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(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, celebrated Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica for the 50th anniversary of the encyclical ‘Populorum Progressio’.During his homily for the Mass on Monday, Cardinal Parolin thanked the members and consultors of the Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace, for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, for Health Pastoral Care, and Cor Unum for their collaboration and service as the Councils were merged into the new Dicastery for Integral Human Development.“The celebration of this Eucharist, with you and for you, is a fitting occasion to give thanks to the Lord for the establishment of this Office that serves the Holy Father in the exercise of his Petrine ministry. The particular characteristic of this service is a commitment to the integral development of every person.”Cardinal Parolin said the new Dicastery “will carry out its mandate only to...
Vatican City, Apr 4, 2017 / 05:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis approved a way for priests of the Society of St. Pius X to witness marriages validly, which had not been the case previously because they lacked the faculties to do so.Through a letter dated March 27 and published April 4, the Pope has given diocesan bishops or other local ordinaries the authorization to grant priests of the SSPX the ability to celebrate licitly and validly the marriages of the faithful who follow the Society's pastoral activity.The letter, signed by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, indicates that "insofar as possible" a diocesan or other fully regular priest is to "receive the consent of the parties during the marriage rite, followed, in keeping with the liturgy of the Vetus ordo, by the celebration of Mass, which may be celebrated by a priest of the So...
Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Jaime Maldonado-Aviles thought that he would be spending his life behind microscopes at Yale as a neuroscientist. But his life has taken a dramatic turn, and he is now discerning the priesthood at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.“I have to seriously explore these questions,” Maldonado-Aviles said of a constant nagging he felt towards the priesthood.“At different times, the question would come back: If I see myself at 90 years old, close to death, would I say to myself, ‘I should have entered seminary?’” he told the Washington Post.Maldonado-Aviles was 34 and working at Yale as a neuroscientist in a post-doctoral position when he seriously began to explore the pull towards priesthood that he had felt his whole life.He grew up in Puerto Rico and attended the National Institutes of Health, earning his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh. He has studied everything fr...
Sacramento, Calif., Apr 4, 2017 / 09:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A proposed California law has targeted faith-based employers’ codes of conduct in the name of reproductive health, the California Catholic Conference has said.“The bill impacts all employers, but seems to attack and diminish the conscience and religious liberty rights of faith-based organizations,” Sandra Palacios, associate director for governmental relations at the California Catholic Conference, told CNA April 3.“The bill targets and seeks to eliminate the ability of religious employers to enforce faith-based code of conduct standards,” she said. “As one of the most family-friendly religious employers in our state and across the nation, we welcome an opportunity for further dialogue on the bill with the author and her staff.”Assembly Bill 569 would bar requiring an employee to sign a waiver or other document that “purports to deny any employee the right to make his or her ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Continuing initiatives aimed at a reconciliationwith the Priestly Societyof St. Pius X, Pope Francis hasmade it possible for bishops to ensure the validity of marriages celebrated inthe traditionalist communities.A letterpublished by the Vatican April 4 said the pope will allow Catholic bishops toappoint priests to assist at SSPX marriages and formally receive the consent ofthe couples. The nuptial Mass then would be celebrated by the SSPX priest.Inaddition, Pope Francis gave bishops the option of granting an SSPX priest thenecessary faculties to officiate validly over the marriage rite "if thereare no priests in the diocese" available to do so. Theprovisions are meant to ensure the validity of the sacrament and "allayany concerns on the part of the faithful," said the letterpublished by the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," which is responsible forthe Vatican's ongoing talks with the Society of St. Pius X.The c...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Catholic approach to developmentaims at helping people achieve both physical and spiritual well-being andpromotes both individual responsibility and community ties, Pope Francis said.A development that is "fully human" recognizesthat being a person means being in relationship; it affirms "inclusion andnot exclusion," upholds the dignity of the person against any form ofexploitation, and struggles for freedom, the pope said April 4 at a Vaticanconference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI's encyclical onintegral human development, "Populorum Progressio."Holistic or integral development, Pope Francis said,involves "integrating" all people into one human family, integratingindividuals into communities, integrating the individual and communaldimensions of life and integrating body and soul."The duty of solidarity obliges us to seek proper waysof sharing so that there is no longer that dram...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press named its head of U.S. news to the new position of managing editor on Tuesday, appointing Brian Carovillano to take the No. 2 position in the newsroom of the global news cooperative....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force....
DALLAS (AP) -- Tony Romo is retiring rather than trying to chase a Super Bowl with another team after losing his starting job with the Dallas Cowboys, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday....
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- The NCAA will consider North Carolina as a host for championship events again after the state rolled back a law that limited protections for LGBT people....