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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting with acrobats, clowns,carnival workers, street performers, musicians and magicians, Pope Francisthanked the artists for bringing beauty and joy to an often dark, sad world."You cannot imagine what good you do, the good yousow," he said June 16 during a special audience celebrating the jubilee ofcircus and traveling-show performers.While they may never know the impact they truly have onpeople, "you can be sure," he said, that "you sow these seedsthat do many people good."Hundreds of performers, family members and supportersgathered in the Paul VI hall as part of a two-day pilgrimage to Rome for theYear of Mercy.Even a tiny black panther cub and a rather largesix-month-old tiger attended the papal audience.To the tune of "O Sole Mio" played by an organgrinder, an animal wrangler used a baby bottle filled with milk to lure theleashed tiger toward the pope, who was invited to pet the enormous cat.Looking hesitant at firs...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The news that no die-hard "Hamilton" fan - or anyone who hasn't seen the Broadway smash yet - wants to hear has arrived: Lin-Manuel Miranda, its creator and star, is leaving the show this summer....
CAIRO (AP) -- The cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's investigation committee said on Thursday....
LONDON (AP) -- British lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and critically injured in her northern England constituency Thursday, prompting both sides in the debate over British membership in the European Union to suspend campaigning....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As political leaders bicker over guns and terrorism, President Barack Obama will try to help a distraught community heal during a solemn visit Thursday to Orlando, Florida....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- While his victims texted heartbreaking last words to loved ones from the blood-drenched bathrooms, Omar Mateen apparently went on Facebook to measure the shockwaves his attack on a gay nightclub was generating....
(Vatican Radio) After the mass killing of 49 people by a sole gunman in a nightclub that caters for the homosexual community in Orlando,Florida, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - has urged the United States to adopt robust gun control measures to pre-empt further killingsHe said the U.S. leadership needs to live up to its obligations to protect its citizens from the “horrifyingly commonplace but preventable violent attacks that are the direct result of insufficient gun control.”Listen to the report by Peter Kenny in Geneva: Quoting Zeid, UNHCR spokesman Rupert Colville said it is hard to find a rational justification that explains the ease with which people can buy firearms. People can buy assault rifles in spite of prior criminal backgrounds, drug use, histories of domestic violence and mental illness, or direct contact with extremists – both domestic and foreign. Zeid asked: “How many more mass killings of scho...
(Vatican Radio) Two events will take place in Rome next week looking at the value of disabled people in culture and in the study of theology.The Vatican ‘s Pontifical Council for Culture along with the Kairos Forum will be sponsoring an academic symposium and a conference entitled, Living Fully 2016.The aim of both these gatherings is to celebrate the lives and stories of disabled people within culture and faith and introduces the study of disability theology from within a cultural perspective.This celebration of disability follows a highly successful Jubilee for the Sick and the Disabled that also took place in Rome recently, in which Pope Francis championed the importance of diversity and inclusion.Cristina Gangemi, is a disability advisor to the Bishops Conference of England and Wales and the Director of the Kairos Forum which seeks to highlight and respond to the spiritual and religious needs of people with disabilities.She will be participating in both events and s...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Thursday with members of the ROACO (Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches) Assembly which raises funds for Christians in the Eastern-rite Churches. Among those taking part in the meeting were the papal representatives from Jerusalem, Lebanon, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq and Jordan, as well as the new Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land, Fr Francesco Patton.In his greetings to the group, Pope Francis thanked them for their work, in particular the task of helping to fund the restoration of the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the small shrine of Christ's tomb at the heart of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.Noting that the restoration work in Bethlehem has unearthed the mosaic of a seventh angel in the nave of the Basilica, the Pope reflected on the way the face of our own communities can also be covered by 'incrustations' as a result of all our problems and sins. Yet all your work, the Pope said, must u...
(Vatican Radio) The world of the Circus spreads “a culture of encounter” and those working in such travelling shows have a unique opportunity “to be Christ’s witnesses” to “even the most distant” of people: that’s what Pope Francis said Thursday to members of Italian circuses and travelling entertainment.In a festive audience in the Vatican, Pope Francis greeted representatives of circus associations, employees of amusement parks and fairs, street performers, artists, designers and puppeteers, musicians and folk groups celebrating their Jubilee for Circus and Travelling Show People. The Pope told them their festiveness and joy “are distinctive signs of your identity, your profession and your life” and that this appointment “could not be overlooked” in the Jubilee of Mercy.The 15-16 June Jubilee was sponsored and organized by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peo...
