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GUATAPE, Colombia (AP) -- Scuba divers on Monday continued searching for bodies in a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin where a tourist boat packed with more than 150 passengers capsized, leaving at least seven people dead and 13 missing....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican leaders added a penalty for people who've let their insurance lapse Monday as party leaders prepared to begin pushing their health care measure through the Senate, despite a rebellion within GOP ranks....
(Vatican Radio)  The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, on Monday made a declaration regarding the case of Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou in China, who was "forcibly removed from his episcopal see some time ago".The statement affirmed that: "The diocesan Catholic community and his relatives have no news or reasons for his removal, nor do they know where he is being held."Mr. Burke went on to say the Holy See is "profoundly saddened for this and other similar episodes that unfortunately do not facilitate ways of understanding, expresses the hope that Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin may return as soon as possible to the diocese and that he can be assured the possibility of serenely exercising his episcopal ministry."Finally, he said all are "invited to pray for Bishop Shao Zhumin and for the path of the Catholic Church in China."
(Vatican Radio) As the process of review and renewal of the structures of the Roman Curia continues, Church leaders, educators, local reformers, and observers – along with bishops, priests, religious men and women and lay faithful all around the world – are trying to understand what Pope Francis is asking of them, specifically.Will Pope Francis Pull It Off? is the title of a book by Fr. Rocco D’Ambrosio, a priest of the Diocese of Bari and Ordinary Professor of Political Philosophy in the School of Sociology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.Click below to hear our extended conversation with Prof. Rocco D'Ambrosio Originally published by Liturgical Press in 2015 in Italian under the title, Ce la farà Francesco?, the slim, insightful volume seeks to bring the challenges facing the project and its leader, Pope Francis, into better focus.The result is an institutional analysis of the Catholic Church in the present day, which offers provocative insigh...
(Vatican Radio)  Cardinal Peter Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, released the following message on the occasion of the International Day against Abuse and Illicit Trafficking of Drugs.Please find below the full text of the message:The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs, established by the United Nations, is an important opportunity for drawing attention to the fact that narcotics continue to “rage in impressive forms and dimensions”.[1] It is a phenomenon that is fuelled – not without concessions and compromises on the part of institutions – by “a shameful market that crosses national and continental borders”,[2] intertwined with mafias and drug trafficking.Nowadays we are faced with a scenario of profoundly changed dependencies, compared to the recent past.[3] Drugs have become a consumer product made compatible with everyday life, with leisure activity and ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday told believers not to look to horoscopes or to consult fortune-tellers to foresee the future; but to allow God to guide them in a journey full of surprises.The Pope was speaking during the last Santa Marta Mass of the season before the summer holidays and his return from an apostolic visit to Colombia in September.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Inviting Christians not to be “too settled, stationary, fixed,” Pope Francis reflected on the liturgical reading of the day in which God asks Abraham to leave his country, his homeland, his father’s house and go forth with his kinsfolk, and Abraham – who was seventy five years old – went, as the Lord directed him. “There is a Christian life-style” the Pope said, “a life-style based on three dimensions: “renunciation”, “promise” and “blessing”."To be a Christian always implies this dimension of strippin...
Vatican City, Jun 26, 2017 / 07:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the Vatican issued a statement on the situation of the Chinese Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou, who has not been returned since being forcibly removed from his diocese by the Chinese state May 18.“The Holy See is observing with grave concern the personal situation of Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou, forcibly removed from his episcopal see some time ago,” read the June 26 statement by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke.The Catholic community of the diocese and his family and friends remain with no news of the bishop’s whereabouts or of the reason for his removal, the statement continued.The Vatican-approved Bishop Shao, who is not recognized by the Chinese government, was summoned by their religious bureau on May 18 and has since not been heard from or returned, La Croix International reports.Following canon law, the Vatican confirmed Bishop Shao as the successor of the Wenz...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Christian faith leaders pledged anew to build a "circle ofprotection" around vital social programs identified for deep spending cutsunder President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget, saying their action is consistentwith biblical principles.Comingtogether during a news conference at the National Press Club June 21, morethan a dozen leaders, including representatives of the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops and Catholic Charities USA, lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a unified frontto defend a broad array of domestic and international aid programs that, they argued,sustain life.They usedstrong language in criticizing planned cuts in food and nutrition, education,elderly services, health care, air and water protection, employment trainingand more. They said they feared that people will be harmed or even die if the budgetas proposed is adopted."Thereis a troubling momentum at this time in Washington, D.C., for cr...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cancer prevention programs andcampaigns need to reach everyone, Pope Francis said."Spreading a culture of life -- made up of attitudesand behaviors -- is greatly needed, a true culture (that is) of the people,serious, accessible to everyone and not based on commercial interests," hesaid in an address to members of the Italian League for the Fight AgainstTumors June 26.The pope praised the volunteer organization, whichpromotes education, prevention, research and support for those with cancer andtheir families.He said their service represented a constant"decentralization toward the peripheries," emphasizing that the"peripheries" include any person who is marginalized by society orother people, and those who may be forced to compromise or abandon their daily routineand relationships because of illness.Taking care of those who are ill "is a pricelessrichness for society," he said, and reminds both the church and civilso...
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican expressed "graveconcern" over the situation of a bishop in mainland China who has been ingovernment custody for almost 10 months and moved repeatedly in an apparentattempt to prevent him from assuming leadership of his diocese.BishopPeter Shao Zhumin had been coadjutor bishop of Wenzhou and should have taken over leadership ofthe diocese in September when his predecessor died. Instead, officials took himto northern China "on a trip.""The Holy See is following with grave concern thepersonal situation of Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou, forcibly removedfrom his episcopal see some time ago," said Greg Burke, director of the Vaticanpress office, in a statement June 26."The diocesan Catholic community and his relatives haveno news or reasons for his removal, nor do they know where he is being held,"Burke said.The treatment of Bishop Zhumin "and other similarepisodes," Burke said, do not foster the kind of under...
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