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Fr. Reggie Malicdem, Rector of the Manila Cathedral, encouraged the faithful not to be afraid or embarrassed to go to confession and be more open to its “healing power”.Catholics he said, should not let fear keep them from receiving the peace the sacrament provides. He said that being ashamed or scared are common feelings and reasonable for people to feel that way because it’s somehow part of the process of asking for an apology. “That’s humility but let us not allow them to keep us from experiencing this unique gift the church provides for the faithful,” Fr. Malicdem said.“Don’t be scared or ashamed so that you will see and receive the benefit from the Sacrament of Confession because we know that God’s mercy is infinite,” he said. He  added that a common question asked regarding the sacrament is why Catholics should confess to a priest when they can pray directly to God. He said God could have easily communicated to...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has invited Christians to contemplate the Cross and to celebrate the holy days leading to Easter.Continuing his catechesis on Christian hope, the Pope was addressing the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for the weekly Wednesday General Audience.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni:  Unlike worldly hopes, which fail to bring lasting satisfaction Pope Francis told the faithful that “our Christian hope is grounded in God’s eternal love”.Reflecting on the Gospel of John, the Pope recalled Jesus’ words as he entered Jerusalem: “unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit”.These words, he said, can help us understand the mystery of God’s promise – think of a tiny seed that falls to the ground; if it remains closed unto itself nothing happens, if it breaks open it gives life to an ear of wheat, and then to a plant t...
Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed a new bishop to the Diocese of Manado, in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia.   The new bishop is Provincial of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (M.S.C.) in Indonesia, Father Benedictus Estephanus Rolly Untu.   ‎The Pope appointed the 60-year old priest after Bishop Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, M.S.C., stepped down two days after reaching the age of 77.  According to the Church’s Canon Law, the normal retirement age of a bishop is 75, but if needs be, the Pope could ask him to continue.Bishop-designate Fr. Untu was born on 4 January, 1957 in ‎Lembean, in Manado Diocese. After attending St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary of Kakaskasen, he completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary of Pineleng.  After his perpetual vows as a Missionary of the Sacred Heart on 15 January, 1983, Fr. Untu was ordained a priest on 29 June, the same year.Manado Diocese, a suffr...
Manchester, N.H., Apr 12, 2017 / 04:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has dismissed a New Hampshire priest from the clerical state, after the priest was convicted of stealing some $300,000 from the local diocese, a hospital and a deceased priest's estate.“On February 28, 2017, Pope Francis decreed Edward J. Arsenault dismissed from the clerical state, and dispensed him from all obligations subsequent to sacred ordination, including that of celibacy,” the Diocese of Manchester said in a statement last week.“By virtue of this decree, Edward J. Arsenault has no faculties to act, function, or present himself as a priest.”In 2014, Arsenault was sentenced to four years in prison. He was ordered to repay $300,000 in restitution, according to local media reports.Arsenault was convicted of writing checks from the dead priest’s estate to himself and of billing a hospital for consulting work he never did, according to the Associated Press.He admitted to spe...
Vatican City, Apr 12, 2017 / 04:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced that EWTN’s Chairman of the Board Michael Warsaw has been named by Pope Francis a consultor of the Vatican Secretariat for Communications.The announcement of Warsaw’s appointment was made in an April 12 communique from the Vatican, along with the names of 13 other new consultors.Warsaw was promoted to Chairman of the Board for EWTN in 2013. He has worked for EWTN since 1991, and had been named president in 2000, and CEO in 2009. He also serves as publisher of the National Catholic Register since the paper's acquisition by EWTN in 2011.He has worked for more than 35 years in media, and has overseen EWTN's television, radio, and internet programming and production, as well as hosting the program “Bookmark.” He had been appointed COO in 2009.EWTN was founded in 1981 by Mother Angelica, of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. The network today transmits programmi...
LONDON (AP) -- U.S. first lady Melania Trump has accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper for reporting rumors about her time as a model, the two parties in the lawsuit said Wednesday....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday stunned the country by unexpectedly filing to run in the May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the supreme leader to stay out of the race....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jetsetters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the U.N. peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump's campaign chairman....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top diplomat accused the United States on Wednesday of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson....
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