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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump's inaugural parade route. Scores were arrested for trashing property and attacking officers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pledging to empower America's "forgotten men and women," Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday, taking command of a deeply divided nation and ushering in an unpredictable era in Washington. His victory gives Republicans control of the White House for the first time in eight years....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Friday with Irish bishops who are in Rome this week on their ad limina visits – the first such visit since 2006.Following the encounter, which lasted for over two hours, some of the bishops came to Vatican Radio to share their impressions and to talk about the most significant challenges facing their Church today.Listen:  Less than half of the bishops meeting with Pope Francis on Friday had been on an ad limina visit before. Yet all of them were clearly impressed by the level of openness and dialogue they discovered in all the offices of the Roman Curia and particularly in their closed door, informal and unscripted conversation with the Pope.Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh is president of the Irish bishops conference:“He said at the beginning, ‘I’ll throw in the ball and let’s see what happens’, so it turned out to be a conversation about the Church in Ireland, about the struggles and challenges we&rsqu...
(Vatican Radio) Friday January 20th marks the day that Donald Trump is sworn in as 45th president of the United States of America, following an election campaign that has deeply divided the nation.Trump will attend a service at St John’s Episcopal Church near the White House and swear the oath of office before delivering his inaugural address on Capitol Hill.He and vice president Mike Pence then lead a parade, under tight security, down Pennsylvania Avenue which is expected to be lined with both supporters and those protesting against the views and policies of the new president.Massimo Faggioli is a historian, author and professor of theology at Villanova University in the United States. He talked to Philippa Hitchen about his expectations for the Trump presidency and the divisions that have also marked the Catholic Church in the lead up to this inauguration dayListen:  Professor Faggioli notes that during the election campaign the majority of American bishops were very...
A 38-meter statue of the Divine Mercy, the tallest so far of Christ depicted this way, was inaugurated  on Thursday in the town of Marilao, 24 kilometers north of the Philippine capital Manila.  The image stands on top a four-storey building inside a shrine, which is a popular destination for pilgrims and devotees of the Divine Mercy. Father Prospero Tenorio, director of the shrine said the project was conceived for devotees "to feel God's mercy by reminding them to live the spirituality of the Divine Mercy."  The Jan. 19 inauguration of the image was one of the highlights of the "pilgrimage of mercy" duing the 4th World Apostolic Congress on Mercy (WACOM4), Jan. 16-20, in Manila.  Father Tenorio said the building of the statue aims to perpetuate the memory of the global event that was held in Asia for the first time.Nigerian Bishop Martin Uzoukwu of Minna and Philippine Bishop Jose Oliveros of Malolos led the inauguration of the im...
Pope Francis on Friday appointed a new bishop to a Diocese in Papua New Guinea.  Fr. Pedro Baquero, ‎the 46-year old Philippine-born Superior of the Salesian Vice-province of Papua New Guinea–Solomon ‎Islands, is the new bishop of Kerema.   The diocese has been without a bishop since April 29, 2013, ‎after the death of Bishop Patrick Taval.  ‎The Salesian priest was born in Manila (Philippines) on September 15, 1970.  After his primary and ‎secondary school with the Salesians Pampanga‎, he entered the Salesian novitiate in 1989 and made his ‎first profession the following year and perpetual profession in 1998. After completing his philosophy ‎and theology studies in Manila he was ordained a priest in 1999.  From the period of his practical ‎training he followed the missionary vocation ad gentes and worked in Papua New Guinea in various ‎capacities.  Fr. Pedro served as the Salesian Superior Delegate o...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent his support to the March for Life taking place in Paris, France on 22 January 2017.The message was went through the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Archbishop Luigi, who said the Holy Father sent his greetings to the participants of the pro-life march.“The Church must never tire of being an advocate for life and must not neglect to proclaim that human life is to be protected unconditionally from the moment of conception until natural death,” the Message said, quoting Pope Francis’ words to the Bishops of Germany on 11 November 2015."Beyond this legitimate manifestation in defense of human life, the Holy Father encourages participants in the March for Life to work tirelessly for the building of a civilization of love and a culture of life,” the Message concluded.
Vatican City, Jan 20, 2017 / 08:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta of Panama officially announced the dates of the next World Youth Day, which is set to take place in January, rather than July as is usual, due to the weather.He made the announcement during a Jan. 20 news conference in the country's capital, Panama City, during which he also reiterated the gratitude of the Panamanian Church to Pope Francis for choosing Panama to host WYD in 2019.According to a communique from the archdiocese, the bishop explained that the decision to choose Jan. 22-27 for the dates of the gathering, rather than holding it in July as is traditionally done, was done for reasons primarily linked to the climate and weather.Speaking directly to youth, Ulloa said “you are the true protagonists of this World Youth Day. Panama awaits you with an open heart and with open arms to share the faith, to feel that you are the Church!”Pope Francis announce...
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Like many concerned about what DonaldTrump has said about women and his various and changing positions on abortion,Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa decided she wanted to take part in the Jan. 21 Women'sMarch on Washington, protesting the new president on the day after hisinauguration as the country's 45th leader.She and about 50 others from the New Wave Feminists, a pro-lifegroup against abortion, war, the death penalty and other issues, had planned tojoin the crowd to make their voices heard and even wanted to be listed aspartners in the march's official roster."We were going to send a message that we were going to beholding Trump accountable," Herndon-De La Rosa said in a Jan. 19 interview withCatholic News Service.While officials with the Women's March, a conglomeration ofgroups dealing with issues ranging from equal pay for women, against sexdiscrimination and violence against women, said they would march to defend themarginalized, Herndon-De La Ros...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- God forgives and forgets the faults ofrepentant sinners, unless they keep reminding him of their errors by pretending they have no need to change, Pope Francis said.The new covenant in Jesus Christ, the new relationship Godwants to establish with each person, is sealed by being "faithful to thiswork the Lord does to change our mentality, to change our hearts," thepope said Jan. 20 during his morning Mass.Being a Christian, he said, is making a commitment tochanging one's life by "not sinning again or reminding the Lord of thatwhich he has forgotten." The pope preached on the day's reading from the Letter tothe Hebrews, which says God will write his laws on the heartsof believers, "will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins nomore.""Sometimes I like to think -- joking with the Lord abit -- 'You don't have a very good memory.' It is God's weakness that when heforgives, he forgets," the pope said.By writing his laws on people's hearts, he...
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