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(Vatican Radio) For the very first time, the Vatican has approved an association dedicated to its women employees. Donne in Vaticano (D.VA) or Women in the Vatican is open to lay and religious female employees and retirees of Vatican City State, the Holy See and its related institutions. Its establishment is unprecedented in the history of the small state. According to a press release issued by the Holy See Press office, the twelve founding members of the newly formed Association formally signed the Act of Constitution, approved by the competent authorities, on 1 September 2016 at Vatican City’s Governorate.Its membership now open to the some 750 women employees of the Vatican and to the many in retirement, D.VA intends to create a network of friendship, exchange and solidarity for the personal and professional growth of its members. President Tracey McClure, a senior journalist at Vatican Radio, says the Association was founded upon the belief “that women are a ...
Vatican City, Dec 7, 2016 / 09:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis gave an interview to a Belgian magazine in which he cautioned media to avoid several major temptations, including the desire to always focus on scandal – which he compared to “coprophilia,” a mental illness in which a person has an abnormal interest in feces.“Media I think have to be very clean, very clean and very transparent. And not fall – without offending, please – into the sickness of coprophilia,” the Pope said in his new interview, published Dec. 7.Coprophilia, or coprophagy, is technically defined as a condition in which a person has an abnormal interest and pleasure in feces or excrement. However, for Pope Francis, his use of the word referred to an attitude in journalism that always tries to communicate scandal. Since people looking to the media frequently have “a tendency toward coprophilia” – meaning they take pleasure in and seek ou...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Pearl Harbor MuseumBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- A Catholic military chaplain and historian says the attack on PearlHarbor, even 75 years later, continues to rivet the attention of Americansbecause it is "such a powerful event."As theanniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack neared, Father Daniel Mode detailed theeffect of the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian outpost."Beforethat, we were debating whether to get involved with World War II or not. Wewere basically a neutral country, trying not to get engaged in it. It (theattack) changed the tenor, and the president's resolve, Father Mode told CatholicNews Service. "It brought our country together to fight a common threat."Speakingin a telephone interview from the Pentagon, where he works for the chief ofchaplains, Father Mode said he can see a parallel between Pearl Harbor and the9/11 terror attacks."They'reboth cataclysmic events that galvanized our country," he said. "One was more obviouslytargeted toward the ci...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christian hope is not the same asbeing optimistic about the future, but is knowing that whatever dark orfrightening things are going on in one's life, God is there offering protectionand light, Pope Francis said.Holding his general audience in the Vatican audience halldecorated with Nativity scenes and Christmas ornaments from the state of Queretaro, Mexico, PopeFrancis announced Dec. 7 that he was beginning a series of audience talks abouthope.Especially during Advent and in preparation for Christmas,he urged people to read the second half of the Book of Isaiah, "the greatprophet of Advent, the great messenger of hope."The audience began with a reading of Isaiah 40, which starts:"Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God."When the prophet was writing, the pope explained, the peopleof Israel were in exile, they had "lost everything -- their homeland,freedom, dignity and even their trust in God. They felt abandoned a...
PETERSHAM, Mass. (AP) -- In a towering forest of centuries-old eastern hemlocks, it's easy to miss one of the tree's nemeses. No larger than a speck of pepper, the Hemlock woolly adelgid spends its life on the underside of needles sucking sap, eventually killing the tree....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As Donald Trump makes his thank-you tour of states that voted for him, other parts of the country are gearing up to do battle with his administration....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Recovery efforts at an Oakland warehouse fire have ended and the death toll stands at 36, officials said Wednesday....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Twelve jurors were chosen Wednesday to decide the death penalty trial of a white man who authorities say wanted to start a race war by killing nine black people in a South Carolina church....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A plane belonging to Pakistan's national carrier crashed on Wednesday with 48 people on board, apparently killing all of them, police and an airline spokesman said....
MEUREUDU, Indonesia (AP) -- Thousands of people in the Indonesian province of Aceh took refuge for the night in mosques and temporary shelters after a strong earthquake Wednesday killed nearly 100 people and destroyed dozens of buildings....
