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(Vatican Radio) The Sovereign Order of Malta held a press conference in Rome on Thursday, to outline what has happened since the resignation of Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing on Saturday 28 January. The Order released the following statement: In a press conference today, the government of the Sovereign Order of Malta has outlined its priorities, following the resignation of Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing on Saturday 28 January. The Grand Chancellor Albrecht Boeselager stated: “Together with the Lieutenant ad interim we are governing the Order according to our constitution and in a united and efficient way”.The government emphasized the Order’s loyalty to the Holy Father. It confirmed the Order’s willingness to collaborate with the Special Delegate. On behalf of the government, Boeselager thanked Pope Francis for his guidance that helped end government crises. He observed that in all his decisions the Pontiff showed respect and regard ...
Savannah, Ga., Feb 2, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A priest who was murdered in 2016 had previously certified that he would not want his murderer executed. Three Catholic bishops say his voice should be heard.The district attorney in Augusta, Georgia is seeking the death penalty for his accused killer.“I request that the person found guilty of homicide for my killing not be subject to or put in jeopardy of the death penalty under any circumstances,” Fr. Rene Robert said in 1995 in a signed and notarized “Declaration of Life” that reflected on the possibility he could be the victim of a capital crime.The man believed to have killed him, Steven Murray, was indicted May 25, 2016 in Georgia by a Burke County Grand Jury for killing the priest April 11, 2016.Father Robert, a retired priest of the Diocese of St. Augustine, had been helping his accused killer for months as part of his prison ministry. Police believe Murray forced the priest into the trunk of his...
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb 2, 2017 / 08:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Dutch doctor who drugged an elderly woman and had her restrained as she fought lethal injection has been cleared by a review panel for “acting in good faith.”The woman, in her 80s, had dementia and had been living in a nursing home and exhibited “fear and anger” at times, and would be found wandering around the building, according to case documents.She had reportedly expressed a desire for euthanasia when “the time was right” at an earlier date, but had not done so recently.The senior doctor at the the nursing home determined that the woman’s condition meant that the time was right, and put a sleep-inducing drug into the woman’s coffee in order to administer the lethal injection without consulting the woman.The woman woke up as the doctor was trying to give the injection, and fought the procedure. The doctor had to ask family members to hold the woman down while she com...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Only packrats would save copies of old newspapers. Or so you would think.But a consortium of librariansand archivists are preserving the Catholic news from the last century.As newspapers age, their pagesget more brittle and fragile. And outdated technologies such as microfilm andmicrofiche keep those newspapers from being readily accessible unless you livenear a big downtown library or a university that still has the machines needed toread that data.Many Catholic newspapers, unliketheir secular daily brethren, were not kept, maintained and preserved with thesame level of passion, save for some diocesan archives.To correct this situation, theCatholic Research Resources Alliance has undertaken a project to digitizenearly a dozen of the United States' top Catholic newspapers of regional andnational importance -- the print runs of which, for some of them, go back formore than a century."Creating a Catholic newsarchive and d...
By WASHINGTON(CNS) -- The chairmen of two bishops' committees expressed disappointment Feb. 1 over President Donald Trump's decision to retain a 2014 executive order by hispredecessor, Barack Obama, that bans federal discrimination on the basis ofsexual orientation and gender identity against federal employees and workersfor federal government contractors.Trump'saction is "troubling and disappointing" said Archbishop Charles J.Chaput of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, FamilyLife and Youth, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the USCCB Ad HocCommittee for Religious Liberty.Theexecutive order, they said in a joint statement, is "deeply flawed." In a July21, 2014, statement, Archbishop Lori and Archbishop Chaput's predecessor as committee chair,Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, labeled the executive order "unprecedentedand extreme and should be opposed."In the2014 statement, Archbishop Lo...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When it comes to helping the poor, themarginalized and refugees, Pope Francis urged Catholics not to mimic the"Mannequin Challenge"by just looking on, frozen and immobile.The video version of his prayer intention for Februarybegins with a street scene of people doing a "Mannequin Challenge," theviral internet craze in which people freeze while music plays in the background.The prayer intention and "The Pope Video"illustrating it are distributed by the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network,formerly known as the Apostleship of Prayer.The intention the pope chose for February is: "That allthose who are afflicted, especially the poor, refugees and marginalized, mayfind welcome and comfort in our communities.""We live in cities that throw up skyscrapers andshopping centers and strike big real estate deals, but they abandon a part ofthemselves to marginal settlements on the periphery," the pope says in thevideo. "The result of this situation is that great s...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump sought prayers Thursday for Arnold Schwarzenegger over ratings for "Celebrity Apprentice" - the show Trump once hosted and which he said has become a "total disaster" since the former California governor took over the franchise....
AMONA, West Bank (AP) -- Israel's prime minister on Thursday vowed to establish a new West Bank settlement "as soon as possible," promising to make up for the court-ordered demolition of an illegal settler outpost....
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) -- Police used a backhoe to breach a building at Delaware's largest prison early Thursday, ending what the governor called a "torturous" hostage standoff that left one guard dead....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warning that religious freedom is "under threat," President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates from the pulpit."...
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