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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed sadness over the death of Polish Cardinal Franciszek Macharski who died earlier Tuesday after an ilness at age 89. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: With pictures and somber yet hopefull music Polish media have begun mourning Cardinal Macharski. He held one of the top positions in Poland's Catholic church in an difficult era when the church played a leading role in opposing Communism. Poles believe that those actions helped to eventually end the Communist regime's hold on power. The popular Macharski served for many years as archbishop of Krakow, inheriting the position opened by the election of then Pope John Paul II.He was appointed Krakow archbishop in 1978 by John Paul and served in that position until 2005. He retired two months after John Paul died after a 27-year pontificate. POPE IN "PAIN" From the Vatican, Pope Francis wrote that he received the news of Macharski's death...
Rome, Italy, Aug 2, 2016 / 10:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Italian bishops' conference has issued an advisory to pilgrims, after a young Italian girl died of meningitis while she was returning home from World Youth Day in Poland.The Italian publication Corriere della Sera identifies the girl as Susanna Rufi, 19, who died Monday in Vienna, Austria, as she was returning home to Italy.“She had been preparing for WYD for a year,” recounted Fr. Alessandro, the parish priest of her local Saint Polycarp parish in Rome, according to Corriere della Sera. “She was a wonderful girl, very active in the parish,” he said, adding that she got good grades, and was active in the choir.Rufi had reported feeling ill on Sunday evening, after arriving in Vienna with some 50 young people from the parishes of Saint Polycarp and Our Lady of Good Counsel, reports the Italian agency.Meningitis is an infection-based inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
New York City, N.Y., Aug 2, 2016 / 01:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Today's feast of Our Lady of the Angels of Porziuncola and its associated indulgence is a way to focus on the importance of Mary and the Franciscan tradition in the Church, said one friar.The Aug. 2 feast is found in the Franciscan tradition, and marks the dedication of the parish church, called Porziuncola or “little portion,” which is one of those Italy's St. Francis of Assisi rebuilt in obedience to Christ's command to “rebuild my church.”“The Porziuncola is at the heart of the Franciscan journey,” Father David Convertino, the development director for the Holy Name Province of the Observant Franciscans, told CNA.“For Francis, it was his most beloved place. He lived near it with the early followers … and he loved the Porziuncola, as it was part of his devotion to Our Lady.”The Catholic Church teaches that after a sin is forgiven, an unhealthy attachment ...
By Junno Arocho EstevesKRAKOW, Poland (CNS) -- The memory and pain of the world'ssilence during the Shoah should be a call to action for Jews to defend those sufferingpersecution today, especially Christians, said the chief rabbi of Poland. While Jews have experienced expulsions and holocausts forthe past 2,000 years, today there "are many more attacks on Christians -- justbecause they are Christians -- than on Jews," Rabbi Michael Schudrich toldCatholic News Service July 28."What it means to me is that the pain that we Jewsstill feel because ofthe overwhelming silence of the world -- not everyone but the majority weresilent -- during the Shoah, meansthat we have to be the first ones to step up to the plate. We have to be the first ones to yelland scream and say, 'No,'" he said. The rabbi spoke on the eve of Pope Francis' visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. Usedby the Nazis from 1940 to 1945, the camp was the Nazi's largest and consistedof three parts: Auschwitz I, whe...
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PARIS (AP) -- French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France. But now they are speaking out - and being called on to take a larger role in combatting the threat from Islamist extremists....
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation's largest police force, after a tenure in which he received credit for keeping crime down and navigated tension between police and minority communities....
