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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is taking his first steps aimed at scaling back financial services regulations, and the Republican-run Congress cast a vote early Friday signaling that it's eager to help....
Vatican Weekend for February 4th, 2017 features a review of Pope Francis’ General Audience, an interview on migration and refugee issues that are making the headlines with a theologian from Notre Dame University and the first part of a special program exploring the history of the signing of the 1929 Lateran Pacts that brought the Vatican City State into being.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges: 
Vatican Weekend for February 5th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus 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) Pope Francis sent his greetings on Friday to the participants in the XVI World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, taking place from 2 to 5 February in Bogotá, Colombia.Pope Francis encouraged participants “in their efforts to promote understanding and dialogue among peoples”.He made special mention of the peace efforts in Colombia between the government and rebel forces, saying they “can inspire all communities to rise above animosity and division, for ‘when victims of violence are able to resist the temptation to retaliate, they become the most credible promoters of nonviolent peacemaking.’”The Holy Father concluded his message invoking ‘blessings of wisdom and strength’ on all participants.“With prayers that nonviolence will thus become the “hallmark of our decisions, our relationships and our actions, and indeed of political life in all its forms” (Message for the 2017 World Day of Peace), Hi...
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin continued his visit to Africa this week, travelling on Wednesday to the Republic of Congo for the signing of a framework agreement on Church-State relations between Brazzaville and the Holy See.During the eleven day trip, the cardinal also visited Madagascar to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations and made a short stop in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.At the Nunciature in Brazzaville Cardinal Parolin met with the nine local bishops who spoke of the difficulties they face, including problems of violence and instability throughout the region.On Thursday morning the Vatican Secretary of State met with Congolese foreign minister Jean Claude Gakosso who recalled the pastoral visit made by Pope John Paul II in 1980. He also expressed his government’s appreciation for the Church’s extensive work in the fields of education, health care and social services, as well as the role of the Church in promoting re...
Vatican City, Feb 3, 2017 / 07:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While divisions between the Vatican and the Society of St. Pius X still exist, representatives from both sides have said the proposal of a personal prelature appears to be the best option for manifesting unity, and steps are already being taken to study it.The SSPX believes “that the Roman authorities consider the personal prelature to be the canonical structure which best reflects our real situation,” Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society, said in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published Feb. 3.And when it comes to the Society themselves, he said, “we also think that the personal prelature is the most appropriate regimen for the Society in the current circumstances.”A personal prelature, which is a Church jurisdiction without geographical boundaries designed to carry out particular pastoral initiatives, has been on the table for the SSPX for years. At present, the only per...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When religious orders focus onsurvival rather than on sharing the joy and hope of faith in Jesus, they end upbeing "professionals of the sacred, but not fathers and mothers,"Pope Francis said."The temptation of survival turns what the Lordpresents as an opportunity for mission into something dangerous, threatening,potentially disastrous," the pope told consecrated men and women whojoined him Feb. 2 for Mass on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and theWorld Day for Consecrated Life.Speaking as a fellow member of a religious order, PopeFrancis urged religious to keep alive the faith, hope and audacity of the men andwomen who founded the orders to which they belong."We are heirs to those who have gone before us and hadthe courage to dream," he said during the Mass, which began with theblessing of candles celebrating the presentation of Christ as the light of theworld.The feast day Gospel reading from St. Luke tells the storyof Mary and Jose...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the proposed four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline. (all times local):...
A top aide to President Donald Trump said Friday she misspoke when she cited a 2011 "massacre" in Kentucky that never happened....
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