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Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jun 17, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic faithful shouldn’t believe a misleading newspaper ad that says Sunday Masses are being held in a hotel room in the city of Colombo, the Archbishop of Colombo has said.The ad appeared on the first page of the late City Edition of the Daily Mirror June 9. It was titled “Celebrating Women in Ministry” and said there was a Mass every Sunday in the Cinnamon Grand Hotel.Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo warned about the ad in a letter to his parish priests, saying it “has nothing to do with the Catholic Church” and “is not in any way to be canonically considered equivalent to the Sunday Mass celebrated by the Church.”He emphasized that Mass is “celebrated only by a priest duly ordained to that ministry by a bishop of the Catholic Church.”Cardinal Ranjith cautioned the faithful not to be misled by the ad’s claim that its religious service was equivalent t...
Vatican City, Jun 17, 2016 / 08:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Since 2015, when the refugee crisis reached a fever pitch in Europe, five Syrian families fleeing civil war have found refuge in Italy with the help of the Vatican. As of Thursday, nine more people have been added to that list.“Following the visit of the Holy Father to the Island of Lesbos, in Greece, when he accompanied three families of refugees back to Rome, a second group of nine refugees, including two Christians, arrived in Rome yesterday,” a June 17 communique from the Vatican announced.The refugees, consisting of six adults and three children, arrived to Rome Thursday. They are all Syrian citizens who had been living in the Kara Tepe camp on Lesbos after making the perilous boat ride from Turkey to the small Greek island.According to the Vatican communique, the Vatican Police force, called the “Gendarmeria,” alongside the Interior Ministry of Greece, the Greek Asylum Service, and the Community of...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Paul HaringROME (CNS) -- Forty-nine votive candles burned in front ofthe altar in a Rome church as people gathered to pray for the victims of themassacre June 12 in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub.The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See and Santa Susanna parish,the parish serving U.S. Catholics in Rome, planned the evening prayer serviceJune 16. About 100 people attended.Paulist Father Steve Bossi, vice rector of Santa Susanna,spoke about the need to build a culture where everyone is accepted.Peace begins in each person's daily life, he said. "If we are not at peace with thosenear us, how can we be at peace with those far away?"In brief remarks at the service, Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassadorto the Holy See, said there is "no reason any individual needs to own anassault weapon."Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, 29, was identified by police asthe lone gunman responsible for the massacre at the Pulse, a gay nightclub. Police say he used a semi-automaticrifle and a semi-automati...
IMAGE: CNS/ReutersBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Because most people today do not understandthat sacramental marriage really is a bond that binds them to each other forlife, many marriages today can be considered invalid, Pope Francis said.Raising a point he has raised before, and one also raised bynow-retired Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis insisted June 16 that the validityof a marriage implies that a couple understands that sacramental marriage is abond that truly binds them to another for their entire lives."We are living in a culture of the provisional,"he told participants in the Diocese of Rome's annual pastoral conference.Answering questions after giving a prepared talk, Pope Francistold the story of a bishop who said a university graduate came to him saying hewanted to be a priest, but only for 10 years.The idea of commitments being temporary "occurseverywhere, even in priestly and religious life. The provisional. And for thisreason a large majority of sacramental marriages ...
DETMOLD, Germany (AP) -- A 94-year-old former SS sergeant was found guilty Friday of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison for serving as an Auschwitz guard, in a verdict that survivors from the Nazi death camp hailed as a long overdue victory....
CAIRO (AP) -- The second black box of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, a day after Egypt's investigation committee said the plane's cockpit voice recorder had been recovered....
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VIENNA (AP) -- The IAAF has upheld its ban on Russia's track and field team for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics....
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) -- A bartender says the Florida nightclub shooter stalked her nearly a decade ago, sending her so many uncomfortable messages on Facebook that she blocked him on the social network....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis opened the annual Ecclesial Convention of the Rome Diocese on Thursday evening at Rome’s cathedral: the Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. During the course of the inaugural event, the Holy Father responded to questions from several participants, each centered on specific aspects of the over-arching theme of the three-day event: the family and the joy of love.In one response in particular, Pope Francis renewed his criticism of our “provisional” and “throw-away” culture, which has largely become incapable of thinking that any good – even one’s word – could possibly be lasting and worth preserving no matter what the cost.“We too live a culture of the provisional,” said Pope Francis in response to a question from the floor regarding what needs – and what can – be done in order better to ensure the success and flourishing of marriages, and of people in married life within the Chur...
