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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged Christians to follow the indications provided in the Beatitudes in order to avoid taking the path of greed, vanity and egoism.Speaking on Monday morning during Mass at the Casa Santa Marta the Pope drew inspiration from the Gospel of Matthew and said the Beatitudes can be used as “navigators” that shine the light on the pathway of Christian life. Reflecting on the famous Sermon on the Mount, Pope Francis said Jesus’ teaching on that occasion did not erase the old law; rather it ‘perfected’ it bringing it to its fullness: "This is the new law, the one we call ‘the Beatitudes’. It’s the Lord’s new law for us”.He described it as the roadmap for Christian life which gives us the indications to move forward on the right path.The Pope continued his homily commenting on the words of the evangelist Luke who also speaks of the Beatitudes and lists what he calls the ...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Ukraine's intelligence agency SBU said on Monday it has thwarted a plot to attack soccer's European Championships in France by arresting a Frenchman who wanted to cross from Ukraine into the European Union armed to the teeth....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president on Monday condemned the killing of David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, who died in an insurgent ambush the day before while on assignment in southern Afghanistan....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Islamic State group has been shooting at civilians as they try to flee the nearly two-week battle between Iraqi government forces and IS militants in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, an international aid organization and Iraqi military say....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump says he was surprised that Newt Gingrich hammered him for noting the Mexican ancestry of the American judge overseeing lawsuits against Trump University....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Would U.S. teens be any slimmer if Katy Perry hawked kale and quinoa?...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Ali Rajab is on his feet an average of 12 hours a day, cleaning, filling perfume bottles and helping sell mobile phones at the shop in Beirut where he works....
SULTAN YAACOUB, Lebanon (AP) -- At the eastern edge of the rural Bekaa Valley, where the rocky hillsides are stippled with cherry trees, a generations-old kinship with Brazil has imbued two Lebanese villages with a Latino spirit....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio prosecutor plans to release his decision Monday on whether he will pursue charges against the family of a 3-year-old boy who got into the Cincinnati Zoo's gorilla exhibit, leading to the fatal shooting of an endangered gorilla to protect the child....
