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Vatican City, Aug 15, 2016 / 03:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis marked the feast of the Assumption of Mary by praying for the dozens of people massacred over the weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and decrying the “shameful silence” which surround these attacks.“To the Queen of Peace, whom we contemplate today in heavenly glory, I wish to entrust once again the anxieties and sufferings of the people who, in many parts of the world, are innocent victims of persistent conflict,” the Pope said during Monday's Angelus address.Saturday's attacks in the DRC's North Kivu province have long been “perpetuated in shameful silence, without even drawing our attention,” he said, and its victims include the “many innocent people who have no influence on global opinion.”“May Mary obtain for everyone sentiments of understanding, and a desire for harmony!”At least 36 civilians were killed late Saturday durin...
San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug 15, 2016 / 05:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his role as Vicar General, Monsignor Ricardo Urioste was one of the closest collaborators of Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador who was martyred for the faith in 1980 and beatified just this past year.And this monsignor has some stories to tell.Among the most fascinating involve details surrounding the day Romero was killed, what the late archbishop really thought about the controversial and problematic Liberation Theology, and the fact that the martyr’s insides hadn’t decomposed when they were exhumed three years after his death.Archbishop Romero was brutally killed while celebrating Mass on March 24, 1980 – a time when El Salvador was on the brink of civil war. In February 2015, Pope Francis officially recognized his death as having been for hatred of the faith and gave the green light for his beatification.Msgr. Urioste, who currently heads up the Archbishop Romero Foundation, said...
Paris, France, Aug 15, 2016 / 12:32 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Following the wave of Islamist terror attacks that have bloodied France since last year, the country’s bishops have decided to offer all Masses on the Feast of the Assumption for France.In an Aug. 1 communique, the president of the French Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille, noted how the Aug. 15 Solemnity of the Assumption has always held “a special place” in the heart of Catholics.“In this celebration of hope, we suggest that the general intercessions of the Mass that day mention this intention,” he said, and asked that at noon sharp, “the bells of our churches sound” in unison.“May God bless our country in the trials that she is enduring,” the archbishop said, referring to the recent terrorist attacks that have crippled the nation.From the Jan. 7, 2015 slaughter of 12 journalists at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Philippe Vaillancourt, PresenceBy Philippe VaillancourtQUEBEC CITY (CNS) -- For Father Gaston Ndaleghana Mumbere,the feast of the Assumption represents his hope for better tomorrows for Congo.In his recently published book, this 35-year-oldAssumptionist priest describes the violence that plagues his home country. Butmostly, he writes to allow a people used to crying from under the rubble ofchaos to speak once again.Father Mumbere is from North Kivu, a Congolese provincethat, for 20 years, has been at the heart of a conflict that has killed up to 8million people in the East African nation.Sent to Quebec City by his religious order in 2009 to studytheology, he eventually took up writing to tell of the Congolese drama. His French-languagebook, "La cloche ne sonnera plus a l'eglise de Butembo-Beni" ("TheBell Won't Ring Anymore at Butembo-Beni's Church"), is written like aseries of letters addressed to his Aunt Assumpta, a fictitious name that servestwo purposes: to prot...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, ReutersBy MILWAUKEE(CNS) -- Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee called the violence thatbroke out in the city as part of protests over the fatal police shooting of anAfrican-American man "a self-inflicted wound.""Violenceis never tolerated. Protests are certainly the right of every American, butviolence such as looting, burning is never tolerated," Archbishop Listecki toldthe Catholic Herald in an Aug. 15 telephone interview. "It only creates aself-inflicted wound on the community."Protestersburned down six businesses in the city, including a gas station, and alsotorched a police car late Aug. 13 in response to the police shooting ofSylville K. Smith as he fled a traffic stop earlier that day.Policesaid Smith, 23, had a gun in his hand and had refused police orders to drop theweapon.FatherTimothy L. Kitzke, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's vicar general for urbanministry, told the Catholic Herald Aug. 15 that what happened Aug. 13 could belo...
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