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Vatican City, Jun 28, 2016 / 11:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic and Orthodox Churches find unity in God's mercy and in the responsibility to spread the Gospel, Pope Francis said Tuesday to a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.“Acknowledging that the experience of God's mercy is the bond uniting us means that we must increasingly make mercy the criterion and measure of our relationship,” the pontiff said during the June 28 audience at the Vatican.“If, as Catholics and Orthodox, we wish to proclaim together the marvels of God’s mercy to the whole world, we cannot continue to harbor sentiments and attitudes of rivalry, mistrust and rancor.”“For divine mercy frees us of the burden of past conflicts and lets us be open to the future to which the Spirit is guiding us.”Francis received the delegates of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, during their visit to Rome for the celebration of the June 2...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Hackett, ReutersBy Simon CaldwellMANCHESTER, England (CNS) --Catholic bishops condemned a sharp rise in xenophobic and racist attacksfollowing Britain's vote to leave the European Union.Cardinal Vincent Nichols ofWestminster said the "upsurge of racism, of hatred toward others issomething we must not tolerate.""We have to say this issimply not acceptable in a humane society, and it should never be provoked orpromoted," he said.The June 28 statement fromCardinal Nichols, president of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales,came a day after the National Police Chiefs' Council revealed that of 85complaints of hate crime were received between June 23, the day of thereferendum on United Kingdom membership in the EU, and June 26.The figure represented a 57 percentincrease in such offenses in a similar period just a month earlier.Xenophobic incidents includedthe vandalism of the buildings of a Polish social and cultural association inLondon and the verbal abuse o...
DETROIT (AP) -- Volkswagen owners can finally dump their cheatin' cars, if they want to....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death transformed the Supreme Court's term, shifted power to its liberal wing and started a transition that will be greatly affected by who wins the presidency....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Just weeks ahead of the Olympic Games, police helicopters are grounded, patrol cars are parked and Rio de Janeiro's security forces are so pressed for funds that some have to beg for donations of pens, cleaning supplies and even toilet paper, fueling worries about safety at the world's premier sporting event....
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Weak from heart surgery and a sepsis infection that would soon kill her, Patricia Paone was resting at home last summer when an apparition appeared on the TV - a famous businessman who had struck a deal with her husband years before....
MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) -- Republican Donald Trump took aim at U.S. free trade deals in a speech delivered in Western Pennsylvania Tuesday that painted his likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as a champion of the kind of globalization that has pushed manufacturing jobs overseas....
LONDON (AP) -- As continental powers pressure a nervous Britain to formally apply to exit the European Union, die-hard "remain" supporters are taking on the mission to put the brakes on the so-called Brexit....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- A Turkish official says two explosions have rocked Istanbul's Ataturk airport, wounding multiple people....
Indian Archbishop Emeritus Henry D'Souza of Calcutta passed away on June 27, following age-related illness. He was 90. He was the Archbishop of Calcutta now the city of Kolkata from 1986 till his retirement in 2002.Archbishop Emeritus Henry Sebastian D'Souza was well-known internationally as he was the Archbishop when Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, in Kolkata.. Later on he played a crucial role in initiating the process of her canonization. Archbishop D’Souza often hailed Mother Teresa as “the face of Christ in the world” for spending her life time helping people understand the nature of the divine.He was born January 20, 1926, in Kolkata and was ordained a priest on August 24, 1948. He was appointed the bishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in 1974. In 1985, he was transferred to Calcutta as the coadjutor Archbishop. He succeeded Cardinal Lawrence Picachy as the archbishop of Calcutta on April 5, 1986.The Archbishop ...
