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Vatican City, Mar 20, 2017 / 08:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During a brief meeting with Rwandan president Paul Kagame Monday, Pope Francis voiced his sadness for members of the Church who participated in the 1994 genocide, asking for forgiveness and assuring those who still suffer of his prayer.According to a March 20 Vatican communique, during the meeting, the Pope “conveyed his profound sadness, and that of the Holy See and of the Church, for the genocide against the Tutsi.”“He expressed his solidarity with the victims and with those who continue to suffer the consequences of those tragic event,” it read.In imitation of St. John Paul II’s gesture during the Great Jubilee in 2000, Francis implored God’s forgiveness “for the sins and failings of the Church and its members, among whom priests, and religious men and women who succumbed to hatred and violence, betraying their own evangelical mission.”Pope Francis, in light of a statement publ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Pope Francis askedGod's forgiveness for the failures of the Catholic Church during the 1994Rwanda genocide and for the hatred and violence perpetrated by some priests andreligious."He implored anew God's forgiveness for the sins andfailings of the church and its members, among whom priests and religious menand women who succumbed to hatred and violence, betraying their own evangelicalmission," said a Vatican statement released March 20 after the meeting ofthe pope and president.Some 800,000, and perhaps as many as 1 million people --most of whom belonged to the Tutsi ethnic group -- died in the ferociousbloodshed carried out from Aprilto July 1994."In light of the recent Holy Year of Mercy and of the statementpublished by the Rwandan Bishops at its conclusion" in November, theVatican said, "the pope also expressed the desire that this humblerecognition of the failings of that period, which, unfortunately, d...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- David Rockefeller, the billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the last in his generation of one of the country's most famously philanthropic families, died Monday. He was 101....
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LONDON (AP) -- Britain will begin divorce proceedings from the European Union on March 29, starting the clock on two years of intense political and economic negotiations that will fundamentally change both the nation and its European neighbors....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Quick, name a Supreme Court justice. OK, name three. One of the current justices, Stephen Breyer, once noted wryly that their names are less well-known than those of the Three Stooges....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee praised President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick on Monday for an "unfailing commitment" to the principle of separation of powers, as Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing got underway....