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Vatican City, Jun 16, 2017 / 09:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday, the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ pick of human rights expert Fr. Bruno-Marie Duffé for secretary of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, making him the final piece of the leadership puzzle for the new department.From the French diocese of Lyon, Fr. Duffé's appointment completes a period of development for the dicastery, which went into effect Jan. 1 and combines the former Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace, Cor Unum, Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, and Healthcare Workers.The new mega-dicastery is headed by Cardinal Peter Turkson, who since March 2013 had served as president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Francis also formed a special Migrants and Refugees Section within the dicastery, with himself as head, at least for the time being.With Fr. Duffé's appointment, the leadership of the dicastery is finally complete. Previously, F...
Turin, Italy, Jun 16, 2017 / 10:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A relic of St. John Bosco, which had been stolen from an Italian basilica two weeks ago, has been recovered, the local Prosecutor's Office reported.An urn containing a relic of St. John Bosco’s brain was discovered missing on June 3. The reliquary was kept in the Basilica of John Bosco in Asti, the saint's birthplace, fewer than 20 miles east of Turin.According to Italian press reports, the alleged perpetrator of the crime is a 42-year old man with a criminal record, residing in Pirenolo, Turin. He was arrested by the Asti police. The suspect allegedly planned to sell the reliquary, which he believed to be of solid gold.St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians, was a 19th century Italian priest who had a particular love and apostolate for at-risk and underserved youth. Today, the order serves youth throughout the world primarily in schools, homeless shelters, and community centers.Fr. Enrico Stasi, provincial of t...
Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 16, 2017 / 12:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Beatitudes call us to own our responsibility for suffering in the world, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta preached on Wednesday at a Mass for victims of clergy sexual abuse.Through the Beatitudes, Christ “calls us to see with new eyes how to live in a world so continually filled with sorrow, injustice, and violence,” Archbishop Gregory preached during a June 14 Mass of Prayer and Penance for Healing of Survivors of Clergy Sex Abuse in Indianapolis.Christ also teaches “how important it is to acknowledge our own share in causing or compounding the sorrows, suffering, and violence that often seem to surround us,” he added.Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. bishops' conference, said the Mass at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Indianapolis, on the first day of the bishops’ annual spring general assembly.The Mass was celebrated in response to Pop...
Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 16, 2017 / 04:52 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The US bishops’ annual meeting included on Thursday a discussion on health care, focusing on efforts in Congress to replace the Affordable Care Act.Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, chairman of the domestic justice and human development committee, focused on the underlying principles by which the bishops approach health care.No law should “compel us or others to pay for the destruction of human life,” he said June 15, explaining respect for life, the first of the four “key principles.”The other principles he enumerated were  true access for all, true affordability, comprehensive and high-quality coverage, and no repeal of the Affordable Care Act without an adequate replacement. He also mentioned the importance of conscience protections.He said those seeking health care should be able to do so “in accord with their means” and noted that “immigrants continue to be left out o...
Vatican City, Jun 16, 2017 / 05:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As rumors abound concerning a Vatican commission to reinterpret Humanae vitae in light of Amoris laetitia, the controversial president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has rejected these rumors.“I can confirm that there is no pontifical commission called to re-read or to re-interpret Humanae vitae. However, we should look positively on all those initiatives, such as that of professor Marengo of the John Paul II Institute, which aim at studying and deepening this document in view of the 50th anniversary of its publication,” Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia told CNA.Vatican reporter Marco Tosatti first reported in May, citing unnamed Vatican sources, that Pope Francis had, or was about to, form a “secret commission” to examine and suggest modifications to the Church's teaching on contraception, as laid out in Bl. Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae.And on Wednesday, Roberto de Mattei of Corrisponde...
Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 16, 2017 / 06:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the U.S. bishops discussed immigration at their annual meeting this week, one Syriac Catholic bishop begged them not to forget Christian refugees in Syria and the Middle East.“I need your presence, to feel you are with me,” Bishop Barnaba Yousif Benham Habash of the Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark pleaded with the bishops on Wednesday.“Our people, they do need the presence of the Catholic Church,” he continued. “This is the task of the Catholic Church today, to be the Good Samaritan.”The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met for their annual spring general assembly in Indianapolis June 14-15. Bishop Habash spoke to his fellow bishops during an open floor session after a speech on the spirituality of immigration by Fr. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C., a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame.  The Syrian conflict between the government forces o...
By Natalie HoeferINDIANAPOLIS(CNS) -- Holy Cross Father Daniel Groody stood before the U.S. bishops June 14 andheld up a chalice. It was not special in appearance, but rather in the story ittold.Thechalice was handcrafted primarily with wood from a refugee boat that landedupon the beaches of Lampedusa, the Mediterranean island from which Pope Franciscast a wreath into the waters to remember the thousands of refugees who losttheir lives there, attempting to flee persecution.Thebase of the chalice was formed from mesquite, a common wood along theU.S.-Mexico border crossed by immigrants seeking better lives in America.Together,he said, the materials of the chalice speak to the plight of immigrants, atopic addressed during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' spring assemblyin Indianapolis."Migrationis an incredibly, incredibly complex issue, and those who don't realize itscomplexity either aren't listening, or they don't understand," said FatherGroody, an associate professor of the...
By INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- During their spring meeting inIndianapolis, U.S. bishops were reminded that the upcoming Convocation ofCatholic Leaders -- a gathering they began talking about years ago -- is rightaround the corner.It willbe a historic event, Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, chairmanof the bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, told thebishops June 15 about the July 1-4 "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: TheJoy of the Gospel in America" in Orlando, Florida.He alsonoted that it will be the largest gathering sponsored by U.S. bishops and will bea time to show the unity of the church.Theconvocation, an invitation-only event, is meant to give the 3,000 participantsexpected to attend a better understanding of what it means to be missionarydisciples in today's world through workshop presentations, keynote addressesand prayer.Theplan, from the outset, was to bring Catholic leaders from across the country toclosely examine and figure out how to b...
IMAGE: CNS photo courtesy of the Salesians and Andrea CherchiBy TURIN, Italy (CNS) -- Inside a copper teapot in a kitchencupboard, Italian police found the relic of St. John Bosco that had beenstolen two weeks earlier from the basilica erected at his birthplace.The press office of the Salesians in nearby Turin announcedJune 15 that Italian military police obtained a search warrant and discoveredthe relic early that morning in the home of a 42-year-old Italian manidentified only by the initials C.G.From previous encounters with the law, the man'sfingerprints were on file and they were found on the glass case protecting therelic and reliquary in the lower Basilica of St. John Bosco in the town ofCastelnuovo Don Bosco.Police said they watched and followed the man for severaldays before obtaining a warrant to search his home.The relic, a piece of St. John Bosco's brain, was still inits small glass jar tied with red ribbon. The seal of authenticity was intact,the Salesians said."It appea...
IMAGE: CNS/Carol GlatzBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before students were presented withtheir diplomas in safeguarding minors, they each received a logoed mug as amemento of their time in the Center for Child Protection's intensive program atthe Pontifical Gregorian University.The cup might come in handy because their task ofpromoting child protection will be hard, and "you will be working late, soyou will be drinking lots of tea," psychology professor Katharina Fuchssaid good-heartedly at the start of the informal graduation ceremony. Thegraduates -- 24 men and women from 18 different countries -- would be goingback to their dioceses, bishops' conferences or religious orders to kick-startor strengthen child protection policies and measures.The ceremony, held June 14 at the Gregorian University,included a panel discussion with five post-doctoral students and a posterexhibition of all 24 students' final theses and research. Drew Dillingham ofthe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish...
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