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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will preside over a penitential service at the Vatican in anticipation of the  ’24 Hours for the Lord’ initiative.The service will take place on Friday 17th March, one week before all churches around the world are asked to offer the sacrament of Confession, a request made by the Pontifical Council for the Promoting of the New Evangelization.The theme of the initiative this year comes from the Gospel according to Saint Matthew: ‘I desire Mercy’ (Mt 9:13).On Friday 24th March, the churches of Santa Maria in Trastevere and  Le Stimmate di San Francesco will remain open from 8pm for Confession and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. On Saturday 25th March, a service of thanksgiving will take place at 5pm in the church of Santo Spirito in Sassia. Monsignor Rino Fisichella, the President of the Pontifical Council for the Promoting of the New Evangelization, will preside over First Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Lent.People ...
(Vatican Radio) Bishops in Scotland have condemned the comments of a Member of Parliament as “chillingly intolerant” after it emerged recently that he would work with humanists to put an end to Catholic education in the country.Tommy Sheppard is a senior member of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and an MP for the capital city of Edinburgh. He is also a member of the Humanist Society Scotland (HSS), and was recorded while speaking at an HSS event during last year’s SNP conference.The event was promoting the HSS ‘Enlighten Up’ campaign, which seeks to put a stop to mandatory religious representation on local authority committees. Speaking about a secular school system in Scotland, Sheppard said, “Some of the things in the Enlighten Up campaign are, I believe, exactly the way to do that.” He added, “Chip away at the power organized religion has within our school system.”A spokesperson for the Bishops’ Conference of Scotlan...
Phoenix, Ariz., Mar 16, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic school can be a missionary force to bring Christ to the world, the Bishop of Phoenix has said in a new apostolic letter.“A mark of a truly Catholic school is the fruit that is borne in the lives of its graduates,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix said. “That fruit is to be shown in the missionary activity of its graduates, called and sent by Jesus to be salt and light in the culture around them, knowing that people and cultures die without Christ.”The bishop’s apostolic letter “Evangelizing through Catholic Schools” was dated March 3, the feast day of the Catholic educator St. Katharine Drexel.His letter said Catholic schools should be “a place of encounter with Jesus Christ” that can impart a Catholic worldview through the curriculum, help students achieve true freedom, and send them out as “missionary disciples to transform the culture.”Many C...
Vatican City, Mar 16, 2017 / 09:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has chosen Fr. Steven Biegler, a native of Rapid City, South Dakota, as the next bishop of the Diocese of Cheyenne, WY.A March 16 message posed on the Rapid City diocese’s website wished Fr. Biegler well in his new role on behalf of Bishop Robert Gruss, the clergy, religious and people of the diocese, saying, “we pray that God will continue to richly bless you with wisdom, vitality and the love of Christ and his people.”Fr. Biegler, 58, has been a priest of the Diocese of Rapid City since his ordination July 9, 1993. Most recently, he has held the position as Vicar General of the diocese since 2011 and Rector of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help since 2016.The Diocese of Cheyenne encompasses the entirety of the state of Wyoming and has a total population of 584,153 people, of whom 55,336 are Catholic.The official See of the Cheyenne diocese has been...
IMAGE: CNS illustration/courtesy BaylorBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Amir Hussain wants Americans to know that Muslims have always been apart of the history of the United States, starting long before the country gained itsindependence from Great Britain."There'snever been an America without Muslims," said Hussain, quoting from thefirst line of his book "Muslims and the Making of America" during a programat the National Press Club March 14.Atleast 10 percent of the slaves kidnapped in West Africa and brought to the U.S.beginning in the 17th century were Muslim, explained Hussain, professor oftheological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles."Muslimshave been a part of the history of this country since before this country wasthis country," Hussain told the audience. Born in Pakistan, he emigrated with hisparents to go to Canada and he later became a U.S. citizen.As anexample, Hussain's book briefly recounts the story of a Muslim, Estevanico the Moor, in what no...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians who trust in themselves rather than Godeventually become unsympathetic to those in need and slide down the slipperypath of corruption, Pope Francis said. People who place their trust in their own vanity, pride and riches lose theirsense of direction and "distance themselves from God," the pope saidMarch 16 during his early morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus SanctaeMarthae."When a person lives in his own closed environment,when he breathes that air that comes from material goods, from pleasures, from vanity,from feeling safe and only trusting in himself," the pope said, "heloses his bearings, he loses the compass and doesn't know his own limits."PopeFrancis reflected on the day's first reading from the prophet Jeremiahin which God warns: "Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, whoseeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the Lord."To trust in one's own heart, the pope said, is a"slippery path" because...
NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's says it has been notified by Twitter that its account was "compromised" after it appeared to send a message calling Donald Trump "a disgusting excuse of a President."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Should a chimpanzee be treated as a person with legal rights?...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The top prosecutor for metro Orlando said Thursday she is no longer going to seek the death penalty, igniting condemnation from some state officials and law enforcement leaders but also praise from some civil liberties groups....
PARIS (AP) -- A French high school principal and two others were shot Thursday at their school in southern France, and a 17-year-old student suspected of opening fire on them was arrested in a police raid, officials said....
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