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BERLIN (AP) -- Angela Merkel, who has steered Germany through several global crises as its first female leader, said Sunday that she will seek a fourth term as chancellor in general elections next year....
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and Ukraine on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru, in their first known conversation since Donald Trump was elected the next U.S. president....
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, on the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe, and the conclusion of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.The liturgy began with the Holy Father closing the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, through which pilgrims passed during the course of the Jubilee as a sign of penance and devotion.In his homily, Pope Francis said, “[E]ven if the Holy Door closes, the true door of mercy which is the heart of Christ always remains open wide for us.”The kingship of Christ in its cosmic, social, and personal dimensions was the main focus of the Holy Father’s remarks to the faithful.“[T]he grandeur of [Christ’s] kingdom is not power as defined by this world, but the love of God, a love capable of encountering and healing all things,” said Pope Francis. “Christ lowered himself to us out of this love, he lived our human misery, he suffered the lowe...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, following a Mass to mark the Solemnity of Christ the King, and the official close of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.In remarks to pilgrims and tourists gathered for the occasion, Pope Francis thanked the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization and especially the Council’s President, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, for their organization of the year-long initiative.The Holy Father also had words of gratitude for the police and other forces dedicated to security and order, for volunteers, for everyone near and far who made a pilgrimage, for everyone who had come from far-away places to mark the closing of the year, and for all who prayed and made other spiritual contributions to the success of the venture, especially cloistered women religious, who on Monday are to mark Pro orantibus day – the World Day of Cloistered Life.“Ma...
Vatican City, Nov 20, 2016 / 09:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis still remembers his meeting with a former prostitute who had suffered much.In a new interview, the Pope recalled the time he met with a young pregnant woman from Africa who was “beautiful, young (and) exploited.”In telling her story, the woman said she was forced to work until she was nine months pregnant. She ended up giving birth “in the winter on the street. Alone. By myself,” Francis recalled her saying.Her newborn daughter, exposed to the cold, died.This added to the woman’s suffering.“They made her work until that day, because if she didn’t bring the exploiters much, she was beaten, even tortured,” the Pope said. He recalled that another woman he met in the community had her ear cut off because she didn’t bring enough money back for her traffickers.Pope Francis said that when he heard these stories, he didn’t just think of the exploiters, but also th...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) --Balancing a cup in one hand and a small sandwich over the plasticplate on her lap while a grandchild played on the floor next to herwheelchair, Marie Terese Tobin beamed with joy for all the gifts Godhas given her."Now I know why Ilasted this long," said the nonagenarian, to see the eldest ofher 13 children be made a cardinal. "It's the frosting on thecake," she said, smiling.Her son, Cardinal JosephW. Tobin, was one of 17 men from 14 countries to be inducted into theCollege of Cardinals by Pope Francis during a ceremony in St. Peter'sBasilica Nov. 19."Have you got allday?" she laughed when asked what makes Cardinal Tobin special."I can't tell you how much he loves his family," keeping intouch with siblings and their children, knowing what each and everyone of them is up to. This is what makes him areal pastor -- that "ability to have a really intimaterelationship with everyone," she told Catholic News Service at areception f...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Visiting young women rescued fromforced prostitution and meeting with a mother inconsolable over the loss of oneof her newborn triplets are images from the Year of Mercy that Pope Francissaid remain impressed on his heart.Reviewing the Holy Year in a 40-minute interview aired Nov.20 on TV2000, a television station owned by the Italian bishops' conference,Pope Francis also spoke about handling stress, his upcoming 80th birthday and asense of humor, among other topics.Asked about the Mercy Friday visits he made oncea month during the Holy Year, the pope said the visit with women rescued fromhuman trafficking and his visit to the neonatal ward of a Rome hospital werethe visits that stand out.Visiting Rome's San Giovanni Hospital in September, he said,"there was a woman who cried and cried and cried standing by her twoinfants -- tiny, but beautiful. The third had died.""She cried for that dead child while she caressed ...
