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(Vatican Radio) Managing money, combatting corruption, planning a budget and guaranteeing transparency in all financial transactions. These important skills will be at the heart of a new programme on Church management to be launched next spring at the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome.Designed to give priests, religious and lay people the skills to be better stewards of the Church’s resources, the course has been put together in partnership with a group of American Catholic universities and leadership training institutes.The programme is the brainchild of Msgr Martin Schlag, professor of Catholic social thought at Holy Cross University, who’ll shortly to be taking up a teaching post at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota. He told Philippa Hitchen more about the course and why it’s such a vital part of the evangelization envisioned by Pope Francis for the Catholic Church todayListen: Msgr Schlag says he took part in a Vatican conference 9 years ag...
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See has appealed to the international community to face global challenges with solidarity and cooperation between nations.Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva, made the appeal at the 35th Session of the Human Rights Council.“For the wellbeing of our human family and the promotion and protection of the common good there is an urgent need to recognise the role of international solidarity as an essential element for the enjoyment of fundamental human rights by all,” he said.He said international solidarity would help nations face current challenges “such as migration, climate change and natural disasters, armed conflicts and the growing gap between poor and rich”.Archbishop Jurkovic said, “Solidarity does not oppose sovereignty; instead, it pushes for a deeper understanding of the concept of sovereignty as an expression of the freedom of people.”Rather than trampling on a pe...
Paris, France, Jun 6, 2017 / 09:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A man was shot after an apparent hammer attack on police officers at Paris police headquarters next to the Cathedral of Notre Dame on Tuesday.The suspect was wounded in the chest during the June 6 attack. He had allegedly attacked officers on duty at the headquarters.Tourists ran from the attack, BBC News reports. The attack closed the area around the historic cathedral, and people were asked to stay away.The incident follows a London attack in which Islamic extremists used a van and knives to kill seven and wound dozens of people.Extremist attacks in Paris in 2015 killed 147.France has experienced several terrorist attacks in recent years, including a July 2016 attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in which a priest was murdered while saying Mass.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Antonio Bat, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The diabolical language of hypocrisy, which ensnares othersthrough flattery, has the power to destroy Christian communities, Pope Francissaid. Like the Phariseeswho spoke to Jesus with soothing words of adulation, Christians who engage in hypocrisy speak gently yet"brutally judge a person," the pope said June 6 at his early morningMass. "Hypocrisyis not the language of Jesus. Hypocrisy is not the language of Christians. AChristian cannot be a hypocrite and a hypocrite cannot be a Christian. This isvery clear," he said. "Hypocrisy can kill a community." Inhis homily during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the popefocused on the day's Gospel reading from St. Mark, which recounts the Pharisees'attempts to trick Jesus into answering a question on the legality of paying acensus tax. Theirattempt to trap Jesus with flattery, the pope said, is the first sign of theirhypocrisy."Hypocritesalways...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Will Oliver, EPABy Simon CaldwellMANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark,the archdiocese that covers London south of the River Thames, where a terroristattack June 3 claimed 7 lives and injured 48 people, offered prayers for thevictims and survivors."Following the tragic attack oninnocent people last Saturday evening in the Borough, we pray for those whohave been killed and those who were injured, some critically, and I offer oursympathy to their families, friends and colleagues," Archbishop Smith said in aJune 6 statement.The incident unfolded, authoritiessaid, when three men in a van mowed down people on the London Bridge and then leftthe vehicle to go on a killing spree in Borough Market, a popular restaurant andbar district located south of the river. Some people in the market area attemptedto stop the attackers by throwing chairs and bottles at them, police said. Thethree men were shot and killed by police at the scene."I want to thank ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- George and Amal Clooney have welcomed twins Ella and Alexander Clooney....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A woman's claim that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her at a Los Angeles hotel two decades ago was bolstered by her mother and a workers' compensation lawyer Tuesday on Day 2 of the comedian's trial....
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for allegedly sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself wanted the sympathy and attention that came with being the "grieving girlfriend."...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- Struggling to expand its ranks, the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it's paying this year to more than $380 million, including new incentives to woo reluctant soldiers to re-enlist, officials told The Associated Press....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Repairing the nation's crumbling roads and bridges was supposed to be an area ripe for bipartisan compromise between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump. Instead, Democrats are panning Trump's proposed $1 trillion overhaul and even Republicans are balking at some aspects of the emerging plan....
