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(Vatican Radio) Canadian Archbishop-elect Donald Bolen says social justice, ecumenism and dialogue with indigenous peoples will be among his top pastoral priorities in the archdiocese of Regina. Bolen, currently the bishop of Saskatoon in the central province of Saskatchewan, was named on Monday as archbishop of the provincial capital.Last month, Bishop Bolen was in the news as he spent a couple of days living out on the streets of Saskatoon to raise awareness and funds for a hospice for the homeless. He described the experience of sitting on a sidewalk, being ignored by people all day, as “a deep learning experience”.Philippa Hitchen spoke to Bishop Bolen to find out more about this initiative and about expectations for his new job as head of the archdiocese of Regina…Listen: Bishop Bolen says the archdiocese covers about the bottom third of the province of Saskatchewan and is a large, rural territory, “about the size of Italy with a population of a...
(Vatican Radio) The President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, died overnight at the age of 67 after a long illness.He was born in Kupienin, Poland, April 7, 1949; and was ordained priest on 25 May 1973.Pope St. John Paul II appointed Zimowski bishop of the Diocese of Radom, Poland, on 28 March 2002; and he was appointed President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 April 2009.In 2014, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, Chairman of Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) and the Archbishop of Addis Ababa has called on the African Union (AU) member states to work together to enable the continent achieve its intended goals.“As the African Heads of States come together in Kigali, Rwanda, I ask that we pray for God’s guidance so that the Heads of States can find it within themselves to steer Africa and indeed our region to prosperity in fear of God,” Cardinal Berhaneyesus said. The Cardinal who is also the representative of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) to the AU made the appeal in a 10 July statement.He urged African leaders and governments to work together to “improve free movement of people on the continent and therefore reduce the existence of undocumented migrants and human trafficking.”The Archbishop of Addis Ababa further called upon the leaders to full...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers after the death of the council’s president, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski.The Archbishop died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.Pope Francis wrote Archbishop Zimowski “lived with a spirit of faith and Christian witness.”“I wish to express my spiritual participation in the mourning taking place within the Dicastery, and while keeping in mind his generous ministry first as the shepherd of the Diocese of Radom [in Poland], and then in the service of the Holy See, I have raised fervent prayers in suffrage to the Lord for his soul, entrusting him to the maternal intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland,” Pope Francis said.The Pope said he asked the Lord for the “eternal reward promised to the faithful servants of the Gospel,” and granted upon the officials and employees of...
Washington D.C., Jul 13, 2016 / 03:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- It’s a story seen across the nation – a neighborhood formerly known for rundown houses, empty shops and limited resources now finds flocks of millennials coming to the area’s trellised cafes and bars for brunch and drinks on weekends.What formerly made the neighborhood “sketchy” or caused outsiders to steer clear is now marketed as a selling point of its “character” to new investors and residents. It’s a change called “development” by many of the investors seeking to move in, and called “gentrification” by some who are skeptical of the impact that the rapid inflow of money has on longtime residents of a neighborhood.Yet, many of these conversations about the challenges – and opportunities – of gentrification have left out the institutions at the heart of many of these neighborhoods: the churches.“It’s been a mixed blessing,&...
Vatican City, Jul 13, 2016 / 06:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Less than two months after one of Sunni Islam’s highest authorities came to the Vatican following several years of icy relations, Pope Francis has sent a representative to Egypt’s Al-Azhar University in a bid to relaunch dialogue between the two.In accordance with “the explicit wish of Pope Francis,” Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, is currently in Egypt for an official visit to the Al-Azhar University, according to a July 12 press release from the Vatican.Bishop Ayuso will be accompanied by the Vatican’s ambassador to Egypt, Archbishop Bruno Musarò, for a July 13 meeting with Sunni academic and politician Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk, who is a member of the university's Council of Senior Scholars, director of the Al-Azhar Center for Dialoge and Egypt's former minister of religious endowment.According to the Vatican&rs...
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A member of a Canadian singing quartet changed a lyric in his country's national anthem and held up a sign proclaiming "All Lives Matter" during a pregame performance at the 87th All-Star Game on Tuesday....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's deadliest single bombing in 13 years of war has turned the Baghdad district where it took place into the centerpiece in an increasingly bitter rivalry between the country's prime minister and its Iranian-backed Shiite militias eager to hold sway over the city's most diverse and prosperous area....
LONDON (AP) -- David Cameron is making a final appearance in the House of Commons as prime minister Wednesday before handing over to his successor, Theresa May....
DALLAS (AP) -- Funerals are set to begin for the five officers slain by a sniper during a protest last week in downtown Dallas....
