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(Vatican Radio) An international conference is set to take place in the Vatican for business leaders with the goal of promoting economic and social inclusion.The conference – hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC) – takes place 17-18 November and follows a 2014 conference attended by Pope Francis.Business executives from several multinational corporations and Church leaders will reflect on ways to “create a working environment based on the principles of the Christian social thought, including solidarity, subsidiarity and the pursuit of the Common Good”.Listen to Devin Watkins' report: Business executives and Church leaders are set to meet in the Vatican this week to work together for social inclusion and to put into practice the principles of Catholic social teaching.The international conference carries the title: ‘Business Leaders as Agents of Economic an...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Offering counsel and admonishing sinners are works ofmercy, but they are not a license to pretend to be better than others, PopeFrancis said.Tocounsel others is a chance to see how well you, too, measure up to essentialstandards, he said Nov. 16 to people gathered in St. Peter's Square.In his final general audience during the Year of Mercy, which was to close Nov.20, Pope Francis reflected on two verses in the Gospel of St. Luke (6:41-42) inwhich Jesus warns against the hypocrisy of noticing "the splinter in yourbrother's eye," but not perceiving "the wooden beam in your own.""Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; thenyou will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye," Jesussays.Those verses and Jesus' vision of leadership as service, thepope said, help guide Christians in how to carry out the works of mercytraditionally described as instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtfu...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee outside of Oklahoma City's airport likely killed the victim in retaliation for circumstances that led to the attacker leaving his job with the airline last year, police said Wednesday....
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a stirring appeal Wednesday to all countries - including his own - to press ahead with the fight against climate change, saying a failure to do so would be a "betrayal of devastating consequences."...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota police officer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Philando Castile, a black man whose girlfriend streamed the gruesome aftermath of the fatal shooting live on Facebook, prosecutors announced Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Wednesday to be majority leader next year, keeping the tough legislative tactician at the forefront when the new Congress begins working on Donald Trump's agenda....
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Supporters of the International Criminal Court appealed for unity Wednesday in the aftermath of three African nations announcing plans to withdraw and Russia symbolically turning its back on the court....
NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) -- Heavy fighting broke out in Mosul's eastern Tahrir neighborhood on Wednesday, where Iraqi special forces said a suicide car bomber from the Islamic State group disabled an Abrams tank belonging to the Iraqi army....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian government warplanes and artillery pounded rebel-held districts of Aleppo for the second day Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and damaging two hospitals, a blood bank and several residential buildings in the city's eastern neighborhoods....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Pushing back against the forces of isolationism, President Barack Obama stood at the birthplace of democracy on Wednesday and declared it's time for a "course correction" to ensure that the benefits of technology and globalization are more broadly shared....
