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NEW YORK (AP) -- Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent will step down from that role next year and be succeeded by the company's No. 2 executive, at a time when people are drinking less sugary soda including its flagship Coke drink....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The Latest on the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Friday morning, focusing his remarks following the readings of the day on the need for priests to serve as authentic mediators of God’s love, rather than as intermediaries – “go-betweens” or “middle-men” – concerned  only with advancing their own interests.No to “go-between” priests, yest to priests who are mediators of God’s loveThe role of the mediator is not that of the intermediary – and priests are called to be the former for their flock:“The mediator gives himself (lit. perde se stesso) to unite the parties, he gives his life. That is the price: his life – he pays with his life, his fatigue, his work, so many things, but – in this case the pastor - to unite the flock, to unite people, to bring them to Jesus. The logic of Jesus as mediator is the logic of annihilating oneself. St. Paul in his Letter to t...
(Vatican Radio)  The Papal preacher, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, delivered his second Advent Sermon on Friday to Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia.As preacher to the Papal Household, Capucin Father Cantalamessa gives a meditation to the Pope, Cardinals and members of the Roman Curia every Friday morning in Lent and Advent in the Apostolic Palace’s “Redemptoris Mater” Chapel. In the second Advent sermon, Fr. Cantalamessa continued his theme of the Holy Spirit’s action in the Church, focusing on the charism of discernment.Please find below the full text English translation of the Sermon:Second Advent SermonThe Holy Spirit and the Charism of DiscernmentLet us continue our reflections on the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian. Saint Paul mentions a specific charism called “discernment of spirits” (see 1 Cor 12:10). This phrase originally had a very specific meaning: it indicated the gift that made it possible to ...
A new Catholic ecological committee held its first symposium early December  to find ways to activate environmental awareness in Korean parishes and develop an ecological liturgy.The Committee for Ecology and Environment met in order to discuss and implement the pope's encyclical, Laudato si in which Pope Francis critiqued environmental degradation and climate change. Sister Yoon Soon-shim from Caritas said that parishes needed to establish ecology sections or movement groups to work with diocesan-level committees."Until now, the Catholic ecological movement was led by priests. Now it is time for all the faithful in Korea to show their voice as the 'green church,'" she said.Father Timothy Yoon Jong-sik, liturgy professor at Seoul Major Seminary said that they can change the consciousness of their parishioners and insert ecological themes in general prayer intercessions,  add ecology-related scripture readings and compose hymns about preserving the e...
The Social Communications Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has expressed satisfaction over the way Catholic media houses in the country are responding to the audience research training they underwent in August this year.The National Communications Secretary, Fr. Godino Phokoso said this when he and Fr. Andrew Kaufa toured Radio Tuntufye of Karonga Diocese recently. Fathers Phokoso and Kaufa also visited Radio Tigabane FM of Mzuzu.The duo said following the training that was facilitated by Dr Nancy Booker and Graham Mytton from Kenya and the United Kingdom respectively Catholic media houses in Malawi are now able to conduct research and know for themselves how they are faring regarding audience and programming."The training that we went through is now bearing fruit. From our monitoring visit, things are moving on well, and by the end of this exercise our media houses should be able to compete on the market and produce content that is favourable for listen...
Kenya’s Catholic Bishops say they are concerned about the on-going strike action by doctors.The Bishops have said it is unfair for Kenyan doctors to abandon innocent patients and have called on the Government to resolve the stand-off quickly.Kenya’s medical professionals have downed tools citing government’s failure to honour the implementation of a Collective Bargaining Agreement. (Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va)Below is the full statement:Listen To The Voice Of The Suffering Poor“ ...... He took pity on them and healed their sick” (Mt. 14:14)Introduction We the Catholic Bishops of Kenya express our deep concern over the ongoing Doctors and Nurses strike that has caused the Kenyan citizens pain, misery and suffering of unimaginable proportions.Helpless sick and frail people, children and the elderly including premature babies and accident victims have been abandoned to suffer and die in horrifying conditions while medical professionals and G...
Vatican City, Dec 9, 2016 / 05:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday, the Vatican announced that Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown – who was baptized by the famed Archbishop Fulton Sheen – will be taking the helm in the Diocese of Rockville Centre.“I must…thank the priests and the entire people of God of the Diocese of Allentown, where I have had the great blessing of serving as bishop for the last seven-and-a-half years,” Bishop Barres said in a Dec. 9 press release announcing his appointment.“You will all always be in my heart, my memories, my prayers and my Masses as I remember our days of ‘holiness and mission’ together.”A native of Larchmont, N.Y., Bishop Barres, 56, has led the Diocese of Allentown since July 2009, and will take over in Rockville Centre for retiring Bishop William Murphy, who has reached the age limit of 75.His transfer will make him the first bishop of Allentown in their 55-year history to ever be transferre...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- In two long interviews with Jesuitpublications, director Martin Scorsese described his new film"Silence" as a major stage in his pilgrimage of faith, a pilgrimagethat included flunking out of the minor seminary, investigating other religionsand recognizing that the Catholic Church was his home.Growing up in New York, "I was extraordinarily lucky,because I had a remarkable priest, Father (Frank) Principe. I learned so muchfrom him, and that includes mercy with oneself and with others," Scorsesetold Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the journal La Civilta Cattolica."This man was a real guide. He could talk tough, but henever actually forced you to do anything -- he guided you. Advised you. Cajoledyou. He had such extraordinary love," the director said in the interview,published Dec. 9.A day earlier, America magazine released an interview withScorsese conducted by Jesuit Father James Martin, who also pro...
By COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) -- Astronaut legend and decorated World War II pilot John H. Glenn, who served for 24 years in the U.S. Senate and inspired young people to pursue careers in sciences and engineering, died Dec. 8. He was 95. Born in Cambridge and raised in nearby New Concord, Glenn was propelled to fame after being one of seven military test pilots chosen as the country's first astronauts. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit earth when he flew aboard the Mercury Friendship 7 capsule, traversing the globe three times in a flight that lasted just less than five hours Feb. 20, 1962.Among those watching Glenn's first space flight was St. John XXIII, who asked to be kept regularly informed about the progress of flight.Glenn became the oldest man to fly in space, when at age 77 and still a senator, he blasted into orbit on the Space Shuttle Oct. 29, 1998, after lobbying the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for two years that he could serve as a "g...
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