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Vatican City, Aug 22, 2016 / 12:36 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis commended the sacrament of confession as the prime means of encountering God's mercy in his message sent Monday to Italy's National Liturgical Week, which is being held in Gubbio.In Confession “there is fulfilled the encounter with the re-creating mercy of God whence come new women and men who announce the good life of the Gospel by a life which is reconciled and reconciling,” the Pope said in a message signed by the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and sent Aug. 22 to Bishop Claudio Maniago of Castellaneta, president of Italy's Center for Liturgy.The National Liturgical Week is focusing this year on “liturgy as a place of mercy.”Pope Francis noted that this theme “helps one perceive that all the liturgy is a place where mercy is encountered and welcomed in order to be given; a place where the great mystery of reconciliation is made present, announced, cel...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- In the chapel of the first house BlessedTeresa of Kolkata established in Rome, Father BrianKolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity talks about her life, mixing the concrete and even mundane withthe spiritual and even mystical."She was very human -- she loved chocolate, she loved icecream," the priest said. At the same time, her letters to her spiritualdirectors make it clear "she's among the great mystics of thechurch," having experienced the sweetness of hearing Jesus' voice and,later, the desolation of feeling he had abandoned her."Mother Teresa was no plastic saint," said FatherKolodiejchuk, who is superior general of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers andpostulator of Blessed Teresa's sainthood cause. Mother Teresa was a "veryconcrete, feet on the ground" organizer and hands-on minister to thepoorest of the poor, he said.The priest, a native of Canada, spoke to Catholic NewsService Aug. 19 at the home Mother Teres...
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgian musician Toots Thielemans, who turned the lowly harmonica into a virtuoso jazz instrument during an illustrious career that saw him perform with such legends as Charlie Parker, has died. He was 94....
Ryan Lochte lost three major sponsors when swimsuit company Speedo USA, clothing giant Ralph Lauren and skin-care firm Syneron-Candela announced in quick succession Monday they were dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery....
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A defiant Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that he again restored the voting rights of about 13,000 felons who served their time after his previous attempt was thwarted by Republican lawmakers and the state Supreme Court....
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that he thought he had just a few weeks to live during his battle with cancer a year ago....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey vowed Monday to fight Islamic State militants at home and to "cleanse" the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding, an attack that came amid recent gains by Syrian Kurdish militia forces against the extremists in neighboring Syria....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans stepped up their attacks on Monday on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and pointed to newly released messages to allege that foreign donors to the Democratic presidential nominee's family charity got preferential treatment from her department....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican Donald Trump promised on Monday to be "fair, but firm" toward the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally, a shift in tone that raised questions on whether he's backtracking from previous pledges to push for mass deportations....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be U.S. citizens, ridiculed Mexican accents, called for Secretary of State John Kerry to be hanged and stated their readiness for a possible civil war, according to a review by The Associated Press of their postings....
