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WASHINGTON-- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offers condolences, prayers and words of support for those involved in this weekend's bombings in Cairo, Turkey and Somalia as well as the Church roof collapse in Nigeria.  Full statement follows: As we enter the Third Week of Advent, we are reminded that even the shadow of violence and terrorism cannot obscure the light of our coming Savior. St. Mark himself was no stranger to the persecution of Christians. Those who gathered to worship the Lord at his cathedral this morning in Cairo are family to us. We draw near to our Coptic brothers and sisters in prayer, sorrow and comfort. And we are confident in the healing power of our Lord Jesus Christ. The lives lost strengthen the faith of Christians everywhere and offer a testament to the great privilege of worshiping God in peace. This weekend has witnessed the darkness of violence reach into many places, includi...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a letter to the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, through Cardinal Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, appealing for "an end to the violence and the peaceful resolution of hostilities" in the country.A comuniqué from the Holy See Press Office released on Monday read as follows:"In naming Archbishop Mario Zenari to the College of Cardinals, the Holy Father sought to show a particular sign of affection for the beloved Syrian people, so sorely tried in recent years."In a letter sent through the new Cardinal, Pope Francis expressed again his appeal to President Bashar al-Assad and to the international community for an end to the violence, and the peaceful resolution of hostilities, condemning all forms of extremism and terrorism from whatever quarter they may come, and appealing to the President to ensure that international humanitarian law is fully respected with regard to the protection of the civilians and acc...
(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Monday evening in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas.In his homily for the celebration, Pope Francis reflected on how the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe reminds us that we are not orphans, saying she teaches us to look on our brothers and sisters with her eyes full of love.The Holy Father said, “We must certainly learn from [her] receptive and servile faith… learn from this faith which knows how to insert itself within history to be salt and light in our lives and in our societies.”In contrast, he lamented the current direction of human society, which he said is “ever more marked by signs of division,” calling it “a society of distrust”.“A society which likes to boast of its scientific and technological advances but which has turned a blind and insensitive eye to the thousands of faces which get lost on the way, excluded b...
Vatican City, Dec 12, 2016 / 10:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday, Pope Francis celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, pointing to Mary’s faith not as the result of false ideal where everything is rosy, but rather of unwavering strength particularly when life is at its worst.“In Mary we find the faithful reflection not of a poetically sweetened faith, but of a strong faith especially at a time when the sweet enchantments of things are broken and there are contradictions in conflict everywhere,” the Pope said Dec. 12, marking the Marian feast.He stressed that we should learn from this “strong and helpful faith that characterized and characterizes our Mother; to learn from this faith that knows how to get inside history so as to be salt and light in our lives and in our society.”Pope Francis celebrated Mass marking the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The celebration featured special elements typical of Mexico’s indigenous regions, in...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the feast of Our Lady ofGuadalupe, Pope Francis described Mary as a strong woman who inspires believersto give "flesh to the Gospel" in societies often marked by distrustand blindness."To look at the Guadalupana is to remember that the presenceof the Lord always passes through those who manage to make his word flesh, whoseek to embody the life of God within themselves, becoming living signs of hismercy," Pope Francis said Dec. 12 during an evening Mass marking the feastday.The Mass began with a procession of the flags of the nationsof South, Central and North America -- a sign that Our Lady of Guadalupe ispatroness of the Americas.Like the U.S. bishops' had asked their faithful to do, the pope'sMass included a special prayer "for our Hispanic brothers and sisters andfor the migrants of our lands that their dignity would be recognized andprotected" and that their family unity and social and ecclesial integrationw...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Snow and freezing rain made for messy commutes and closed hundreds of schools Monday as a snowstorm pushed into the Northeast....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish authorities arrested more than 200 people Monday following suicide bombings near an Istanbul stadium that killed 44 people. The arrests primarily targeted members of a Kurdish political party that already was a focus of a broader government crackdown....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian rebels retreated from former strongholds in eastern Aleppo in a "terrifying" collapse Monday, holding onto a small sliver of territory packed with fighters and thousands of civilians as government troops pressed on with their rapid advance....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In claiming that he scored "a massive landslide victory" in last month's presidential election, Donald Trump turned history upside down....
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