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London, England, Nov 3, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- You might have heard of Phil Mulryne, a Manchester United footballer who's shared the field with David Beckham and brought fame to Ireland with 27 caps – international appearances – in his athletic career.But now, Mulryne is setting aside his jersey to pursue the vocation of a Catholic Dominican priest.“This for me was one of the major reasons that attracted me to the religious life,” Mulryne said in a video interview posted by the Daily Mail.“To give oneself completely to God through the profession of the evangelical councils, to take him as our example and despite our weakness and our defects, trust in Him that he will transform us by his grace, and thus being transformed, communicate the joy in knowing him to everyone we meet – this for me is the ideal of Dominican life and one of the major reasons of what attracted me to the order.”Mulryne, a 38-year old Irishman, began his ca...
Vatican City, Nov 3, 2016 / 06:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis spoke to representatives of different religions Thursday, telling them that acts of terrorism and violence must be very clearly condemned, while love and mercy – the heart of authentic religion – must be promoted.“Sadly, not a day passes that we do not hear of acts of violence, conflict, kidnapping, terrorist attacks, killings and destruction,” Pope Francis said, adding that “it is horrible that at times, to justify such barbarism, the name of a religion or the name of God himself is invoked.”“May there be clear condemnation of these iniquitous attitudes that profane the name of God and sully the religious quest of mankind.”Instead, he asked that “the aimless paths of disagreement and closed-mindedness” be rejected, and replaced with the path of a “peaceful encounter” among believers.As part of the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis met with around ...
Vatican City, Nov 3, 2016 / 07:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Nov. 6, a special Jubilee for Prisoners will be celebrated at the Vatican, drawing detainees and their families from around Italy and beyond to St. Peter’s Basilica for Mass with Pope Francis and a special reception after. “For the first time it will be possible for a large number of detainees from different parts of Italy and other countries to be present in St. Peter's Basilica to live the Jubilee with Pope Francis,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella said Nov. 3.“We know that the Pope takes great care of detained persons,” he said, noting how in each of his trips abroad, Francis “has repeatedly wanted to visit prisoners and leave the detained a message of closeness and hope.”Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, spoke to journalists at the presentation of the Jubilee for Prisoners, as well as that of the Nov. 13 Jub...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyKIDAPAWAN,Philippines (CNS) -- Justice is slow in the Philippines, but Father Peter Geremiais running out of patience as he awaits justice for the killers of a fellowpriest.Father Geremiais hoping that the country's new president, Rodrigo Duterte, cancut through the impunity and corruption that the priest says have preventedbringing to justice the killers of Father Fausto Tentorio. The Italianmissionary was shot to death on Oct. 17, 2011, just outside his parishoffice in the rural town of Arakan on the southern island of Mindanao, where hehad helped indigenous communities organize to resist the theft of their landsby foreign mining companies, loggers, and large agro-export plantations.Father Geremia,who was born in Italy but became a U.S. citizen in 1971 after living in theUnited States for more than a decade, is a member of the Pontifical Institutefor Foreign Missions, as were Father Tentorio and two other priests assassinatedin Mindanao...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Remo Casilli, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the Benedictine monks inNorcia led residents in prayer before the ruins of their medieval city, theyshowed one way the church steps into action in times of crisis.First responders encouraged the religious, recognizingthey could do their job better when the distraught receive emotional orspiritual rescue, too. SOS, after all, means "save our souls."In fact, the one disaster that cameras don't easily capture isthe shattering of people's resolve and the collapse of courage when everythingthey have is gone."Certainly the crumbled walls and the missingroofs" are a problem, Archbishop Renato Boccardo of Spoleto-Norcia said,but the most serious concern is the people -- "people who have been livingfor two months in a state of continual fear and worry and are underconsiderable psychological stress and losing hope."He told Vatican Radio the day after the Oct. 30 tremorsthat the people he talks to are tired of star...
Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living....
Millions of Americans are finding out this month that the price of their health insurance is going up next year - as it did this year, last year, and most of the years before that....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's High Court has ruled that the prime minister cannot trigger the U.K.'s exit from the European Union without Parliament's approval - a decision that complicates an already confusing situation riddled with uncertainties....
MILAN (AP) -- Survivors say as many as 240 people have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, the U.N. refugee agency reported Thursday, bringing this year's toll to more than 4,220 migrants dead or missing in risky Mediterranean Sea crossings, the highest count on record....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Latest on the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years. (all times local):...
