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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Year of Mercy and its series ofpapal reflections may be over, but compassion and acts of mercy must continueand become a part of everyone's daily lives, Pope Francis said."Let us commit ourselves to praying for each otherso that the corporal and spiritual works of mercy increasingly become our wayof life," he said Nov. 30 during his general audience in the Vatican'sPaul VI hall.Because the day also marked the feast of St. Andrew,brother of St. Peter and founder of the church in Constantinople, Pope Francisgave special greetings to his "dear brother," EcumenicalPatriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.Pope Francis, the bishop of Rome and successor of Peter,said he was sending "a big embrace" to the patriarch and "thiscousin church."The Vatican released a letter from the pope to thepatriarch, which praised the way Catholics and Orthodox have begun "torecognize one another as brothers and sisters and to value each other's gi...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The morning after screening his film,"Silence," for about 300 Jesuits, the U.S. director Martin Scorsesehad a private audience with Pope Francis.During the 15-minute audience Nov. 30, Pope Francis toldScorsese that he had read Japanese author Shusaku Endo's historical novel,"Silence," which inspired the film. The book and film are afictionalized account of the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan; thecentral figures are Jesuit missionaries.Pope Francis spoke to Scorsese, his wife and two daughters,and the film's producer, about the early Jesuit missions to Japan and about theTwenty-Six Martyrs Museum andMonument in Nagasaki, which honors the Japanese martyrs executed on thesite in 1597.Scorsese gave the pope two paintings, which the Vatican saidwere "connected to the theme of the 'hidden Christians,'" theChristians who kept their faith secret during the persecution. One of thepaintings was of an image ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Grant Tinker, who brought new polish to the TV world and beloved shows including "Hill Street Blues" to the audience as both a producer and a network boss, has died. He was 90....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- For a half-century after the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history, Navy Capt. Paul "Bud" Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him - and not his last-minute replacement - on the doomed voyage of the USS Thresher in which 129 men died....
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian authorities on Wednesday were searching for answers to why a charter plane crashed shortly before it was to land in Medillin, killing all but six of the 77 people on board, including nearly an entire Brazilian soccer team in the midst of a storybook season....
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- Greek authorities picked up about 70 migrants, including children, in a snowy forest near the northern city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday, as smugglers turned to previously popular routes into the European Union rather than the sea crossing from Turkey....
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Thunderstorms dumped much-needed rain on eastern Tennessee overnight as thousands of people waited anxiously for news about their homes after wildfires tore through this resort community, killing at least four people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right....
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A Charlotte police officer who shot and killed a black man at an apartment complex, touching off several nights of unrest in the city, will not face charges, a North Carolina prosecutor announced Wednesday....
