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By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesus astonished people with theway he taught and interacted with others because he wasn't aloof, domineeringor hypocritical, Pope Francis said in a homily."Jesus wasn't allergic to people. Touching lepers,the sick did not disgust him,"whereas the Pharisees -- who strolled around in fine clothes -- looked down onthe people and considered them ignorant, he said at the Mass Jan. 10 in thechapel of his residence."They were removed from the people, they weren'tclose," the pope saidof the Pharisees. "Jesus was very close to the people and this gavehim authority."The pope's homily centered on the day's Gospel reading (Mk1:21-28) in which people gathered at the synagogue in Capernaum "wereastonished" at Jesus' teaching because he displayed an authority that differedso greatly from that of the scribes.The people would listen to and be respectful toward the doctorsof the law and the scribes, but the people didn't take what they said "toheart," he said.The...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two large bombings near government offices in Afghanistan's capital on Tuesday killed at least 38 people, including civilians and military personnel, in the deadliest attack by Taliban insurgents in the capital in months....
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof went to a historic black church in Charleston with a gun and a "hateful heart" and should be put to death for opening fire on people who had gathered for Bible study, a prosecutor said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Jeff Sessions cast himself as a strong protector of law and order at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, promising that as attorney general he would crack down on illegal immigration, gun violence and the "scourge of radical Islamic terrorism."...
(Vatican Radio) Jesus had authority because He served the people, He was close to persons and He was coherent, as opposed to the doctors of the law who considered themselves princes. These three characteristics of Jesus’ authority were highlighted by Pope Francis in his homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father noted, on the other hand, that the doctors of the law taught with a clericalist authority: they were far distant from the people, and didn’t live what they preached.The respective authority of Jesus and that of the Pharisees were the two poles around which the Pope’s homily revolved. The one was a real authority, the other was merely formal. The day’s Gospel speaks of the amazement of the people because Jesus taught “as one who has authority” and not like the scribes: they were the authorities of the people, the Pope said, but what they taught didn’t enter into their hearts, while Jesus had a real authority...
