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Madrid, Spain, Feb 13, 2017 / 04:28 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Josefa Rodríguez and Amaro Pesquero were not expecting to receive a letter from Pope Francis.But that's exactly what happened last September, when the Pope himself thanked them in his own handwriting for the donation they had made for the persecuted Christians in the Middle East.Josefa and Amaro are a married couple from Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain, who made a pilgrimage to Rome on the occasion of the Holy Year of Mercy in August 2016.“My wife bought a prayer book on Divine Mercy and got in contact with this apostolate so they could send her more books so she could to give them away to others. Then they informed her that there was going to be a pilgrimage to Rome and we signed up,” Amaro Pesquero told CNA.But in addition to going on pilgrimage for the Jubilee, the retired couple brought a gift that they had gathered together with a lot of effort and that they wanted to give to the Holy Father: a sum of mo...
Springfield, Ill., Feb 13, 2017 / 04:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Catholic advocacy group is warning the governor of Illinois that he will face massive political opposition if he signs an abortion funding bill into law.“Let me be clear. If Governor Rauner signs the bill as written, we will urge our members along with every pro-life voter in the state to support an alternative candidate – or to abstain from voting for his re-election. And we won’t be the only group doing so,” Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, stated on Monday of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R).The Illinois H.B. 40 would allow for the state’s Medicaid recipients to have their abortions covered, as the program currently pays for abortions done in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.Illinois Right to Life has estimated that abortions in the state could increase by 12,000 per year.The bill would also repeal the state’s “trigger” law, which was ena...
Washington D.C., Feb 13, 2017 / 06:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Objectors to abortion need stronger conscience protections in federal law, the U.S. bishops have said in a letter to Congress supporting a bill being considered by Congress.“While existing federal laws already protect conscientious objection to abortion in theory, this protection has not proved effective in practice,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said. They said the proposed Conscience Protection Act of 2017 is essential to protect health care providers’ fundamental rights and ensure that they are not “forced by government to help destroy innocent unborn children.”Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop William Lori, who chairs the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Freedom, backed the legislation in a Feb. 8 letter to Congress.They said the bill would benefit the “great majority” ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Satan is a liar and a cheat whopromises people everything then leaves them with nothing, Pope Francis said athis early morning Mass.In his homily Feb. 10, Pope Francis contrasted the way Eveinteracted with the serpent in the garden of Eden and the way Jesus reacted to the devilafter spending 40 days in the desert.With Eve, "the father of lies" demonstrates how heis a specialist in tricking people, the pope said. First, he makes her feelcomfortable, then he begins a dialogue with her, leading her "step bystep" where he wants her to go."He's a trickster," the pope said. "Hepromises you everything and leaves you naked," like he left Adam and Eve.Jesus, on the other hand, does not enter into a dialoguewith the devil, but responds to his temptations by quoting Scripture, PopeFrancis said."The serpent, the devil, is astute," he said, but"you cannot dialogue with the devil.""We all know what temptations are, we all know becausewe all have them -- tempt...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A nation's health care system cannotbe run simply as a business because human lives are at stake, Pope Francis said."If there is a sector in which the 'throwaway culture'demonstrates its most painful consequences, it is the health care sector,"the pope told patients, medical professionals, pastors and volunteers attendinga meeting sponsored by the Italian bishops' national office for health care ministry.Anticipating the celebration Feb. 12 of the World Day of theSick and marking the 20th anniversary of the bishops' office, the pope saidCatholics obviously give thanks for the advances in medicine and technologythat have enabled doctors to cure or provide better care for the sick.He also praised medical personnel who carry out their workas "ministers of life and participants in the affectionate love of God thecreator. Each day their hands touch the suffering body of Christ, and this is agreat honor and a great responsibility," he said.But, the po...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kamil Krzaczynski, ReutersBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country's refugee resettlement program."We respect the rule of law and the American judicial process. We remain steadfast in our commitment to resettling refugees and all those fleeing persecution," Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, said in a statement Feb. 10."At this time we remain particularly dedicated to ensuring that affected refugee and immigrant families are not separated and that they continue to be welcomed in our country," the statement said.The bishop pledged that church agencies would continue to welcome people "as it is a vital part of our Catholic faith and an enduring element of our American values and traditions."In a decision ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mohammed Badra, EPABy WASHINGTON(CNS) -- Christians and all people in the Middle East need the solidarityof the U.S. Catholic Church, said the chairmen of three committees ofthe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the head of the Catholic Relief Services board."Aconcern for our Christian brethren is inclusive and does not exclude a concernfor all the peoples of the region who suffer violence and persecution, bothminorities and majorities, both Muslims and Christians," said a Feb. 10 statementfrom four bishops."Tofocus attention on the plight of Christians and other minorities is not toignore the suffering of others," the statement said. "Rather, byfocusing on the most vulnerable members of society, we strengthen the entirefabric of society to protect the rights of all."Thegroup included Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the Ad HocCommittee for Religious Liberty; Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico,chairman of the Committee on Internat...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Maria DominguezBy Nancy WiechecFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (CNS) --An immigrant teacher and White House honoree fears President Donald Trump isundermining the community she has fought to lift up."It's only been two,three weeks since he was sworn in and I can see the fear and uncertainty in mystudents and their undocumented parents," said Maria Dominguez, who teachesfirst grade at Rodriguez Elementary School in Austin, Texas."A couple of parents thatI've met with this week have mentioned that they're afraid of what's going tohappen to their children if (the parents) were to be deported," she said in aphone interview with Catholic News Service.Dominguez said some fearthat their children could be placed in foster care and they would not knowwhere they are or how they are doing. Her first-grade students have expressedtheir own anxieties."My kids tell me thatthey don't want to go to Mexico," she said. "They were born here, and most ofthem have never even traveled to their ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- A massive donation of Ethiopian religious manuscripts to The CatholicUniversity of America in Washington makes the school one of the largest holdersof such texts outside Ethiopia.The valueof the donation, by Gerald and Barbara Weiner of Chicago, is estimated to be more than $1 million. The collection includes more than 215 Islamic manuscripts, 125Christian manuscripts, and 350 so-called "magic" scrolls with prayers toprotect the owner or reader from particular illnesses.Whatmakes the manuscripts valuable is that they're handmade, according to AaronButts, an assistant professor of Semitic languages and literature at CatholicUniversity. What makes them rare, he added, is that such texts are rarely seenoutside Ethiopia, and that the East African nation's rainy season often rendersthe books and scrolls unusable or illegible after repeated use. That so manytexts -- most of which date back to the 18th and 19th centuries, wi...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Without commenting on the authenticityof alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Pope Francis has appointed aPolish archbishop to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and thethousands of pilgrims who flock to the town each year.The pope chose Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga as his special envoy to Medjugorje, theVatican announced Feb. 11."The mission has the aim of acquiring a deeperknowledge of the pastoral situation there and, above all, of the needs of thefaithful who go there in pilgrimage, and on the basis of this, to suggestpossible pastoral initiatives for the future," the Vatican announcementsaid.Archbishop Hoser's assignment has "an exclusivelypastoral character," the Vatican said, making it clear his task is separatefrom the work of a commission set up in 2010 by now-retired Pope Benedict XVIto investigate the claims of six young people who said Mary had appeared tothem daily b...
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