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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent his personal greetings to young people from throughout the world gathering in Krakow for World Youth Day and to all the people of the “beloved Polish nation” as he prepares to travel to Poland next week.The Pope’s 15th apostolic journey abroad, from 27 to 31 July, will take him to Krakow where the 31st WYD is being held, to Czestochowa and to the former Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.Please find below the full text of the Pope's video message:Dear Brothers and Sisters, The 31st World Youth Day is fast approaching. I look forward to meeting the young people from throughout the world gathered in Kraków and having the opportunity to meet the beloved Polish nation. My entire visit will be inspired by Mercy during this Jubilee Year, and by the grateful and blessed memory of Saint John Paul II, who instituted the World Youth Days and was the guide of the Polish people in its rece...
Madrid, Spain, Jul 19, 2016 / 11:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Carmen Hernandez, co-founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, died today at home in Madrid, Spain. She was 85 years old.Hernandez, along with Kiko Arguello and Fr. Mario Pezzi, made up the international team responsible for the ecclesial movement, which focuses on post-baptismal adult formation. It is estimated that the movement contains about 1 million members, in some 40,000 parish-based communities around the world.Over the last year and a half, Hernandez had suffered deteriorating health, although she was never diagnosed with a specific disease.She was last seen publically March 18 at an audience that Pope Francis granted missionary families of the Neocatechumenal Way.The Holy Father also spoke to her by phone on July 1, during an audience with Kiko Argüello and Fr. Mario Pezzi.
Würzburg, Germany, Jul 19, 2016 / 11:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In the wake of Monday night's terror attack by an Afghan Islamist on a train and pedestrians in Würzburg, the city's bishop has issued a statement of "great dismay" at the events, which left several people severely wounded."One is speechless in such a moment", Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann of Würzburg said July 19, assuring the injured and affected of his prayers and announcing the Church's support for those traumatized.Bishop Hofmann also thanked police, ambulance and pastoral emergency workers at the scene.On Monday evening a 17 year-old unaccompanied minor refugee from Afghanistan had attacked train passengers with an axe in the Bavarian city. He was shot and killed by police after wounding four people. Two of the wounded are in critical condition.The attacker reportedly shouted the phrase “Allahu akbar” during the attack, and according to the BBC, the Islamic State has r...
Oakland, Calif., Jul 19, 2016 / 12:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Free legal counsel and advice may sound too good to be true, but in the Diocese of Oakland, it’s a reality.On June 7, the Pope Francis Legal Clinic opened in Oakland, California, on the property of the Cathedral of Christ the Light.“So many people have legal problems because law is everywhere,” Tom Greerty, director and co-founder of the clinic, told CNA.“What we try and do is relieve the hardships of people.”Experienced lawyers volunteer their time to offer free legal consulting, reconciliation, and resolution services to any adult in the community. Greerty, who recently retired from his legal practice in Martinez, California, said the idea started while he was earning his master’s degree in theological studies from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. “My professor, Sister Marianne Farina, asked me to do a project which would be consistent with m...
IMAGE: CNS photo/William RieterBy Dennis SadowskiCLEVELAND (CNS) -- Sister Julie Ann Krahl knew that a cup of lemonade on a hot summer day can go a long way toward making friends.So she offered a refreshing drink from a cooler pulled along in a child-size wagon and talked with people on the streets of downtown Cleveland who were in town for the Republican National Convention July 18.She wanted to learn about their fears and hopes for the country as the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign loomed.Most people were happy to take the lemonade and talk with Sister Julie Ann, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Agnes in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and more than a dozen other women religious who were part of the fifth Nuns on the Bus tour.Nuns on the Bus, which left Madison, Wisconsin, July 11, was timed to be at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and then July 26-29 in Philadelphia, site of the Democratic National Convention. Its theme is "Mend the Gaps,...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- For those who love him, a mix of the religiously conservative and the rising middle class, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been the powerhouse who drove economic success, gave Islam a greater role and boosted regional standing. Now, Uzun Adam, or "Tall man" as he's nicknamed in Turkish, is also the hero who stared down tanks and fighter jets....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A California couple has claimed a $528.8 million share of a record Powerball jackpot from January and pledged to give much of it to charity....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The family of a woman charged with murder after her 6-week-old son drowned in a pond at a Myrtle Beach outlet mall said she was overwhelmed by the challenges of returning to work as a first-time mom and dealing with an abusive boyfriend....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A huge crane toppled off the new Tappan Zee Bridge under construction north of New York City and collapsed across the busy span it is replacing, halting traffic Tuesday afternoon on the key Hudson River crossing....
WUERZBURG, Germany (AP) -- A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker vowing "revenge on these infidels" went on an ax-and-knife rampage on a train in southern Germany, wounding five people before being shot and killed by police - an attack that German authorities conceded Tuesday was almost impossible to prevent....
