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IMAGE: CNS photo/EPABy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Young women and men who are tired of today's self-centered, materialistic society should consider becoming missionaries -- the heroes of evangelization, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass."Life is worth living" to the full, "but in order to live it well, 'consume' it in service, in proclamation and keep going forward. This is the joy of proclaiming the Gospel," the pope said May 10 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.So many men and women have left their families, homeland and culture to bring the Gospel to other continents, he said. So many of them never returned home, dying in mission lands from disease or martyrdom -- "offering their life for the Gospel. These missionaries are our joy, the joy of our church."Many missionaries are "anonymous," having served and died in foreign lands, he said. "They 'consumed' life," far from home and their loved ones, but lived knowing they could say, "what I have d...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Lorraine Turchansky, Archdiocese of EdmontonBy Glen Argan and Lasha MorningstarEDMONTON, Alberta (CNS) -- Whilevideo and photos of the raging inferno that destroyed much of Fort McMurraywere being flashed around the world, Jason and Katharine Campbell and their twosons were expressing gratitude for all that they still have."We've been focusing ongratitude because it's easy to relive the horror stories and relive thedisappointment and the fear," Katharine Campbell said following a May 8Mass for evacuees at Edmonton's Resurrection Church."Every night before bed we'veincluded a gratitude prayer and the boys (Ryan and Evan) have had to think hardabout what they're most grateful about," she said."It's really put this intoperspective for them. They're not upset about not being at home; they're notmissing their things because they understand we are very lucky and we have alot of wonderful things in our life still."Katharine Campbell is an Englishteacher and Jason Campbell ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Megyn Kelly sits down with Donald Trump for her prime-time special on the Fox broadcasting network, the Fox News Channel host hopes to call a truce to the war waged by the presumptive Republican nominee since he began slamming her after last August's Republican debate, where he was galled by her tough questioning as one of its moderators....
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is facing possible impeachment by Congress, with the Senate expected to vote Wednesday on a measure to suspend her. The effort comes amid an angry public mood over the South American nation's worst recession in decades and a big bribery scandal at the state oil company Petrobras. Yet, it is not tied to either of those. AP explains what's behind the movement to oust her, and how it could play out:...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The rollercoaster ride that is the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff took another hairpin turn after the acting speaker of the lower chamber of Congress reversed his own decision from just hours earlier that would have plunged the process into uncertainty....
GRAFING, Germany (AP) -- A German man yelled "infidel, you must die" and "Allahu akbar" as he stabbed one person to death and wounded three others at a Bavarian train station Tuesday, but authorities said they've found no links to any Islamic extremist network....
LONDON (AP) -- London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump's "ignorant" view of Islam, after the Republican presidential contender suggested Khan could be exempted from a proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a moment seven decades in the making, President Barack Obama this month will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb during World War II, decimating a city and exploding the world into the Atomic Age....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday received in private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the Audience, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the Congregation to promulgate decrees regarding: the miracle, attributed to the intercession of Blessed Ludovico Pavoni, Priest, Founder of the Congregation of the Sons of Mary Immaculate; born 11 November 1784, died 1 April 1849; the miracle, attributed to the intercession of Blessed Solomon Leclercq (né Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclerq), of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Martyr; born 15 November 1745, died 2 September 1792; the heroic virtue of the Servant of God Rafaél Manuel Almansa Riaño, Diocesan Priest, formerly Professed Priest of the Order of Friars Minor; born 2 August 1840, died 28 June 1927.The recognition of miracles for Ludovico Pavoni and Solomon Leclercq clears the way for the canonization of the two blesseds.Father Ludovico ...
(Vatican Radio) May 10th marks the anniversary of the first encounter between Pope Paul VI, the Bishop of Rome, and head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, which took place 43 years ago. Today, on the Day of Friendship between Copts and Catholics, Pope Francis has written to His Holiness Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, to commemorate the occasion.In his letter to head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, Pope Francis expressed his joy “at the ever deeper spiritual bonds” between the two communities, and thanked God for “the steps we have taken together along the path of reconciliation and friendship”. He went on to say, “though we are still journeying towards the day when we will gather as one at the same Eucharistic table, we are able even now to make visible the communion uniting us”.Pope Francis has also said in his letter that the Copts and Catholics are “called to offer a commo...
