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Update: World Youth Day offers glimpse of church’s diversity to Indiana pilgrims
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina Guidos By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) — Panama City has skyscrapers, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and a population of 880,000 within the city limits — more than 1.5 million in the metropolitan area. Yet a group of pilgrims from Indiana found warmth and the diversity of the Catholic …
Keep God’s love alive, pope tells young people at World Youth Day
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves PANAMA CITY (CNS) — Young men and women in the church can bring the joy of the Gospel to the world by showing that God’s love extends to all people and excludes no one, Pope Francis said. "By your actions and your …
Keep God’s love alive, pope tells young people at World Youth Day
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves PANAMA CITY (CNS) — Young men and women in the church can bring the joy of the Gospel to the world by showing that God’s love extends to all people and excludes no one, Pope Francis said. "By your actions and your …
World Youth Day offers glimpse of church’s diversity to Indiana pilgrims
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina Guidos By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) — Panama City has skyscrapers, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and a population of 880,000 within the city limits — more than 1.5 million in the metropolitan area. Yet a group of pilgrims from Indiana found warmth and the diversity of the Catholic …
Resource not risk: Pope reflects on using social media for good
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Social media are anti-social, anti-human and anti-Christian when they are used to increase differences, fuel suspicion, spread lies and vent prejudice, Pope Francis said in his message for World Communications Day. The Catholic Church and all people of goodwill …
Resource not risk: Pope reflects on using social media for good
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Social media are anti-social, anti-human and anti-Christian when they are used to increase differences, fuel suspicion, spread lies and vent prejudice, Pope Francis said in his message for World Communications Day. The Catholic Church and all people of goodwill …
Vatican summit to create task force to aid bishops in safeguarding
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Since the work of child protection must continue after the February meeting at the Vatican on safeguarding, one organizer said they plan on creating a "task force" with teams on every continent. The task force would be just one of …
Vatican summit to create task force to aid bishops in safeguarding
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Since the work of child protection must continue after the February meeting at the Vatican on safeguarding, one organizer said they plan on creating a "task force" with teams on every continent. The task force would be just one of …
Bishops address abuse scandal with U.S. pilgrims at World Youth Day
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) — As Pope Francis was arriving in Panama Jan. 23, bishops from the United States wasted no time addressing the sex abuse scandal back home during a popular event aimed at American and other English-speaking World Youth Day pilgrims. "It’s …
Marginalized take center stage at World Youth Day 2019
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) — One thing is clear about World Youth Day 2019: This one is not focused on convening great masses of people, or the most influential or the loudest. Instead of highlighting the problems faced by youth in the world’s richest …