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(Vatican Radio) The Statute of the Pontifical Academy for Life, signed by the Holy Father on 18 October, was published on Saturday, and will come into effect on 1 January 2017.The following is a working translation of the text. Part INature and AimsArticle 1 – Introduction§ 1 – The Pontifical Academy for Life, which has its seat in Vatican City State, was instituted by the Supreme Pontiff St. John Paul II by the Motu Proprio Vitae Mysterium of 11 February 1994.The aim of the Pontifical Academy for Life is the defence and promotion of the value of human life and the dignity of the person.§ 2 – The specific task of the Academy is to:a) study questions and issues connected with the promotion and defence of human life from an interdisciplinary perspective;b) educate in a culture of life – in relation to those aspects that belong to its specific range of competence – through suitable initiatives, always in full respect of the Magisterium of ...
(Vatican Radio) Dozens of Catholic martyrs who were killed between 1945 and 1974 by Albania's Communist regime for their Christian faith were beatified on Saturday during a Mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints.The Beatification ceremony took place in the northwestern Albanian city of Shkodër.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Up to 20,000 people attended an emotionally charged Mass in and around the main cathedral in the city of Shkodër to remember the martyrs who refused to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ and were therefore executed by Albania's late communist dictator Enver Hoxha's regime. In April, Pope Francis officially recognized as martyrs Archbishop Vincens Prenushi and 37 other priests and consecrated persons who died in prison or were murdered from 1945 to 1974 by communist dictator Enver Hoxha's regime. Hoxha banned religion in 1967 and his regime persecuted especially ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the search for profits outweighsall other considerations in society, money becomes a god who terrorizeshumanity -- excluding the majority of people and causing those still well offto build walls to cower behind, Pope Francis said."The entire social doctrine of the church and themagisterium of my predecessors rebel against money as an idol that reignsinstead of serves, tyrannizing and terrorizing humanity," the pope said.Like all forms of terrorism, the terrorism of an economyfocused only on making money relies on people's fear for effectiveness, PopeFrancis said Nov. 5 during a meeting at the Vatican with participants in thethird World Meeting of Popular Movements, a collection of grassroots organizationsof the poor, the underemployed, indigenous communities and farmworkers."When this terror, which is sown in the peripherieswith massacres, pillaging, oppression and injustice, explodes in the centerswith various forms of violence -- includin...
SHKODER, Albania (AP) -- Thousands gathered in prayer Saturday at a cathedral in Albania to celebrate the beatification of 38 Albanian Catholic martyrs executed or tortured to death during the former communist regime....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The Harvard men's soccer team has apologized for sexual comments made about members of the women's soccer team that led the Ivy League school to suspend the men's team for the rest of the season....
NICHOLS, S.C. (AP) -- Nearly a month since floodwaters consumed this Mayberry-like hamlet in rural South Carolina, few have returned. The fear is that many never will....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Islamic State fighters launched counterattacks Saturday against Iraqi special forces in eastern Mosul, emerging from populated areas deeper in the city to target the troops with mortars and suicide car bombs in clashes that raged late into the night....
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(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, on Friday said “peacemaking and substantive dialogue including genuine bilateral negotiations must replace the counterproductive illogic of violence and war, currently underway in the Middle East.”The Vatican diplomat was speaking to the United Nations General Assembly as they discussed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).“The Holy See notes that the areas where UNRWA exercises its responsibilities includes territories of the ancient Christian heartland where for two millennia Christians have been part and parcel of the culture and history of the peoples in the region, along with other ethnic and religious groups,” – Archbishop Auza said – “Greatly reduced in number, they are today among the refugees served by UNRWA. Forced by violent persecution, in some places by outright slaught...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday received family members of the House of Hasburg visiting the Vatican for a Jubilee pilgrimage.To the some 300 people gathered in the Clementine Hall, the Pope said “I am happy to receive you in the occasion of this pilgrimage that you have undertaken as a family” and he highlighted the fact that ‘family’ implies a wealth of interconnections and variety and is a value to be “rediscovered” in current times.The Pope recalled one of the Hasburg family’s most remarkable ancestors: Blessed Charles of Austria who was beatified in 2004 by Saint Pope John Paul II.Remembering that some 100 years ago or so he ascended to the throne, the Pope said Charles’ spiritual presence is such that the Hasburg family is not nostalgically imbued in the past but, to the contrary, “it is actively present in the challenges and needs” of our time.He mentioned how some of those present for the audience have ro...
