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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’s plane touched down at Monte Real Air Base shortly before 4:30pm local time in Portugal. The sky was threatening for much of the afternoon – not in the way it is always threatening a little rain in the height of springtime a thousand feet up and twenty-odd miles off the Atlantic coast – but a serious thunderstorm.The crowds at the airport were larger than I expected to see them, not only for the weather, but especially since they were there only to catch a glimpse of the Holy Father, who was not scheduled to deliver any prepared remarks and who in fact visited only privately with the President of the Portuguese Republic , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and then it was to the chapel at the air base where he landed, to share a moment of prayer with sick service personnel and their families.Pope Francis, you see, is here on pilgrimage.“A pilgrim of hope and peace,” is how he described himself ahead of his departure – and he ...
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 07:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Tomorrow, on the 100th anniversary of Mary’s first appearance at Fatima, Pope Francis will canonize Jacinta and Francisco Marto, two of the three shepherd children who witnessed the Marian apparitions.A press conference preceding the Pope’s arrival highlighted the miracle that paved the way for their canonization. The miracle involved a Brazilian boy named Lucas, who was miraculously healed through the intercession of the shepherd children.Jacinta and Francisco both died before age 10 and will become the youngest non-martyrs to be canonized. Sister Lucia, the third visionary, lived much longer, dying in 2005 at the age of 97. The Church is currently examining documents and collecting testimonies for her beatification cause.In recounting the story of their son’s healing in the face of almost certain death, João Batista and his wife Lucila Yurie could not hold back tears.“On March 3, 2013, befor...
IMAGE: CNSBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Makingconnections -- not just collections -- drives the work of the PontificalMission Societies.That is why the United States' officetapped into the rich digital-media milieu to offer a Facebook Messenger bot toconnect with Pope Francis and a MISSIO app for smartphone users to support andget updates on mission projects around the world.The internet "is the great connector,so we looked at how we could put this amazing technology that connects peopleinstantaneously" together with the great millennia-old human network ofthe church, Oblate Father Andrew Small, national director of the PontificalMission Societies in the United States, told Catholic News Service.The global network of the church"shares not just an idea or a mission statement, but shares this theologythat we are all part of the one body of Christ," he said. Merging the two-- the church and the web -- he said, has meant Catholics all over the worldcan put a face on their brother...
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- The Islamic State group said it carried out a brazen suicide attack on a Pakistani lawmaker in southwest Baluchistan province on Friday that killed 25 people despite a protracted crackdown on the assortment of militant groups operating in Pakistan....
HOUSTON (AP) -- As President Donald Trump tries to persuade a skeptical Congress to fund his proposed multibillion-dollar wall on the Mexican border, government lawyers are still settling claims with Texas landowners over a border fence approved more than a decade ago....
LONDON (AP) -- A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England on Friday, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawyers for President Donald Trump said Friday that a review of his last 10 years of tax returns did not reflect "any income of any type from Russian sources," but the letter included exceptions related to previously cited income generated from a beauty pageant and sale of a Florida estate....
