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IMAGE: CNS/Carol GlatzBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- One of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has quit over what she described as resistance coming from Vatican offices against implementing recommendations.Marie Collins, who joined the commission when it was established in 2014, said: "The reluctance of some in the Vatican Curia to implement recommendations or cooperate with the work of a commission when the purpose is to improve the safety of children and vulnerable adults around the world is unacceptable.""It is devastating in 2017 to see that these men still can put other concerns before the safety of children and vulnerable adults," she said in an editorial published online March 1 by the National Catholic Reporter.Pope Francis created the commission to be an independent body of experts, including survivors of clerical sexual abuse, to advise him with recommendations on best practices for pr...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Like the people of Israel freed fromthe bondage of slavery, Christians are called to experience the path towardhope and new life duringthe Lenten season, Pope Francis said. Through his passion, death and resurrection, Jesus "hasopened up for us a way that leads to a full, eternal and blessed life,"the pope said at hisweekly general audience March 1, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent forLatin-rite Catholics."Lent lives within this dynamic: Christ precedes uswith his exodus and we cross the desert, thanks to him and behind him," hesaid. On awarm and sunny morning, the pope held his audience in St. Peter's Square.Arriving in the popemobile, he immediately spotted a group of children and signaledseveral of them to come aboard for a ride. One by one, the three girls and oneboy climbed into the popemobile and warmly embraced the pope. In hismain audience talk, the pope said that while Lent is a time of"penance and e...
By Junno Arocho EstevesROME (CNS) -- Lent is a time to receive God's breath of life,a breath that saveshumanity from suffocatingunder the weight of selfishness, indifference and piety devoid ofsincerity, Pope Francis said. "Lent is the time to say no to the asphyxia born ofrelationships that exclude, that try to find God while avoiding the wounds ofChrist present in the wounds of his brothers and sisters," the pope said March 1 during anAsh Wednesday Mass.PopeFrancis celebrated the Mass after making the traditional Ash Wednesdayprocession from the Benedictine monastery of St. Anselm to the Dominican-run Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill.After receiving ashes on top of his head from Cardinal JozefTomko, titular cardinal of the basilica, the pope distributed ashes to thecardinals, his closest aides, some Benedictines and Dominicans. He also distributed ashes to a family and to two members ofthe Pontifical Academy for Martyrs, which promotes the traditional Lenten"stati...
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new version of the frightful musical "Sweeney Todd" playing in downtown Manhattan that's undeniably meatier than most....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Frustrated by what she described as Vatican stonewalling, an Irish woman who was sexually abused by clergy quit her post Wednesday on a pontifical panel advising Pope Francis about how to protect minors from such abuse....
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A spring-like storm system that killed at least three people as it spawned tornadoes and destroyed more than 100 homes in the central U.S. rumbled eastward Wednesday, putting about 95 million people in its path, forecasters said....
Uber's CEO says he needs leadership help after a video has emerged of him arguing heatedly with a driver about fares....
PARIS (AP) -- Conservative candidate Francois Fillon refused to quit France's roller-coaster presidential race Wednesday despite receiving a summons to face charges of getting his wife and children taxpayer-funded jobs in which they allegedly did no work....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump finally gave Republicans what they've spent months begging him to deliver: a pivot to presidential behavior....
Washington D.C., Mar 1, 2017 / 02:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Ash Wednesday kicks off the Lenten season, Catholics enter into 40 days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol and other luxuries.But did you know that Catholic monks once brewed beer specifically for a liquid-only Lenten fast?Back in the 1600s, Paulaner monks moved from Southern Italy to the Cloister Neudeck ob der Au in Bavaria. “Being a strict order, they were not allowed to consume solid food during Lent,” the current braumeister and beer sommelier of Paulaner Brewery Martin Zuber explained in a video on the company’s website.They needed something other than water to sustain them, so the monks turned to a common staple of the time of their region – beer. They concocted an “unusually strong” brew, full of carbohydrates and nutrients, because “liquid bread wouldn’t break the fast,” Zuber noted.This was an early doppelbock-style beer, which the monks eventually...
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