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Pope: Reverence for life, not profit, must determine use of nuclear power
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden TOKYO (CNS) — While not adopting the Japanese bishops’ opposition to nuclear power plants as his own, Pope Francis insisted the 2011 meltdown at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima raises serious questions. "It is important at times like this to pause …
A world without nuclear weapons is possible, pope says in Nagasaki
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden NAGASAKI, Japan (CNS) — Saying it is "perverse" to think the threat of nuclear weapons makes the world safer, Pope Francis urged a renewed commitment to disarmament and to the international treaties designed to limit or eliminate nuclear weapons. Pope Francis began his …
Pope arrives in Japan — decades later than he’d hoped
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden TOKYO (CNS) — Describing himself as a "missionary pilgrim," Pope Francis finally fulfilled a more than five-decade-old desire to share the Gospel in Japan. Arriving in Tokyo Nov. 23 after a five-hour flight from Bangkok, the pope met almost immediately with the bishops …
NCYC goes from rowdy to reverent for Blessed Sacrament, pope’s message
IMAGE: CNS screen grab/Vatican News By Natalie Hoefer INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Outside, a cold drizzle dampened Indianapolis Nov. 21. Inside the city’s convention center, however, it seemed as if the pure joy and enthusiasm of 20,000 people — mostly high school youths — would have held off the damp chill …
Government supporters besiege another Nicaraguan church
IMAGE: CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters By David Agren MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Pro-government mobs besieged another Nicaraguan parish, further inflaming tensions between the Catholic Church and President Daniel Ortega, whose Sandinista regime is targeting dissidents and attempting to stamp out dissent. On Nov. 21, Ortega supporters tried to enter St. …
Be brave enough to dialogue, pope tells Thai religious leaders
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) — Meeting Thai religious leaders and then celebrating Mass with Catholic young adults, Pope Francis encouraged them to strengthen a culture that treasures the past, holds fast to faith, is unafraid of differences and always seeks a way to promote dialogue …
Federal judge blocks scheduled executions of federal death-row inmates
IMAGE: CNS photo/Erin Scott, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — A federal judge Nov. 20 temporarily blocked the executions of four federal death-row inmates scheduled for December and January, saying the lethal injections they were to receive goes against the Federal Death Penalty Act. When U.S. Attorney General William …
Church becomes improvised morgue as Bolivian violence continues
IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcelo Perez del Carp By Manuel Rueda A church located on the outskirts of Bolivia’s capital city became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in the South American country. Father Gechi Revelin of St. Francis Parish in El Alto said protesters started to …
Mission is seeking family members you don’t know yet, pope tells Thais
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) — Missionaries are not mercenaries, but beggars who recognize that some brothers and sisters are missing from the community and long to hear the good news of salvation, Pope Francis told the Catholics of Thailand. Celebrating Mass Nov. 21, the feast …
Venerable Fulton Sheen to be beatified December 21
Peoria, Ill., Nov 18, 2019 / 02:42 pm (CNA).- The Diocese of Peoria announced Monday that Venerable Fulton Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21 at the city’s Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Sheen had been ordained a priest of the diocese in that cathedral Sept. 20, 1919. …
