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(Vatican Radio) In the journey of the Christian, truth is not negotiable; rather, a Christian must be just in mercy, as Jesus teaches us. That was the message of Pope Francis at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father warned against hypocrisy and the deception of a faith reduced to a “casuistic logic.”Listen to Christopher Wells' report: “Is it lawful for a husband to put away his wife?” That is the question the doctors of the law put to Jesus in the day's Gospel.Jesus does not give in to a casuistic logic, but always explains the truthThey asked the question to once more put Jesus to the test, the Pope observed. Looking to Jesus' answer, the Pope explained what matters most in the faith:“Jesus does not answer whether it is lawful or not lawful; He doesn’t enter into their casuistic logic. Because they thought of the faith only in terms of ‘Yes, you can,” or “No, you can’t” – to t...
The Holy Father Pope Francis on 30 December 2016 appointed Very Rev. Fr. Benjamin Kituto Maswili as the Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate in Kenya.In a recent interview, Fr. Maswili, expressed gratitude to Pope Francis for entrusting him with the responsibility. He also thanked the Bishops of Kenya for their support.Fr. Maswili said his immediate undertaking is to offer spiritual and psychological support to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and their families affected by the attacks and killings at the hands of al-Shabaab militants while on peacekeeping mission in Somalia. “We need to train more Catechists and priests to help in counselling affected families of fallen soldiers and those of wounded soldiers to be able to live normal lives again,” He said.He added that he would promote the Pontifical Society of the Missionary Childhood or Holy Childhood amongst the children of the military forces and encourage the association to be embraced in famili...
Vatican Weekend for February 25th, 2017 features a report on Pope’s Francis’ general audience where he urges aid for famine victims in South Sudan, a religious sister in the war-torn country tells us about the children who are already dying from hunger there, we explore the significance of Pope Francis’ historic visit to the Anglican church of All Saints in Rome and we have two reflections to mark the start of the Lenten season.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:  
Vatican Weekend for February 26th, 2017 features a moving testimony from a former supervisor of executions at a U.S. prison who describes how this harrowing experience led him to become a strong opponent of the death penalty and our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges: 
(Vatican Radio) A 2-day seminar focusing on the contribution of science, culture, politics and technology in improving water and sanitation management came to a close on Friday in the Vatican. The workshop organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences was entitled “The human right to water: An interdisciplinary focus and contributions on the central role of public policies in water and sanitation management”.Present at the seminar Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the new Vatican office for Integral Human Development, said policies for a just and fair water management are urgently needed in the quest for greater social justice and solidarity. Speaking to Vatican Radio, he said the seminar is a precious occasion to push for good water management policies:Listen:  Cardinal Turkson said the meeting is important because it provides an occasion to draw attention to the fact there is still no formulation regarding access to water in terms of it being a &l...
(Vatican Radio) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States – NASA – made an announcement this week about a major astronomical discovery: seven planets orbiting a star, three of which are in the so-called “habitable zone” of the solar system some 40 light-years from Earth.Scientists have named the star TRAPPIST 1 – an acronym for the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, which is located in Chile and was the instrument chiefly used in the original discovery of the system, the planets of which are identified simply as TRAPPIST b-h.No other known system contains so many Earth-sized and probably rocky planets.Scientists say they need to study the planets’ atmospheres before determining whether they are capable of supporting life.To learn more about the discovery, we spoke with Fr. Brian Reedy SJ, a biophysicist who has designed experiments on life forms conducted aboard the International Space Station&hell...
An international human rights organization is campaigning for the Vietnamese government to ‎investigate recent police violence against some 700 marchers who were trying to file a lawsuit against a polluting ‎Taiwanese steel plant.  Amnesty International said on Feb. 20 that hundreds of marchers, including ‎women and children, from Song Ngoc Catholic Parish in Nghe An province were attacked by police on Feb. 14 while ‎travelling to a court in neighboring Ha Tinh province. They intended to submit 619 individual ‎complaints against Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese company that spilled toxic waste into the sea in April ‎‎2016 causing Vietnam's worst ecological disaster, according to a Reuters report.  The complainants ‎want damages totaling $20 million for the devastation of fish stocks they depended upon for their ‎livelihoods.‎Father Francis Xavier Nguyen Hong An, head of Vinh Bishop's House Office, issued a ‎statement On Fe...
(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis met on Friday with participants in a conference on the human right to water, organised by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.Listen to the report by Philippa Hitchen: Pope Francis said the questions concerning the right to water are not marginal, but basic and pressing.  Basic, because where there is water there is life, and pressing, because our common home needs to be protected.Yet we must also realise, he said, that not all water is life-giving, but only water that is safe and of good quality. The right to safe drinking water, he insisted, is a basic human right which cries out for practical solutions and needs to be given the central place it deserves in the framework of public policy. Our right to water, the Pope continued, gives rise to an inseparable duty. Every state, he said, is called to implement, also through juridical instruments, the Resolutions approved by the United Nations General Assembly since 2010 concerning the huma...
(Vatican Radio) The blessing of a newly commissioned icon of Christ the Saviour sets the stage for Pope Francis’ historic visit to the Anglican Church of All Saints on Sunday. It’s the first time a pope has ever visited an Anglican place of worship in his diocese of Rome and it comes as the centerpiece of celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the community.The icon, which will be blessed by the Pope, together with Anglican and Orthodox leaders attending the afternoon prayer service, is the work of English artist Ian Knowles, who heads a school for Palestinian art students in the Holy Land.He talked to Philippa Hitchen about the aims of the Bethlehem Icon Centre and the way this type of liturgical art can help to heal our ecumenical divisions…Listen:  Knowles says he started the school four and half years ago as an attempt “to revive iconography as living art in the Holy Land” since research suggests that this art form began in the monast...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received in audience on Saturday the French voluntary service agency, “the Catholic Delegation for Cooperation”, which is marking the 50th anniversary of its foundation.Listen to Lydia O’Kane's report: The Catholic Delegation for Cooperation is the international voluntary service agency run by the Church in France and has volunteers on missions in over 50 countries who work in solidarity with local Churches and communities on development projects.Culture of MercyTo mark its 50th anniversary the delegation on Saturday was received by Pope Francis in the Vatican where he told them to promote a culture of mercy.He said this culture needed to be one where “no one looks to the other with indifference or runs away when he sees the suffering of brothers “. Do not be afraid, the Pope told those gathered “to walk the streets of fraternity and to build bridges between peoples…”Through your initiatives, your pl...
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