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By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the next global celebration ofWorld Youth Day scheduled for Jan. 22-27, 2019, Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell knowsmany young Catholics in North America and Europe may find it a challenge toattend."It is a period of intense academic activity" forstudents in high school and university, but the Panama gathering will not bethe first held in January, he noted. World Youth Day 1995 in Manila, Philippines, was held inJanuary and "it has remained in history as the one with the largest numberof participants."The choice of January for Panama, he said, was motivated bythe weather, "seeing that January is the month with the least rain."Cardinal Farrell, former bishop of Dallas, is prefect of the Vatican Dicasteryfor Laity, Family and Life and will assist the bishops of Panama in planningthe event.In an interview Jan. 25 with L'Osservatore Romano, theVatican newspaper, Cardinal Farrell noted that the 2019 celebration of WorldYouth Day will be the first with ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Divided Christians need to recognizethe gifts God has given to other communities and learn from them "withoutwaiting for the others to learn first," Pope Francis said.Leading an ecumenical evening prayer service Jan. 25 for theclose of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis said Christiansmust overcome the "temptations of self-absorption that prevent us fromperceiving how the Holy Spirit is at work outside our familiarsurroundings," including in the lives of other Christian communities.The Vatican's Sistine Chapel Choir and the AnglicanWestminster Abbey Choir sang at the service at Rome's Basilica of St.Paul Outside the Walls.Pope Francis walked to the tomb of St. Paul, under the basilica's main altar, and prayed therewith Orthodox Metropolitan Gennadios of Italy, the representative of theEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and with AnglicanArchbishop David Moxon, the representative of the archbishop of...
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BEIRUT (AP) -- Al-Qaida-linked militants attacked a prison Wednesday where its fighters are held by other Syrian rebels in escalating violence in northern Syria after Russian-led talks urged mainstream insurgents to break with the extremists....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV's beloved "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday, said her publicist, Mara Buxbaum. She was 80....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A relic from America's first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared Wednesday he believes torture works as his administration readied a sweeping review of how America conducts the war on terror. It includes possible resumption of banned interrogation methods and reopening CIA-run "black site" prisons outside the United States....
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See Press Office has released a statement concerning the resignation of Fra' Matthew Festing from the office of Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta: "Yesterday, 24 January 2017, in audience with the Holy Father, His Highness Fra’ Matthew Festing resigned from the office of Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta."Today, 25 January, the Holy Father accepted his resignation, expressing appreciation and gratitude to Fra’ Festing for his loyalty and devotion to the Successor of Peter, and his willingness to serve humbly the good of the Order and the Church."The governance of the Order will be undertaken ad interim by the Grand Commander pending the appointment of the Papal Delegate."
