the birthplace of St. Francis, back in 1986.Pope Francis’ presence at the interreligious prayer summit on September 20th will mark his second visit to the birthplace of his namesake in less than two months. Listen to the report by Susy Hodges:  Please see details of his programme below:10.30 Departure from Vatican City’s Helicopter Pad11.05 Landing at Assisi’s Migaghelli Sports Field near the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels.Pope Francis will be greeted by Bishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi and the local ...
(Vatican Radio) Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says a new cease-fire between government forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine is holding, after months of clashes which included the deadliest fighting in a year. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Poroshenko said in a statement Thursday that his forces had not seen any fighting with Russian-backed separatists in the prevous 12 hours. The parties in the conflict, which has claimed more than 9,500 lives, earlier agreed to stop fighting by September 1, which is the first day of school in Ukraine.Media of pro-Russian rebels confirmed the reports. Yet the road towards a new ceasefire hasn't been easy. Poroshenko said in separate remarks that more than a dozen Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and nearly a hundred wounded in what he called Russian shelling in recent weeks. ANGRY AT PUTINHe accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of seeking to destabilize Ukraine, which just celebrated...
The Venezuelan opposition coalition is mustering and coordinating supporters for a giant rally which they`re ominously dubbing....Takeover of Caracas.  Listen to the report by James Blears:  Electoral Authorities in Venezuela conclude a Referendum obliging a fresh Presidential Election can`t be done by January 10th.  So even if the overall groundswell vote rumbled against Nicolas Maduro, his Vice President would step in his shoes and limp to the end of the proscribed term, due to expire in 2019. Weary of playing by pre-ordained rules, the Opposition are today taking to the streets of the Capitol en masse.  The Government describes this as an obvious attempted Coup.  President Maduro is vowing an overwhelming response with counter rallies,  and to also respond with riot police. Many shops and businesses are shuttered and shut, fearing a showdown.  Opposition  Leader Henrique Capriles is calling for a measured and peaceful protest, a...
(Vatican Radio) “Praying for creation or praying with creation?” that was the question posed by the preacher of the Papal Household, Fr Raniero Cantalamessa at Vespers on Thursday evening.Against the majestic backdrop of St Peter’s Basilica and with Pope Francis looking on, Fr Cantalamessa told those present that “God did not program creation as if it were a clock or a computer in which every movement is programmed from the beginning, except, he added,  maybe for some periodic updates.”The Papal Preacher underlined that the primary duty of human beings toward creation was to lend it a voice, adding 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.He also referred to the Holy Father’s encyclical on the environment Laudato Si which looks at the relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet and as...
Washington D.C., Sep 1, 2016 / 11:15 am (CNA).- Billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations sought to use Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. to influence the 2016 elections and cultivate influence within the Catholic Church, according to leaked documents attributed to the major grant makers.The documents said $650,000 in funds were committed for the foundations’ grantees PICO Network and Faith in Public Life to respond to the papal visit. The foundations said they “placed a bet” in early 2015 that the grantees would “be able to make the most of his trip.”“In order to seize this moment, we will support PICO’s organizing activities to engage the Pope on economic and racial justice issues,” said the documents.The documents, published on the site DCLeaks.com, appear to be May 2015 and October 2015 board meeting books of the foundations’ U.S. Programs division and a February 9, 2016 memo on the U.S. Programs’ Opp...
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