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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis encouraged believers on Wednesday to open their eyes and hearts to God’s love for the poor and to the gift of healing that he offers to all who turn to him in faith.His words came during the weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s square as he continued his catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy.The Pope reflected on Jesus’ miracle of restoring sight to a blind man on the way to Jericho as recounted in the Gospel of Luke.He said that the blind man was sitting on the roadside begging and pointed out that, until not long ago, a person with disability had no choice but to live on charity.“That blind man, Francis said, represents the many people who, even today, are marginalized because of a disadvantage,” be it physical or of other kind.The Pope said the man is separated from the crowd that goes about its business as usual. “The street, which can be a place of encounter, for him is a place of solitude” he sai...
Denver, Colo., Jun 15, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square and around their television sets to pray for Pope John Paul II as he passed away on April 2, 2005. They remembered the more than 26 years he served as the Holy Father; the courage he had in fighting communism; his immense love; and his adventurous spirit.But that was eleven years ago.The generations of young people who grew up during the papacies of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis might only know St. John Paul II for his canonization, which took place April 27, 2014.The new documentary Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism hopes to educate these younger generations on the heroic life of the Roman Pontiff – telling the stories they cannot find in their textbooks.“One of the reasons we set out to make this film is to kind of cement the legacy of Pope John Paul II,” David Naglieri, the film’s writer and director, told CNA.&ldqu...
Vatican City, Jun 15, 2016 / 04:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that we must listen to the cries of the poor and needy, resisting the temptation to close our hearts because we are “bothered” by their constant pleas for help.Reflecting on the miracle in Chapter 18 of Luke’s Gospel in which Jesus heals a blind man who cries out to him on the side of the road, Francis noted how the man had “a strong voice,” but the people around “rebuke him to keep quiet, as if he didn’t have the right to speak.”“They don’t have compassion on him, but rather, they are bothered by his cries,” the Pope said, asking “how many times do we, when we see so many people in the street, needy people, sick and with nothing to eat, feel bothered?”“How many times do we, when we find ourselves before so many refugees and migrants, feel bothered?” he asked, sayings this is a temptation everyone has, “ev...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius walked on his stumps in a South African courtroom on Wednesday as part of his defense team's argument that the double-amputee athlete, convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency when he is sentenced....
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization's research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn't enough proof to show a link to cancer....
PARIS (AP) -- French police and anti-terrorism investigators have been alerted to the possibility that small groups of extremists have left Syria for France and Belgium with plans to stage attacks....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the massacre at a gay Orlando nightclub (all times local):...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Shot in the leg and lying in a mix of blood and water on a bathroom floor, Patience Carter heard gunman Omar Mateen dial 911 from just a few feet away. The American-born son of an Afghan immigrant, Mateen told the person on the other end he wanted America to stop bombing his country, she recalled....
Some passages in Scripture are hard to grasp, the meanings of others seem apparent. This looks like one of the latter. Don't parade your charity before others to build yourself up in their eyes. However, like most...
(Vatican Radio) The First Secretary of the Holy See Mission to the UN in Geneva gave an intervention Tuesday in which he renewed the Holy See’s call for the international community to responsibly and adequately address the ongoing migrant crisis.The 15 June statement delivered in English by Mons Richard Gyhra to the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva was that of the Vatican’s representative to the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic.Listen to the intervention delivered by Mons Gyhra, courtesy of UN correspondent Christian Peschken: “These movements are often the consequence of social and economic inequalities, violent conflicts, natural disasters and also religious persecutions,” the statement said.“While understanding the need for national policies to address large flows of migrants and refugees, my Delegation wishes&nb...
