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IMAGE: CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis ReviewBy Jennifer BrinkerST.LOUIS (CNS) -- Since its release in the United States July 6, Pokemon Go hasquickly become a cultural phenomenon. In the first week, the mobile gameattracted nearly 21 million users, according to data from Survey Monkey, makingit the most popular app in U.S. history.As aresult, the nature of the game is driving swarms of players to unsuspectingchurches, businesses and other landmarks. But as it grows in popularity,priests, youth groups and others are quickly finding opportunities toevangelize to young people.Pokemon Go uses augmented reality, areal-world environment that incorporates computer-generated elements, such asGPS data, sound and video. Users move around in the real world as they collecttiny virtual creatures called Pokemon -- short for pocket monsters. The mobile app isbased on the popular franchise that began with several Nintendo games in the1990s.Churches, businesses and other landmarkshave been desig...
LONDON (AP) -- International Olympic officials will "explore the legal options'" for a potential total ban on Russia from the games in Rio de Janeiro, and are taking measures to punish athletes and officials involved in the state-run doping conspiracy....
LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi (AP) -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by truck and crane, to a sanctuary for the threatened species....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Turkish government on Tuesday escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims have ties to the alleged coup plotters, firing nearly 24,000 teachers and Interior Ministry employees across the country and demanding the resignations of another 1,577 university deans....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Donald Trump's campaign on Tuesday tried to brush off charges of plagiarism and recover quickly from an unforced stumble as he advanced within steps of officially seizing the Republican nomination for president....
(Vatican Radio) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, has told the United Nations the trafficking of children is “abominable.”“While human trafficking always exploits the vulnerable, the trafficking of children and youth exploits those most vulnerable of all, something that not only exposes the evil of trafficking in all its repulsive ugliness but something that likewise makes abundantly clear the urgent call for everyone to rise up to protect children, youth and everyone from those who would enslave and dehumanize them in these ways,” he said. The full text of the intervention is below Elimination The Trafficking Of Children And YouthBy H. E. Archbishop Bernardito AuzaApostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United NationsRemarks of Archbishop Bernardito AuzaApostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United NationsEliminating the Trafficking of Chil...
(Vatican Radio) Theologians and experts on Christianity in China are meeting in Hong Kong this week for an international conference examining the history of ecumenical and interfaith relations across the region.The 10th annual conference of the ‘Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network’ will also be exploring broader issues of dialogue between faith and culture in China, as well as looking at the impressive growth rates of religious faith in other Asian countries too.The encounter, entitled ‘Christianity and Religions in China: Past, Present and Future’ runs from July 20th to 24th. Among the organisers is Georgetown University Professor Gerard Mannion, founding chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations Network. He sat down with Philippa Hitchen to talk about the importance of Asia’s ecumenical and interfaith context for the whole of the Catholic world today…Listen: Mannion notes that China ranks 7th in the wor...
Gen 18:20-32, Col 2:12-14, Lk 11:1-13A little boy was standing on the banks of the Mississippi River waving and shouting at a steamboat that was going by. He was beckoning the steamboat to come to shore. A stranger came by and said, "That's foolish young man. The boat will never come ashore because of your request. The captain is too busy to notice your waving and shouting." Just then the boat turned and headed for shore. The little boy grinned and said to the stranger, "The captain is my daddy." The captain of the universe is our Abba. He pays attention to our petitions because he loves us. The first words in the Lord's Prayer encourage us to believe in the affectionate intimacy of the Lord of the universe, but that doesn't mean we should take God for granted.Introduction: The main themes of today’s Scripture readings are the power of intercessory prayer, the Our Father as the ideal prayer, and the necessity for persistence and persever...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram to the Master General of the Order of Preachers – the Dominicans – who are currently holding the General Chapter of Priors Provincial in the central Italian city of Bologna.The General Chapter of Priors General is the second of three specific kinds of General Chapters, each being held at three-year intervals for a 9-year cycle that ends with the election of a new Master General. The sequence begins with General Chapter of delegates – called “diffinitors” in Dominican parlance; then the General Chapter of Priors Provincial; and then, the Elective General Chapter.This General Chapter of Priors Provincial is taking place in the context of the 800th anniversary of the confirmation of the Order under Pope Honorius III, and in the middle of the Jubilee Year of Mercy.In his telegram, signed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis expresses the hope that all Dominicans find the spiritua...
