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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Triumphantly armed with a majority of his party's delegates, Republican Donald Trump unleashed a broadside attack Thursday on Hillary Clinton's prescriptions for energy, guns, the economy and international affairs, shifting abruptly toward the general election with his likely Democratic opponent locked in a divisive primary contest....
(Vatican Radio) The Prefect-emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, shared a reflection with Vatican Radio for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.The central focus of Cardinal Arinze’s extended meditation was the abiding Eucharistic faith of the Church, and the great joy of Christians in giving witness to that faith – especially in the Eucharistic processions that mark the Feast of Corpus Christi here at Rome and in countless towns and cities around the world. “Everybody is there,” he exclaimed. “Flowers, singing – the excellent Eucharistic hymns that incorporate very much the faith of the Church in the Holy Eucharist – listen to them, sing them, read them,” he said. “It is just a wonderful feast.”Click below to listen to Cardinal Arinze’s extended meditation
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis delivered the homily at Mass being celebrated on the steps of Rome's cathedral Basilica of St. John Lateran on Thursday, to mark the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Our Lord. Below, please find the full text of the Holy Father's prepared remarks, in their official English translation.********************************« Do this in remembrance of me » (1 Cor 11 :24-25).Twice the Apostle Paul, writing to the community in Corinth, recalls this command of Jesus in his account of the institution of the Eucharist. It is the oldest testimony we have to the words of Christ at the Last Supper. “Do this”. That is, take bread, give thanks and break it; take the chalice, give thanks, and share it. Jesus gives the command to repeat this action by which he instituted the memorial of his own Pasch, and in so doing gives us his Body and his Blood. This action reaches us today: it is ...
(Vatican Radio) This week's World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul that aimed to reach all vulnerable people appears to have left some behind. Notwithstanding the fact that one of the five “Core Responsibilities” at the heart of the Summit’s Agenda reads “Leave no one behind”, advocates for the rights of older people say between 10 and 20 percent of an aging world’s population has been let down. Present at the Summit together with world leaders, NGOs, faith based groups and civil society involved in delivering humanitarian aid, was HelpAge International, the global network that helps older people claim their rights, challenge discrimination and overcome poverty, so that they can lead dignified, secure and healthy lives.HelpAge was also actively engaged in the Summit’s preparatory process to try and ensure that the significance of global ageing and its implications for humanitarian action were...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on the steps of Rome’s cathedral basilica of St. John Lateran Thursday evening, to mark the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.In the homily he prepared for the occasion, Pope Francis focused on the Eucharist as the source of Christian strength. “From the outset,” he said, “it is the Eucharist which becomes the centre and pattern of the life of the Church: but we think also of all the saints – famous or anonymous – who have ‘broken’ themselves, their own life, in order to ‘give something to eat’ to their brothers and sisters.” The Holy Father went on to say, “How many mothers, how many fathers, together with the slices of bread they provide each day on the tables of their homes, have broken their hearts to let their children grow, and grow well; how many Christians, as responsible citizens, have broken their own lives to defend the d...
Rome, Italy, May 26, 2016 / 11:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In breaking bread for his disciples Christ gave an example of what it means to allow oneself to be broken for the good of others, Pope Francis said on the feast of Corpus Christi, explaining that it is the Eucharist which gives us the strength to do this.“Jesus was broken; he is broken for us. And he asks us to give ourselves, to break ourselves, as it were, for others,” the Pope said May 26, during his homily for the Mass of the feast, said before the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome.Corpus Christi celebrates the institution of the Holy Eucharist and is marked by special displays of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, most notably Eucharistic processions.During his homily, Pope Francis pointed to the many mothers and fathers who, “together with the slices of bread they provide each day on the tables of their homes, have broken their hearts to let their children grow, and grow well!”...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The former secretary to a saint and the oldest member of theCollege of Cardinals died May 26 at the age of 100.ItalianCardinal Loris Capovilla, who served St. John XXIII before and after he becamepope, died in Bergamo, near Milan. CardinalCapovilla was born in Pontelongo, Italy, on Oct. 14, 1915, and ordained to the priesthood in 1940. Ajournalist before starting to work for the future saint, he was an energeticand eloquent storyteller, drawing on his remarkable and vividly detailed memory.Whenthe freshly named patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, chose37-year-old Father Capovilla as his private secretary in 1953, askeptical adviser told the cardinal -- who would become Pope John XXIII -- thatthe priest looked too sickly to bear the strain of his new job.Butthe cardinal outlived his employer by half a century and was a dedicated custodianof his legacy, running a small museum dedicated to the saint's memory in thela...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paulo Cunha, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzingermet the press in 2000 for the formal release of the so-called Third Secret ofFatima, he said he knew many people would be disappointed.Almost 16 years later, at the beginning of a yearlongpreparation for the 100th anniversary of the apparition of our Lady of Fatimain 2017, now-retired Pope Benedict XVI is still dealing with people notconvinced the secret is really out.An online journal called OnePeterFive published an articleMay 15 claiming that shortly after then-Cardinal Ratzinger released the secretand his commentary, affirming that it was the complete text, he told a Germanpriest that, in fact, it was not."There is more than what we published," thearticle claimed the cardinal told Father Ingo Dollinger. The article wentfurther: "He also told Dollinger that the published part of the secret isauthentic and that the unpublished part of the secret speaks about 'a badcouncil and ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- A Corpus Christi procession should honorChrist's gift of himself in the Eucharist, but also should be a pledge to sharebread and faith with the people of the cities and towns where the processionstake place, Pope Francis said.Just as the "breaking of the bread" became theicon of the early Christian community, giving of oneself in order to nourishothers spiritually and physically should be a sign of Christians today, thepope said May 26, the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.On a warm spring evening, the pope's celebration began with Massoutside Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran and was to be followed by a traditionalCorpus Christi procession from St. John Lateran to the Basilica of St. MaryMajor, one mile away. Hundreds of members of parish and diocesan confraternitiesand sodalities -- dressed in blue, brown, black or white capes and robes --joined the pope for Mass and would make the nighttime walk to St. Mary Majorfor eucha...
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- Tejas Muthusamy knew he was in trouble....
