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Sydney, Australia, Jun 28, 2016 / 03:44 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In the 1970s, a teenager boarded a boat to escape the cruelty of war in his homeland of Vietnam. He landed as a refugee in a foreign land.Now, he has been installed as the fourth Catholic bishop of Australia’s Parramatta diocese.On June 16, Vietnamese native Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen, O.F.M. Con. became the new shepherd of the Parramatta diocese.“I have taken many leaps of faith before, including the one that launched me literally onto the Pacific Ocean,” Bishop Nguyen said at his installation Mass at Parramatta’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.The bishop explained his episcopal motto “Duc in Altum,” which means “Go into the deep.” He connected it to his own struggle as a refugee.Born in 1961 in Dong Nai, Vietnam, Nguyen entered St Paul’s Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Xuan Loc, located about 37 miles north of Saigon.With the fall of Saigon in 1975, the communist ...
IMAGE: CNS illustration/Liz AgbeyBy Chaz MuthWASHINGTON(CNS) -- At first glance, it's difficult to distinguish Father Lukasz J.Willenberg as a Catholic priest as he gathers with U.S. Army paratrooperspreparing for a training jump at Pope Field near Fayetteville, North Carolina.Insteadof wearing the traditional black clerics, the 34-year-old Polish immigrant issporting fatigues, a camouflage helmet and a contraption strapped to his backthat will release a parachute after he jumps out of a military aircraft, alongwith the scores of other soldiers waiting in that same harness shed on a warmMarch afternoon earlier this year.Shortlybefore the men and women are called to board the aircraft, Father Willenbergstands up, and with the heavy jump gear fastened to his fit body, he sluggishlymakes his way to the center of the shelter to lead everyone in a prayer.Yes,this priest prays, works, trains and jumps out of airplanes with the men andwomen in the second battalion of the 3rd Brigade in th...
DALLAS (AP) -- Three crew members were missing and one was hurt Tuesday after a head-on train collision in the Texas Panhandle that caused several box cars to erupt in flames and led authorities to evacuate residents in the area....
MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) -- Donald Trump called for a new era of economic "Americanism" Tuesday, promising to restore millions of lost factory jobs by backing away from decades of U.S. policy that encouraged trade with other nations - a move that could undermine the country's place as the dominant player in the global economy....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The Latest on Britain's vote to leave the European Union (all times local):...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday concluded their $7 million, two-year investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, with fresh accusations of lethal mistakes by the Obama administration but no "smoking gun" pointing to wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state and now the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- European leaders pushed Britain toward the exit door Tuesday, warning Prime Minister David Cameron that there's no turning back after his country's unprecedented vote to leave the EU and pressing for a quick and clear British departure plan to quell worldwide anxiety about the continent's future....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Latest on the explosions at Istanbul's Ataturk airport (all times local):...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Suspected Islamic State group extremists have hit the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, Turkish officials said Tuesday....
