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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....
Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2- 3a, 5-6; Mt. 2: 1-12There was once a holy monk who lived in Egypt. One day a young man came to visit him. The young man asked: "Oh, holy man, I want to know how to find God." The monk was muscular and burly. He said: "Do you really want to find God?" The young man answered: "Oh, but I do." So the monk took the young man down to the river. Suddenly, the monk grabbed the young man by the neck and held his head under water. At first the young man thought the monk was giving him a special baptism. But when after one minute the monk didn’t let go, the young man began struggling. Still the monk wouldn’t release him. Second by second, the young man fought harder and harder. After three minutes, the monk pulled the young man out of the water and said: "When you desire God as much as you desired air, you will have the epiphany of God."Introduction: The Greek word Epiphany (επιφ?νει&a...
In 2017, no longer living in fear but in hope is the message of the Bishop of Manzini in Swaziland to Christians. Bishop Jose Luis Ponce de Leon has used his 2017 New Year message to encourage the Faithful to live lives of hope and not of fear.The Bishop says, “We seem to live lives marked by fear: Fear about the future; Fear to talk…Fear of each other… Fear of foreigners... Fear of other religions…Fear of terrorist attacks…(you might add other fears you are experiencing). Where there is fear, there is no peace. This is our common experience.” According to the Bishop of Manzini, Christians should be people of hope. He adds, “I believe fear paralyses us, while hope makes us work and work together towards something new. It is much more than just not being afraid of something. It is making possible a different present and future.”The Bishop continues, “Hope (as Pope Francis says), ‘opens new horizons, makes one capa...
