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The Vatican has created new email addresses for well wishers to leave Birthday messages for the Pope. Pope Francis turns 80 years old on December 17th. According to his staff, Pope Francis will be working “just as normal” on the day itself. He will reveive the President of Malta in an audience and will later meet with the Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, Cardinal Marc Oullet, as well as other guests and dignitaries. He will also celebrate Mass in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican, along with those Cardinals who are living and working in Rome. Seven new Vatican email addresses have been created, to allow well wishers to leave Birthday messages for the Pope. Messages can be left in Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish and Latin.The email addresses are: Papafranciscus80@vatican.va  (Latin)  PapaFrancesco80@vatican.va   (Italian)  PapaFrancisco80@vatican.va  (Spanish / Portuguese)  PopeFranci...
Pope Francis has appointed a new Bishop of Dallas, Texas. Bishop Edward James Burns, presently serving as Bishop of Juneau in Alaska, has been selected to lead the Catholic community in the North East Texan city. The Diocese has been without a Bishop since August, 2016, when Pope Francis transferred the then-Bishop Kevin Farrell to the Vatican to lead the New Dicastry for Laity, Family and life. Bishop Farrell was later made a Cardinal.Bishop Edward James Burns was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1957. He was Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1983. He served in a number of pastoral roles within the Diocese, including Rector of the Saint Paul Seminary in Pittsburgh. He was also a member of the US conference of Catholic Bishops, focusing on Vocations and religious life. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Juneau in Alaska in 2009. He also took on more responsibility at the Bishops Conference, serving as chairman of the Committee on the protection...
More than a thousand Catholics witnessed the Beatification of 17 martyrs of Laos in the Sacred Heart Cathedral of the capital Vientiane, Sunday morning. Filipino Cardinal Orlando Quevedo, Archbishop of Cotabato led the Beatification Mass, which was also attended by government officials wearing traditional garb, seated in the front rows, as well as two cardinals, several bishops and many priests.  With some 60,000 Catholics making up just 1% of the country’s nearly 7 million population, the turnout was high with many people following the liturgy from a giant screen outside the cathedral.   The group of 17 martyrs known as  “Joseph Tien and his 16 companions” were killed for their faith between 1954 and 1970 at the hands Communist Pathet Lao forces. Six of them were Laotians, ten were priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) and one was Italian Oblate of Mary Immaculate (OMI) priest Fr.  Mario Borzaga, who was killed in 1960 alon...
Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State group accepted the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights on Tuesday and said they would continue to be a voice for others suffering a similar fate.  Lamiya Aji Bashar, 18, said the EU's top human rights prize was one ``for every woman and girl who has been sexually enslaved'' by IS.  With poignant testimony that silenced EU lawmakers, she and 23-year-old Nadia Murad spoke of their personal fate and escape. The focus of their message, however, was a demand that the international community protect their people, a minority of 500,000 living primarily in northern Iraq.Hundreds of Yazidi women and girls are still captives of IS militants in Iraq and Syria. The Yazidi follow an ancient religion that IS and other Muslim hard-liners consider heretical.The award, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 to honor individuals or groups who defend human right...
The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC), the association of bishops of various Catholic rites in southern India’s Kerala state has taken a critical look at the Indian government’s demonetization programme and the campaign for a cashless economy.  In a statement issued at the conclusion of the winter conference of the KCBC at the Pastoral Orientation Centre in Kochi, the Bishops’ Council has urged the government to alleviate sufferings of people followingthe banning of 500 and 1000-rupee notes. It cautioned the authorities to be vigilant against the banking system being turned into a mechanism for exploitation of the common man.The council pointed out that investment of the money mobilised from the rural and backward sectors in the urban-oriented large enterprises would result in widening the urban-rural divide.  This would create a situation whereby the villages would be exploited for the benefit of the cities. It wanted the government to take...
Westchester, N.Y., Dec 12, 2016 / 11:02 pm (CNA).- What if proof for God's existence – and our very souls – could be found within our DNA?Published in September of this year by Howard Books, Bruce Buff's novel “The Soul of the Matter” is the first in his three-part fictional series that grapples with faith and reason. In an interview with CNA, Buff discussed his reasons and inspirations behind this unique thriller. He reflected on how his faith has affected this novel, the importance behind faith and reason, and the influences which have gone into the creation of his new book.Below is the full text of the interview:CNA: What is your faith background, and how does it inform the novel?Buff: I'm a practicing Catholic whose initial faith formation – grammar school religious ed and two years of Catholic high school – was enough to teach me the basics though without a lot of understanding. I had this view that if I was generally good to othe...
Vatican City, Dec 13, 2016 / 08:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After what was a very short vacancy for the Diocese of Dallas, the Vatican announced Tuesday that Bishop Edward J. Burns of Juneau will now take the reigns.He will replace Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who led the Dallas Diocese since 2007, but in September moved to Rome as the new head of the Vatican dicastery for Laity, Family and Life.Farrell was also one of three US bishops appointed cardinal during the latest Consistory, which took place Nov. 19 at the Vatican. Burns, 59, has been Bishop of Juneau, Alaska since 2009, and will be installed in Dallas Feb. 9, 2017, at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Dec. 13 Vatican communique said. “I am extremely happy and humbled that Pope Francis has chosen me to lead such an important diocese and I look forward to serving the local Church of the Diocese of Dallas,” Bishop Burns said in a statement announcement his appointment. “I am profoundly...
Vatican City, Dec 13, 2016 / 09:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On hearing of the Dec. 12 death of Bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Pope Francis sent a telegram Tuesday expressing his deep sympathy to the members of the organization and to Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz Braña, auxiliary vicar.“I wish to make known to you and to all members of this prelature my deepest condolences,” the Pope wrote Dec. 13, “at the same time that I unite to your action of giving thanks to God for his paternal and generous witness of his priestly and episcopal life.”Bishop Echevarría died in Rome Dec. 12 in the evening at the age of 84, several days after being hospitalized with pneumonia.According to a Dec. 12 statement from the personal prelature, Bishop Echevarría was given the final sacraments that afternoon by his auxiliary, Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz.“Bishop Echevarría was receiving an antibiotic to fight ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As Christmas approached, St. Peter'sSquare was filled with balloons, singing and an incredible variety of BabyJesus figurines -- everything from plastic figures that would fit in a walnutshell to those that were larger-than-life sized.For Pope Francis, the most important ingredient in the mixwas joy.Reciting the Angelus Dec. 11 and blessing the Baby Jesusstatues children brought for their home or school Nativity scenes, the popeinsisted that the true meaning of Christmas should bring Christians a deep andabiding sense of joy.Unlike "superficial happiness" or even thegiddiness shopping can bring, he said, "it is a joy that touches the depthsof our being while we await Jesus, who already has come to bring salvation tothe world, the promised Messiah, born in Bethlehem of the Virgin Mary.""God entered history to free us from slavery to sin; hepitched his tent among us to share our existence, heal our wounds, bandage ourinjuries...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis urgedSyrian President Bashar Assad to do everything possible to end the war in hiscountry, to protect civilians and to ensure humanitarian agencies can deliveremergency aid to the people.Syria's SANA news agency reported Assad metDec. 12 with new Cardinal Mario Zenari, the papal nuncio to Syria, and that thecardinal delivered a letter from the pope.The Vatican confirmed the news a few hourslater, saying in a statement that "in naming Archbishop Mario Zenari tothe College of Cardinals, the Holy Father sought to show a particular sign ofaffection for the beloved Syrian people, so sorely tried in recent years.""In a letter sent through the newcardinal," the Vatican statement said, "Pope Francis expressed againhis appeal to President Bashar al-Assad and to the international community foran end to the to the violence" and for a "peaceful resolution ofhostilities, condemning all forms of extremism and terrorism from ...
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