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ONEONTA, N.Y. (AP) -- This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is beginning its journey from upstate New York to Manhattan....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Even for the best home chefs, Thanksgiving is a lot of work....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential transition (all times EST):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump joined President Barack Obama for their first meeting at the White House Thursday, a symbolic start to the transition of power to the nation's 45th president....
Pope Francis on Thursday, appointed Bp. John Baptist Jung Shin-chul, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Incheon (Korea) with the titular see of Cuicul, as the Bishop of Incheon Diocese. The See was vacant after the death of Bishop Boniface Choi Ki-san, on May 30, 2016.Fr. John Baptist Jung Shin-chul was born October 22, 1964 in Incheon-si, Songrim-dong, the parish of Game Bong-dong, in the Diocese of Incheon. He studied at the Catholic University of Incheon (major seminary) from 1983 to 1991, and thereafter at Suwon Catholic University, from 1991 to 1993 (for a Master's Degree). He was ordained January 29, 1993, for the Diocese of Incheon. After ordination, he held the following positions: 1993-1994: Parish Vicar, Samjung-dong, 1994-2002: Studies for a Ph.D. in Catechesis, Catholic University of Paris, 2002-2003: Parish Vicar, Yeokgok 2 Dong, 2003-2010: Professor and later Chancellor of the Catholic University (seminary) of Incheon, 2009-2010: Diocesan Vocations Director...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis revealed on Thursday that the search for Christian unity is one of his principle concerns, one that he prays may be shared by every baptized person. The Pope’s words came as he met in the Vatican with participants at a plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The meeting, from November 8th to 11th is exploring the theme “What model of full communion?”Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In his words to the group of ecumenical experts from across the globe, the Pope recalled the many important encounters he has had this year with leaders of other Christian communities. In particular he recalled his recent visit to Lund in Sweden to jointly preside at a Lutheran-Catholic commemoration of the start of the Protestant Reformation. That visit, he said, reminded him of the so called ‘Lund Principle’, formulated by the World Council of Churches back in 1952, which states ‘churches sh...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday warned Christians against the temptation of a show or entertainment religion that constantly seeks novelty and revelations, comparing it to fireworks that provide us with a fleeting brightness before dying. His comments came during his Mass celebrated on Thursday morning at the Santa Marta residence.The Pope’s reflections during his homily were inspired by the day’s reading about Jesus’ reply to the Pharisees’ question on when the Kingdom of God would come and he stressed how Christians must guard hope every day whilst waiting for the fullness of the Kingdom. Noting that Jesus told the Pharisees “the Kingdom of God is among you,” Pope Francis compared it to a small seed that is planted and grows on its own over time. He explained that God helps this seed to grow but without drawing attention to it. “The Kingdom of God is not a ‘show’ religion: one that is always seeking new things, ...
(Vatican Radio) Millions of newborns die every year of preventable causes. In 2015, 2.7 billion newborns died within one month of their births and three-fourths of them within the first week of life. There were an equal amount of stillborn babies, leaving families with the grief of mourning a child. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched an initiative called ‘Saving One Million Babies’. Their objective is to work with interfaith networks to deliver high impact interventions, with a goal of saving the lives of a million newborn babies by 2020.USAID has the knowledge and necessary interventions to prevent many of these deaths. By applying this knowledge to a global scale, including the low income nations where more than 90% of the deaths occur, they can increase the rate of newborn survival. Officials are present in Rome to attend the Justice and Peace Conference on Maternal and Child health and also the Rare and Neglected Tropical Diseases Co...
New York City, N.Y., Nov 10, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA).- Leah Fessler considers herself a feminist.And the standard feminist narrative is that women can have, and indeed enjoy, casual sex without consequences – physical, emotional, or otherwise.But when her experience with hookup culture (and that of her friends') in college failed to live up to its empowering promises and left her emotionally empty, Fessler decided to look a little deeper.In an article written for Quartz, Fessler explains her quest to examine what it was about the prominent hookup culture, and the ill-defined, non-committal “pseudo-relationships,” at her Middlebury college campus that were making her miserable.“Far more frequent, however, were pseudo-relationships, the mutant children of meaningless sex and loving partnerships. Two students consistently hook up with one another – and typically, only each other – for weeks, months, even years,” Fessler wrote.“Yet ...
BEIRUT (AP) -- A spokeswoman for a Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria says they are the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa....
