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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Matt PalmerAUSTIN,Texas (CNS) -- The juxtaposition was striking.Duringthe early evening of March 11, 59-year-old Bishop Paul Tighe worked his waythrough the hallways of the Austin Convention Center, weaving his way throughthousands of young people who were in town attending the South by SouthwestFestival, more commonly known as SXSW.Thisyear's festival began March 10 and will conclude March 19."Onone level, it's kind of strange because you're wandering around the place," saidBishop Tighe, who is currently adjunct secretary of the Pontifical Council forCulture. "You're certainly the only one in a collar and you're possibly theonly one with white hair."WhenBishop Tighe walked the convention floor, many of the attendees had recentlyemerged from panels hosted by tech giants, comedians, actors, politicians andmore.Asthey passed by Bishop Tighe, no one seemed to realize they had just encounteredone of the Vatican's most influential communicators during the la...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Conversion doesn't comefrom the wave of amagic wand, but from learning to do good through concrete actions every day,Pope Francis said. Whileeven "the saintliest person sins seven times a day," conversionhappens through humility and trying to become "better than the daybefore," the pope said March 14 during the Mass in the chapel of the DomusSanctae Marthae."Convertingdoesn't mean going to a fairy with a magic wand," he said. "No, it isa path, a path ofturning away (from evil) and of learning."Reflecting on the day's first readingfrom the prophet Isaiah (1:10, 16-20), the pope said, "You learn to do goodthrough concrete things. Not with words, but with actions."The reading from Isaiah gives threeexamples: "Help the oppressed, hear the orphan's plea and defend thewidow."Inthe day's Gospel reading from Matthew (23:1-12), the pope continued, Jesus alsoreproaches the scribes and Pharisees because they do not practice what theypreach."They do...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas lawmaker is making a point about legislation that restricts women's access to health care and abortions by proposing to fine men $100 when they masturbate....
DUBLIN (AP) -- Britain's plans to leave the European Union threaten to cause Ireland all kinds of economic and security headaches. But a silver lining is expanding daily along the crane-filled banks of the River Liffey, a likely post-Brexit refuge for British banking operations....
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- As deaths from painkillers and heroin abuse spiked and street crimes increased, the mayor of Everett took major steps to tackle the opioid epidemic devastating this working-class city north of Seattle....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump told Americans he'd do it all on health care: "insurance for everybody," better coverage and lower consumer costs. By the reckoning of nonpartisan budget analysts at Congress, that's not what will happen if the Republican bill he's backing becomes law....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A sloppy late-season storm lashed the Northeast with sleet and more than a foot of snow in some places Tuesday, paralyzing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor after a remarkably mild February had lulled people into thinking the worst of winter was over....
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro has challenged South Sudan President, Salva Kiir to work towards stopping the war and ensure that government soldiers behave professionally.The President of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC), Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro of Tombura-Yambio Diocese challenged the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit to take a “serious lead in putting in place concrete steps, which have to hold the nation as one.”Bishop Hiiboro said this in Yambio over the weekend, during the countrywide National Day of Prayer called for by President Kiir.Bishop Hiiboro challenged South Sudanese leadership represented by President Kiir as well as citizens to repent saying, “For this prayer to become historical and meaningful for us today we must repent and sin no more!”He urged President Kiir to take responsibility and bring about positive change saying, “The whole South Sudan will be watching President Salva Kiir very cl...
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) is celebrating the golden jubilee of the Bishops’ Lenten Appeals.In a Lenten message commemorating the golden jubilee, the Archbishop of Cape Town and President of the SACBC, Stephen Brislin, said over the last 50 years the Bishops’ Lenten appeal had made an enormous impact on the life of the Church in Southern Africa and on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.“It is with deep gratitude to God that we celebrate the 50 years of the Bishops’ Lenten Appeal. Undertaken so many years ago by the Bishops, with vision and faith, the annual collections of the Lenten Appeal has made an enormous impact on the life of the Church and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Southern Africa… the Lenten Appeal was set up to help those in need and the for the works of the Church in proclaiming the Good News," Archbishop Brislin writes.(Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va)Find below the full...