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(Vatican Radio) Authentic reconciliation between Christians will only be achieved when we can acknowledge each other’s gifts and learn from one another with humility. That was Pope Francis’ message to representatives of all the different Christian Churches gathered in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls on Wednesday afternoon. The Pope was leading Vespers for the solemnity of the Conversion of St Paul and the close of the annual week of prayer for Christian unity.Philippa Hitchen reports: In his homily Pope Francis reflected on the theme for this year’s week of prayer, which is ‘Reconciliation: the love of Christ compels us’. Reconciliation, he said, is a gift from Christ. Prior to any human effort by believers who strive to overcome their divisions, he said, reconciliation is God’s gift given freely to each one of us.“How do we proclaim this Gospel of reconciliation today after centuries of division?”, the Pope asked. St Paul ...
Vatican City, Jan 25, 2017 / 06:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis said having total faith and trust in God means recognizing that he always knows and wants what is best for us, even if it’s hard to accept because it doesn’t align with our own plans.Wednesday, Pope Francis talked about what it means to have total faith and trust in God, acknowledging that he knows what is best, and always wants what is best for us, even if it is often difficult to accept.“Trusting in God means to enter into his designs without demanding anything, even accepting that his salvation and his help should come to us in a different way from our expectations,” he said Jan. 25.The Pope’s catechesis for the general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall centered on the story of Judith in the Old Testament, a woman who was “a great heroine,” he said, and an excellent example of the virtues of faith, hope and trust.In the story, Nebuchadnezzar's army, unde...
Vatican City, Jan 25, 2017 / 07:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced the appointment of two priests from Milwaukee – Fr. Jeffrey R. Haines and Fr. James T. Schuerman – to serve as auxiliary bishops for the archdiocese.The priests have been appointed titular bishops of Tagamuta and of Girba, according to a Jan. 25 Vatican communique.With their appointment, the bishop-elects will serve under Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki, who oversees the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and will replace Bishop Emeritus Richard J. Sklba, who retired in 2010 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.In a press release on the appointments, Archbishop Listecki said it is a “proud moment for the Church in southeastern Wisconsin. By choosing two of our own priests as our new auxiliary bishops, the Holy Father has paid a high compliment to all the priests from this archdiocese.”“In these two humble parish priests, Pope Francis has chosen men with a pastor...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The humble counsel of courageous women should never bedisregarded but rather embraced as advice full of God's divine wisdom, PopeFrancis said.Women like the biblicalheroine Judith arean example of trusting God amid sufferings and difficulties when it is easy to giveup hope and fall into despair, the pope said Jan. 25 during his weekly generalaudience. "Thisis my opinion, but womenare more courageous than men," the pope said to applause.As the popearrived for the audience, the sounds of classical music echoed throughout thePaul VI audience hall as a youth orchestra from Bolivia played for the pope. The Anglican choir of London's Westminster Abbeyand former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also were present and greetedthe pope at the end of the audience.PopeFrancis focused hisaudience talk on Judith, "a woman of great beauty and wisdom," whoreproached the people of Israel for their lack of trust in God to deliver ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After weeks of very public tensionswith the Vatican, the head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta accepted Pope Francis' requestthat he submit his resignation.The order's communications office confirmed Jan. 25 that Fra Matthew Festing, the 67-year-old grand master, metwith Pope Francis the day before and agreed to resign.The Vatican said Jan. 25 that Pope Francis intends to appoint apontifical delegate to govern the order.Festing, who has led the world's largest chivalric ordersince 2008, will submithis resignation Jan. 28 to the order's governing council, according to the order'scommunications office. A short Vatican statement said Festing offered to resignJan. 24 and Pope Francis accepted his offer the next day while "expressingto Fra Festing appreciation and recognition of his sentiments of loyalty anddevotion to the successor of Peter and his openness to humbly serving the goodof the order and the church."The Order of Malta is made up ...
GENEVA (AP) -- Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals because of a doping case involving Jamaican teammate Nesta Carter....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican announced Wednesday it was taking over the embattled Knights of Malta in an extraordinary display of papal power after the leader of the sovereign lay Catholic order publicly defied Pope Francis in a dispute over condoms....
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An outspoken Nebraska state legislator who was fined for having cybersex using a state computer resigned Wednesday after causing further outrage by sending a tweet that implied participants at a women's march were too unattractive to be victims of sexual assault....
AGIOS ATHANASIOS, Greece (AP) -- As a member of a persecuted minority in Iraq, 24-year-old Shaker Mahie has seen his people massacred, raped and scattered across a new continent. Now, the Yazidi - whose faith is older than Christianity - are at the center of a new European dilemma....
GIULIANOVA, Italy (AP) -- A survivor of an Italian avalanche that devastated a mountain hotel says she only learned she had been buried by tons of snow after she was rescued....
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