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(Vatican Radio) Tuesday January 2nd marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of a religious institute known as the Marist Brothers of the Schools. The institute currently counts over three thousand brothers, working alongside lay associates in schools and other youth ministries in more than 80 countries around the world.Philippa Hitchen reports:On  January 2nd 1817, French priest Fr Marcellin Champagnat founded an institute called the ‘Little Brothers of Mary’, with the goal of educating and evangelizing young people, especially those most in need.In a video message, marking the bicentenary, the current general superior, Brother Emili Turú speaks about the three attitudes of gratitude, forgiveness and commitment which characterize members of the institute today  While giving thanks for the work of their founder and the dedication of past members, he says, it is also vital to ask forgiveness for the suffering caused by the abuse of children and the f...
(Vatican Radio) On Thursday, 5 January, the Vigil of Epiphany, Pope Francis will meet at the Vatican with victims of the devastating earthquakes that struck central Italy in the course of the past year.Almost 300 people were killed in an earthquake that struck near the town of Amatrice on August 24. Just over two months later, a series of quakes struck the same region, including a magnitude 6.6 earthquake on October 30 - the largest quake to strike Italy in over thirty years. Only two people died in the October quakes, although a number of towns, including Norcia, the birthplace of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica, suffered serious damage. The Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Renato Boccardo, said the meeting with the Pope “is dedicated especially to those who lost their loved ones, their homes, their economic security, those who have been displaced from their land.” The Pope, he said, wanted to welcome especially those who, in different ways, have been wounded by the q...
Archbishop Villegas during his New Year’s Eve homily, has attacked President Duterte for supporting the proposed revival of the death penalty and for the spate of drug-related killings in Philippines. Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of the Philippine bishops' conference said, "If the law for the re-imposition of death penalty is approved by Congress, the president of the Philippines will kill people, mostly indigents who cannot afford to pay lawyers in their judicial fight specially those accused in drug pushing and other crimes".In his New Year's Eve homily, the Lingayen-Dagupan archbishop urged Catholics to help the country's bishops in opposing the re-imposition of the death penalty and condemn the government's war on drugs which he said has victimized innocent people.Archbishop Villegas urged Catholics in his archdiocese to ask their congressmen not to vote for the re-imposition of the death penalty, saying that most of those who ma...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Raminder Pal Singh, EPABy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Stand up and protect children fromexploitation, slaughter and abuse, which includes committing to a policy of "zerotolerance" of sexual abuse by clergy, Pope Francis told the world'sbishops.Wake up to what is happening to so many of today'sinnocents and be moved by their plight and the cries of their mothers to do everythingto protect life, helping it "be born and grow," he said in a lettersent to bishops commemorating the feast of the Holy Innocents, Dec. 28. TheVatican press office published the letter and translations from the original ItalianJan. 2.Just as King Herod's men slaughtered young children ofBethlehem in his "unbridled thirst for power," there are plenty ofnew Herods today -- gang members, criminal networks and "merchants ofdeath" -- "who devour the innocence of our children" throughslave labor, prostitution and exploitation, he said. Wars and forced immigrationalso strip children of their inn...
RUMSON, N.J. (AP) -- "The Boss" is questioning whether President-elect Donald Trump is ready to take office....
BERLIN (AP) -- An annotated edition of "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto, has become a non-fiction best-seller in Germany. The publisher said Tuesday that a sixth print run will go on sale later this month....
MADRID (AP) -- Guards on the border of Ceuta, Spain's enclave in North Africa, say they have recently detained one Moroccan suspected of attempting to smuggle migrants concealed in a suitcase and another suspected of hiding migrants in a car....
Crews were assessing damage Tuesday in the aftermath of storms that killed at least five people and brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Southeast....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish state media aired new footage on Tuesday of a man believed to be the gunman who killed 39 people at a nightclub, showing a grim selfie video of the suspect as he circles Istanbul's most famous square....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump criticized House Republicans Tuesday for making one of their first acts a vote to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, arguing that tax reform and health care should be higher priorities....
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