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Tension prevailed at Tarapet in the city on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday when the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) authorities faced resistance from the clergy and lay people for demolishing a portion of the Roman Catholic church St. Peter's Cathedral as part of the road-widening project. The church was built more than 100 years ago and is of undisputed cultural and artistic value.Hundreds of Catholics, supported by opposition parties, staged a protest at the church on Monday morning even as VMC staff returned to the site to complete the demolition process. They wondered why the VMC failed to serve a notice on church authorities before embarking on pulling down the structure.Sources said VMC officials and workers came with earth-movers and demolished a wall and a complex adjacent to the church. The Catholic fraternity opposed the move arguing that the alignment of the road should have been changed as the religious structure, which was built in 1882, has a h...
By Michael SwanTORONTO (CNS) -- Cardinal MarcOuellet, whose writings were once strongly identified with resistance to anychange to the ban on Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics,has given a ringing endorsement to "Amoris Laetitia," the apostolicexhortation by Pope Francis that sums up two synods on the family."In all honesty, I thinkthat controversies around 'Amoris Laetitia' are understandable," Cardinal Ouellet,head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, told about 2,000 Knights ofColumbus gathered in Toronto for their annual convention.But Cardinal Oullet said ratherthan demand clarifications, his audience should reread the 250-page documentwith its 400 footnotes."It is a document worthreading and re-reading slowly," he said. "Especially Chapter 4 onlove."As the 2015 Synod of Bishops onthe family approached, Cardinal Ouellet re-published and updated his 2007 book,"Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of Marriage and the Family forthe New Evangelization...
By ASSISI, Italy (CNS) -- Celebrating how God's mercy has been experiencedfor 800 years in a tiny stone church in Assisi, Pope Francis said people needto experience God's forgiveness and start learning how to forgive others."Too many people are caught up in resentment and harborhatred because they are incapable of forgiving. They ruin their own lives andthe lives of those around them rather than finding the joy of serenity andpeace," the pope said Aug. 4 during an afternoon visit to the Basilica ofSt. Mary of the Angels.Before speaking about the importance of confession andforgiveness, Pope Francis set a bouquet of red and white roses on the altar andprayed silently for 10 minutes in the Portiuncola, a stone chapel in the middleof the basilica.The abandoned ninth-century Benedictine chapel was entrustedto St. Francis of Assisi in the early 1200s. When St. Francis felt God callinghim to rebuild the church, he first thought he meant the little chapel.St. Francis restored the chapel in...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A flight delay stranded the Nigeria men's soccer team in the United States on the same day the club was set to play its first game in the Olympic Games....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The latest on the prosecution of a Chicago police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald (all times local):...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- After-school religious clubs appear to be the next venture of a national group that sought to install a statue of Satan outside two state capitols to protest Christian monuments on public grounds....
REIDSVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- The suspect in a deadly Florida shooting evaded capture for decades in a mundane manner, according to authorities and friends: He got married, settled in this quiet town and ran a wallpaper store....
LONDON (AP) -- A Norwegian-Somali teenager went on a knife rampage through London's Russell Square, a hub for students and tourists, fatally stabbing an American woman and injuring five other people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan reaffirmed his support for Donald Trump Thursday in his first comments since the GOP presidential nominee declined to endorse the speaker in an upcoming Republican primary....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with participants in the Dominican General Chapter on Thursday ahead of his afternoon visit to Assisi, speaking to them about the need to incarnate the Gospel through preaching, witness, and charity.The audience with Pope Francis concludes the General Chapter marking 800 years since the founding of the Order of Preachers by St. Dominic.Listen to Devin Watkins' report: Beginning with a joke about his day’s activities, Pope Francis laughingly said his day could be called “A Jesuit among Friars”, since it saw him meet with the spiritual children of the contemporaries St. Dominic and St. Francis.Putting jokes aside, the Holy Father got to the heart of the matter, speaking to the Dominicans gathered about the need to incarnate the Gospel through preaching, witness, and charity.He said it was God who inspired St. Dominic to found the Order of Preachers and put preaching at the heart of their mission, just as Jesus had taught hi...
