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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis arrived back in Rome on Tuesday afternoon at the conclusion of his 17th Apsotolic journey abroad which took him to the southern Swedish cities of Lund and Malmo. Earlier in the day he celebrated Mass for the local Catholic community, urging them to follow in the footsteps of the saints of the past.But the two key events of trip took place the previous day, as the Pope joined Lutheran leaders for a common commemoration of the Protestant Reformation that divided Europe five centuries ago.Philippa Hitchen reports on the lasting impact this visit may have on the future of Lutheran-Catholic relations…Listen: While we can’t change the past, we can profoundly transform the way we remember it. That’s the message of the joint statement signed in Lund cathedral on Monday by Pope Francis and by Bishop Younan, president of the World Lutheran Federation.It’s also a theme at the heart of a 2013 Catholic-Lutheran publication called ‘Fro...
Aboard the papal plane, Nov 1, 2016 / 10:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During a press conference Tuesday aboard the papal plane from Sweden to Rome, Pope Francis said the issue of women priests has been clearly decided, while also clarifying the essential role of women in the Catholic Church.“On the ordination of women in the Catholic Church, the final word is clear, it was said by St. John Paul II and this remains,” Pope Francis told journalists Nov. 1.The question concerning women priests in the Catholic Church was asked during the flight back to Rome after the Pope’s Oct. 31-Nov. 1 trip to Sweden to participate in a joint Lutheran-Catholic commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.While there, the Pope participated in ecumenical events alongside Swedish Lutheran and Catholic leaders, including the first female Lutheran archbishop in Sweden, Antje Jackelén. She is the head of the Church of Sweden, the largest denomination of Lutheranism in Europe...
Aboard the papal plane, Nov 1, 2016 / 11:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his flight from Sweden to Rome on Tuesday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the journalists assembled aboard the papal plane. He reflected on refugees, the ordination of women, ecumenism, and the crisis in Venezuela.He also addressed secularization, human trafficking, and his possible international trips in the coming year.Please find below the full text of the Nov. 1 press conference, translated by Catholic News Agency: Greg Burke: Thank you, Holy Father. Welcome. We have… you spoke a lot of walking together, this when we speak of different religions…. We also have walked a bit of a path together, some for the first time. We have Swedish journalists. I think that it’s been a bit of time that Swedes haven’t come. Let’s begin with them. Elen Swedenmark, from the Swedish Agency, TT.Pope Francis: Above all, I’d like to greet you and thank you for the work you’...
By Cindy WoodenABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM SWEDEN (CNS) -- The Catholic Churchinsistence that it cannot ordain women to the priesthood and episcopacy is ateaching likely to last forever, Pope Francis said.After being hosted by the Lutheran Church of Sweden, whichis led by Archbishop Antje Jackelen of Uppsala, the nation's first womanprimate, Pope Francis was asked Nov. 1 if the Catholic Church might one dayhave women priests and bishops.As he has done in the past, the pope responded that thequestion was settled in 1994 by St. John Paul II, who taught that because Jesuschose only men as his apostles, the ordination of women in the Catholic Churchis not possible.He was asked, "Really? Never?" And he responded,"If one carefully reads the declaration of St. John Paul, it goes in thatdirection, yes."In one of his briefest airborne news conferences, PopeFrancis spent just over 40 minutes with reporters and answered six questionsranging from Sweden's newly restrictive immigration policy ...
SEATTLE (AP) -- One week before Election Day, Starbucks has unveiled a new cup in the U.S. that it says is meant to be "a symbol of unity."...
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A school bus was blocks away from its first stop Tuesday morning when it rear-ended a car and then ricocheted off a roadside pillar into an oncoming commuter bus. The pre-dawn accident killed at least six people and injured 10, authorities said....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida college student accused of killing a couple and chewing on the dead man's face told deputies, "Help me, I ate something bad" and then admitted it was "humans" as he spit out a piece of flesh, court documents show....
CASTELLUCCIO DI NORCIA, Italy (AP) -- Some houses are collapsed outright, pancaked piles of stones and plaster. A pair of skis stick out. Some are cracked open neatly, exposing living rooms frozen in time....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby's lawyers pressed a judge Tuesday to keep the comedian's damaging deposition in a decade-old lawsuit out of his sexual assault trial, saying Cosby agreed to answer questions under oath after being assured he wouldn't be charged with a crime....
BAZWAYA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's special forces fought their way into the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday, taking its state television building despite resistance by Islamic State group fighters that is only likely to stiffen when combat reaches the inner city....
