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Over 2,000 inmates at the Tihar complex, the largest jail in India, took part in the Christmas celebration organized by the Prison Ministry of India (PMI) on Monday. PMI is a national voluntary organization recognized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India. It has around 6,000 volunteers, including priests, nuns and lay people, helping the jail inmates in about 800 prisons across the country. PMI annually organizes Christmas and other cultural programs for the prisoners across the country to bring joy to the inmates and advocate a message of peace and love in society.Father Savari Raj, PMI regional coordinator, told ucanews.com that for the past 10 days PMI has been organizing Christmas programs, including cultural events and Christmas carols, for prisoners in different jails across the country. "PMI organizes cultural performances by school children for inmates on patriotic and festive themes. It is just a way of making the prisoners feel part of society," Fat...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis, in his sollicitude for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta -- a lay religious Order (cfr. Constitutional Charter, art. 1, para. 1) that has, among its ends, that of “service to the faith and to the Holy Father” (ibid., art. 2, para. 1) – has ordered the establishment of a group of five authoritative members with the mandate of gathering evidence in order to inform the Holy See completely and in a short time about the event that has recently concerned the Grand Chancellor of the Order, Albrect Freiherr von Boeselager. This group is composed of Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, CS; Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, SJ; Avv. Jacques de Liedekerke; Mr Marc Odendall; Mr Marwan Sehnaoui.
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The reform of the Roman Curia is not a mere face-lift torejuvenate an aging body but a process of deep, personal conversion, PopeFrancis said.Meetingwith cardinals and the heads of Vatican offices for his annual Christmasgreeting, the pope warned that "it is not wrinkles the church shouldfear" but rather the stains that impede its growth and relevance in theworld."Thereform does not have an aesthetical end to make the Curia more beautiful; itcannot be understood as a sort of face-lift or applying makeup to beautify theelderly curial body, nor plastic surgery to remove wrinkles," the popesaid Dec. 22.Whilehis addresses in previous years focused on curial ills and medicinal virtues,this year's speech laid out a 12-step program of guiding principles gearedtoward an appropriate and long-lasting recovery."Itwas necessary to speak of illnesses and cures so that every operation -- to achievesuccess -- be preceded by an in-depth diagnosis, by acc...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two of Matt Lauer's former "Today" show co-hosts - Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira - are returning to the show for a week each in January with Savannah Guthrie on maternity leave....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- She is a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three. She recently had surgery to remove a malignant tumor, but doctors say she's doing well....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the fastest pace in two years and more than the government had previously estimated. But the growth spurt isn't expected to last....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy may be defined as much by what he didn't do as by what he did....
BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin stall holder Axel Kaiser recalls hearing a "dull bang" and seeing a nearby wooden Christmas market stand smashed to pieces by a truck. In the next few minutes, he helped tend to dozens of shocked visitors....
BERLIN (AP) -- Tunisian suspect Anis Amri's fingerprints have been found in the cab of the truck that plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin, strengthening the case linking him to the deadly attack, Germany's top security official said Thursday....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis invited the Roman Curia to embrace the process of reform on Thursday, telling them Christmas is “the feast of the loving humility of God, of the God who upsets our logical expectations, the established order”.His words came in his annual Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia.Listen to Devin Watkins' report: “At Christmas,” Pope Francis said, “we are called to say ‘yes’ with our faith, not to the Master of the universe, and not even the most noble ideas, but precisely to this God who is the humble lover.”In his address to the Roman Curia, the Holy Father returned, as during the previous two year’s addresses, to the theme of Curial reform, laying out the framework, guiding principles, and what is yet to come.He said, “Since the Curia is not an immobile bureaucratic apparatus, reform is first and foremost a sign of life, of a Church that advances on her pilgrim way, of a Church that is...
