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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch declared Tuesday he's made no promises to Donald Trump or anyone else about how he'll vote on abortion or other issues and testified he'll have no trouble as a justice holding anyone accountable, including the president who picked him....
I Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41The book God’s Annoying Love for Imperfect People by Michael Yaconeli tells the story of a man recently converted to Jesus and how an unbelieving friend sought to “see” why. “So you have been converted to Christ?” “Yes.” “Then you must know a great deal about Him. Tell me, what country was he born in?” “I don’t know.” “What was his age when he died?” “I don’t know.” “How many sermons did he preach?” “I don’t know.” “You certainly know very little for a man who claims to be converted to Christ.” “You are right. I am ashamed at how little I know about him. But this much I know: Three years ago I was a drunkard. I was in debt. My family was falling to pieces; they dreaded the sight of me. But now ...
San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina, Mar 21, 2017 / 11:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- It’s been called the Medjugorje of Argentina.A now widely-popular apparition of Mary began in the early 1980s when rosaries began to glow in multiple homes in the town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, a city of 138,000 people about 150 miles from Buenos Aires.After seeing this phenomenon, local wife and mother Gladys Quiroga de Motta began praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary first allegedly appeared to Motta on Sept. 25, 1983, as a glowing figure wearing a blue crown and veil.Motta has only a fourth grade education and no formal biblical or theological schooling. She is the mother of two daughters, and a grandmother. Since 1983, she has continued to receive apparitions and messages from both Christ and Mary, containing calls for peace and warnings about the urgency of conversion for all mankind.The recent Bishops of San Nicolás de los Arroyos have granted approval of the Marian ap...
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar 21, 2017 / 11:32 am (CNA).- Mateo studied baking and Leandro pastry making. Franco and Mauricio wanted to be waiters. These overlapping interests led the four friends with Down syndrome to start a successful pizza service in Buenos Aires, Argentina.With nearly 40,000 followers on Facebook, this group of friends held nearly 30 events in just their first two months. Wherever they are called, they always arrive with their own oven and outfits. The offer pizza and empanadas, and they even have a menu for those who are gluten intolerant.Each one knows his role in the undertaking, which is coordinated by Leandro López, president of the Crecer Sumando (Growing Together) association, which is dedicated to serving young people with Down syndrome.López told CNA that “the idea was to try to change a little bit the paradigm regarding persons with Down syndrome,” in order to help normalize their inclusion in society's workforce.It all st...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Young men and women can live a trueexperience of the church by joining together and reconnecting with the past,Pope Francis told Catholic young people."The genuine experience of the church is not like aflash mob, where people agree to meet, do their thing and then go theirseparate ways," the pope said in his message for World Youth Day 2017.The message, released March 21 at the Vatican, centered on averse of the Magnificat: "The Mighty One has done great things forme."Pope Francis has chosen several verses that reflect onMary's faith from the first chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke as the themes forWorld Youth Day 2017-2019. This year and next, World Youth Day will becelebrated on a local level -- on Palm Sunday at the Vatican -- and in 2019 itwill be an international gathering in Panama.The pope reminded young people that another event, the Synodof Bishops in 2018, will also help them to reflect on how they "live t...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Theconfessional is a place where one can go to humbly seek forgiveness; it is not a drycleaners where one goesto remove the occasional stain, Pope Francis said. While forgiveness is"God's great work of mercy," Christians can take for granted the power of the sacrament ofreconciliation and confess while being "unable to be ashamed" oftheir sins, the pope said March 21 in his homily during morning Mass at DomusSanctae Marthae. "You did not go thereashamed of what you did. You saw some stains on your conscience and you weremistaken because you believed the confessional was a dry cleaners to remove stains,"he said. Reflecting on the day'sfirst reading from the prophet Daniel in which the people of Israel humbly begGod to pardon their sins, the pope said shame was "the first step" inseeking forgiveness. However, he noted, theGospel reading from St. Matthew recounts Jesus' parable of the ungratefulservant who, altho...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Nancy McNally, Catholic Relief ServicesBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Some 5 million people in SouthSudan -- half of its total population -- are on the brink of starvation and aquarter of a million children are already severely malnourished, arepresentative from the U.S. bishops' Catholic Relief Services said.Famine has already gripped 100,000 people in Unity Stateand other parts of the nation, and if emergency food and aid don't get topeople soon, "people will start starving to death or they will die ofdehydration," Jerry Farrell, country representative in South Sudan forCRS, told Catholic News Service March 21.Farrell and other representatives from dioceses, CRS,Caritas and other Catholic aid and development agencies working in South Sudanwere in Rome for a meeting March 21-22 hosted by Caritas Internationalis todiscuss the worsening crisis in the country. With so much fertile land in the country, the foodshortages and famine are man-made, Farrell said, a re...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a story March 20 about renovations at the tomb of Jesus, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Edicule is revered by Christians as the site where Jesus rose to heaven. Tradition says the Jerusalem shrine is the site of Jesus' resurrection, not the ascension to heaven....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- During a night of vodka, cocaine, marijuana and video games, Joey Meek listened as a childhood buddy confided that he hated blacks so much he was going to kill them at a Charleston church....
DUBLIN (AP) -- Standing at the Butcher's Gate in Londonderry, Martin McGuinness often had to choose between war and peace. For the longest time, he chose war....
