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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis was scheduled on Thursday to visit Jasna Góra Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, to celebrate a Mass commemorating the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane is in Poland, and sent us this report: Listen: About an hour and a half outside Krakow is the monastery of Jasna Gora the most famous Marian shrine in Poland. Thousands of pilgrims come here every year to venerate the Black Madonna of Czestochowa which was reputedly painted by St. Luke the Evangelist. Many miracles have been attributed to this revered icon which has been visited in more recent times by both Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.This large monastery in the baroque style overlooks the city of Czestochowa and is home to the Pauline Friars who have been here since 1382. It even boosts its own radio station. During this World Youth Day celebration thousands of young people have being making a pilgrimage here in order to pray to Our La...
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: GOSPEL LK 12:13 - 21Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,“Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him,“Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd,“Take care to guard against all greed,for though one may be rich,one’s life does not consist of possessions.”Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do,for I do not have space to store my harvest?’And he said, ‘This is what I shall do:I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and ot...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 28, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at World Youth Day are two brothers, recently reunited.“I’m from Syria,” Yousef Astfan, 34, told CNA. “It’s been divided.”Yousef first attended World Youth Day in Madrid in 2011. Now he’s in Krakow with his brother, 25-year-old Al Astfan, a first-time attendee who loves the event.“It’s great. It’s such a great opportunity to meet people from all the world, in the name of Jesus,” Al said.Yousef explained his own thoughts about the massive Catholic youth gathering.“It gives you a very nice push for your faith, to be here to see all these Christians. Because everybody says that Europe is no more Christian,” he said.“When I come here? No, I don’t see this. I feel proud that all these Christians are here. Especially when we fight for our Christianity in Syria. Being a Christian in Syria is a curse. ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a massive overhaul of the multibillion dollar debt-collection industry on Thursday, which would restrict collectors from calling numerous times a day, require them to have more documentation on what's owed, and give people more ability to dispute their bills....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Two Holocaust survivors took to a stage at the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto this week to perform lively prewar tunes - the 91-year-old played drums and the 88-year-old was on accordion, keyboard and vocals. In the audience several elderly Christian Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust swayed and tapped their feet to songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Fourteen months after the death of a black man whose neck was broken in a police van prompted massive protests, spawned rioting and toppled the careers of Baltimore's police commissioner and a Democratic mayor poised for re-election, no one will go to jail for the death....
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) -- In little more than a week, the only living man to have shot an American president could pack his bags and leave a Washington psychiatric hospital for the last time....
PARIS (AP) -- The French prosecutors' office has identified the second man who killed a priest in a Normandy church. The office says DNA tests show he is a 19-year-old born in the eastern Vosges region of France, Abdel-Malik Nabil Petit Jean....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's top diplomat for U.S. affairs told The Associated Press Thursday that Washington "crossed the red line" and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. and South Korea hold annual war games as planned next month....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's hot out there, politically speaking, with Hillary Clinton's convention going full steam and Donald Trump refusing to stay quiet while Democrats put on their big show. Reality is sometimes getting warped in the process....
