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An 11-person delegation from Pakistan is participating in next week’s World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, July 25 to 31. The group headed by Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore is leaving on Sunday. The delegation includes Pervez Roderick, secretary of the National Association of Catholic Youth, four priests and five youth leaders. Roderick told AsiaNews that one of the boys will be holding the Pakistani flag at opening ceremony, another will share the experience of being a youth in Pakistan during a session, while a priest from Faisalabad diocese will be one of those concelebrating at the Pope’s concluding mass. The Pope is joining the World Youth Day July 27-31.“I am ready for a new experience of life and excited to meet pilgrims and new friends from all over the world,” said Viviana Natalie Rodrigues, a leader of a youth group at Karachi’s St Lawrence Church, who is participating in a World You...
Vatican City, Jul 22, 2016 / 06:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid modern challenges emerging from a culture which provides increasingly easier access to outside distractions, Pope Francis has issued new norms for women’s cloistered communities, which place a special emphasis on prayer and the centralization of communities. “Dear contemplative sisters, without you what would the Church be like, or those living on the fringes of humanity and ministering in the outposts of evangelization?” the Pope said in a new Apostolic Constitution, published July 22. The Church, he said, “greatly esteems your life of complete self-giving. The Church counts on your prayers and on your self-sacrifice to bring today’s men and women to the good news of the Gospel. The Church needs you!” However, he also cautioned that the “silent and recollected peace of mind and heart” lived in contemplative live “can meet with subtle temptations.”&...
IMAGE: By Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis goes to Poland to meet with an expected 2 millionyoung people from around the world, he's going with a firm idea of the dreams,fears and challenges so many of them face.Heknows what lies inside the hearts and minds of today's youth, not because of anythird-party polling or sophisticated survey, but because Pope Francis practiceswhat he's called an "apostolate of the ear." Ittakes patience and grace, he told disadvantaged university students in Rome inJune, to truly listen to what others have to say -- a call he repeated duringhis Angelus address this month, warning that people's hectic lives were threatening an alreadyhobbled ability to listen.Aspope, a busyministry that could easily lead to isolation or overscheduling, he has workedhard to make the time to listen to people of all backgrounds in public andprivate settings. And he has often broken with papal protocol to get anunfiltered look at what today's youth think and ...
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an effort to help contemplativewomen religious renew their life and mission in the church and the world, PopeFrancis issued a series of new rulings dealing with formation, assets, prayerlife, authority and autonomy.The new rulings include a mandate that "initially,all monasteries are to be part of a federation" based on "an affinityof spirit and traditions" with the aim of facilitating formation andmeeting needs through sharing assets and exchanging members. Monasteries votingfor an exception from joining a federation will need Vatican approval.All institutes of contemplative women religious will needto revise or update their constitutions or rules so as to implement the newnorms and have those changes approved by the Holy See.Titled "Vultum Dei Quaerere" (Seeking the faceof God), the document focuses on the life of contemplative women religious.Dated June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, it was released by the Vat...
NEW YORK (AP) -- He's led the bad-boy rock band Aerosmith for decades, written a book, learned to parasail, and is the father of four children. But Steven Tyler had at least one more goal before hitting 70: his first solo album....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The former mistress of one-time Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says she "will always love" him and they're "great co-parents" to their 8-year-old daughter....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Facing hotel bills running into the thousands of dollars, some delegates to the Democratic National Convention are planning to do like college students on spring break and squeeze as many people into a room as they can....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- As Cleveland breathes a sigh of relief after protests during the Republican convention came and went without major chaos, eyes now turn to Philadelphia. As the nation's fifth largest city, it provides a bigger stage for bigger protests over a much larger area....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced Friday on his website that he plans to run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Hillary Clinton moved closer to introducing her running mate Friday, snatching attention from newly crowned Republican nominee Donald Trump just hours after he closed out his convention with a fiery and foreboding turn at the podium....
