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Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 02:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis asked pilgrims in Fatima on Friday evening to think about the qualities the Virgin Mary possesses, being careful not to make her into something she is not – especially elevating her mercifulness above that of her Son.“Pilgrims with Mary … but which Mary? A teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a Lady ‘unapproachable’ and impossible to imitate?”“The Virgin Mary of the Gospel, venerated by the Church at prayer, or a Mary of our own making: one who restrains the arm of a vengeful God; one sweeter than Jesus the ruthless judge; one more merciful than the Lamb slain for us?” Pope Francis asked May 12.It is through Mary’s cooperation and participation in salvation that she also became a channel of God’s mercy, he explained, praying that with Mary, we might “eac...
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 04:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At a vigil Mass with tens of thousands gathered in the Portugal town of Fatima, Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivered a homily stressing the Virgin Mary’s desire to console all humanity and to have humanity join her in prayer against evil.“In the midst of great concern and uncertainty about the future, what does Fatima ask of us? Perseverance in the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, shown daily by the recitation of the Rosary.”If wars continue in spite of our prayers, he said, we should persevere in prayer.“Prayer is never useless,” he stressed. “Sooner or later, it will bear fruit. Prayer is capital in the hands of God, he turns it to good account in his times and ways, which are very different from our own.”Cardinal Parolin, who is the Vatican Secretary of State, spoke ahead of the May 13 centenary of the beginning of the Marian apparitions at Fatima. Pope Francis is visit...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Marietta Jaeger-Lane has faced the deathpenalty issue head-on.In 1973,when her 7-year-old daughter was kidnapped during a family camping trip inMontana and murdered by her captor, the mother of five said she would have killed the person who did it withher "bare hands.""Butmy Catholic faith calls me to something different," she said, explaininghow she came to a change her opinion on the death penalty, which she likened toa "wrestling match where God won."Jaeger-Lane,speaking to reporters in a May 11 press call officially launching the National CatholicPledge to End the Death Penalty, said most people have "a gut levelresponse to acts of extreme violence, but when they are educated on the realityof the death penalty, they begin to rethink their position."Shetold reporters that her daughter's kidnapper called her a year to the day ofthe kidnapping and was arrested soon after, but she asked the prosecutor for thealternative sentence of mandatory ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesFATIMA, Portugal (CNS) -- Mary's example of believing andfollowing Jesus is what matters most; she cannot be some image "of our ownmaking" who Christians barter with for mercy, Pope Francis said. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Marianapparitions at Fatima, the pope asked tens of thousands of pilgrims May 12 toreflect on "which Mary" they choose to venerate, "the virginMary from the Gospel" or "one who restrains the arm of a vengefulGod?"Is the Mary they honor "a woman blessed because shebelieved always and everywhere in God's words or a 'plaster statue' from whomwe beg favors at little cost?" he asked. As the sun set at the shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima,pilgrims held thousands of lit candles, filling the square with a fiery lightbefore Pope Francis led them in praying the rosary. The pope already had visited the shrine earlier in theevening, arriving by helicopter from Monte Real air base. Excited crowds, wavingflags ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The state's top prosecutor on Friday charged a speeding Amtrak engineer with causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and other crimes in a 2015 derailment that came after he accelerated to 106 mph on a 50 mph curve....
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FATIMA, Portugal (AP) -- Pope Francis urged Catholics on Friday to "tear down all walls" and spread peace as he traveled to this Portuguese shrine town to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the most unique events of the 20th-century Catholic Church: the visions of the Virgin Mary reported by three illiterate shepherd children and the "secrets" she told them....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack Friday that locked up computers and held users' files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies....
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