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Vatican City, Nov 22, 2016 / 11:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Death and God’s judgment should be on everyone’s mind, but faithfulness to God will conquer our fears, Pope Francis has said.“Fidelity to the Lord does not disappoint. If each one of us is faithful to the Lord, when death comes, we will say like Francis (of Assisi) 'come sister death...' we won't be afraid,” the Pope said Nov. 22.“And when the day of judgement comes, we will look at the Lord: 'Lord I have many sins but I have tried to be faithful.' And our Lord is good,” he said.“I give you this advice: 'be faithful until death – said the Lord – and I will give you the crown of life.' With this fidelity we won't be afraid of death, when we die we won’t be afraid of the day of judgment.”Pope Francis spoke in his homily for Tuesday morning Mass at the chapel of his Santa Marta residence.Reflecting on the daily reading from the Book o...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bruce Arena is returning to coach the U.S. national soccer team, a decade after he was fired....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Turkey and football will be the main Thanksgiving headliners up on the International Space Station....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Researchers say a severe birth defect caused by Zika infection may not be apparent at birth but develop months afterward, further confirmation that the virus can cause unseen damage to developing babies....
QAYARA, Iraq (AP) -- For months, residents of the Iraqi town of Qayara have lived under a dark cloud of toxic fumes released by oil well fires lit by retreating Islamic State fighters....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump's charity has admitted that it violated IRS regulations barring it from using its money or assets to benefit Trump, his family, his companies or substantial contributors to the foundation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump backs waterboarding and his pick for CIA director has called those who have done it "patriots" not "torturers." Yet a Trump administration faces steep legal and legislative hurdles to reinstate the interrogation practice that simulates drowning....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a campaign filled with Donald Trump's denunciations of "Crooked Hillary" Clinton, the president-elect declared Tuesday that "I don't want to hurt the Clintons; I really don't," and a top adviser said he had no interest in pursuing further investigations....
(Vatican Radio) In an impressive move to introduce a legacy of the Year of Mercy, a Scottish archbishop has launched what is thought to be the world's first GPS-powered Sacrament-finding app.Archbishop Leo Cushley from the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh announced the launch of 'The Catholic App' outside St Peter’s Basilica on 22nd November 2016, surrounded by pilgrims and seminarians from his archdiocese, accompanied by the sound of the Scottish bagpipe.The app will allow users around the archdiocese to find the nearest and soonest opportunities to go to Confession and Holy Mass, as well as Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.The archbishop called the app “a little bit of smart technology that could make a big impact on how the Catholic Church brings the mercy of God and the joy of the Gospel to our contemporary world.”The app will be launched in conjunction with Scottish technology company Musemantik. Dr Maciej Zurawski is the founder and CEO...
(Vatican Radio) The plight of millions of migrants fleeing environmental disasters due to climate change will be addressed at a two-day conference hosted by the Pontifical Lateran University.“The Path” international summit will discuss proposals to Italian and European political leaders on solutions to avert more social disasters caused by environmental catastrophes and will promote a politics of “welcome” to migrants.The international conference, which takes place on 1 and 2 December, will also discuss the outcomes of last week’s “COP22” UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech at which the summit’s president pleaded with US president elect Donald Trump to join the struggle against global warming.According to research by CeSpi, an Italian centre for the study of international politics, about 160 million people between 2008 and 2014 were forced to migrate from their countries because of the disastrous effects of climate change. They...
