2013年11月12日星期二

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Man pleads guilty to shooting wife's dad at church

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:30 PM PST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of shooting his wife's father during a Roman Catholic Mass in Ogden has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges and claimed he was having a psychotic episode during the attack.

Catholic Bishops' Former 'Defense of Marriage' Chair Is Now Their President

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:17 PM PST

Catholic Bishops' Former 'Defense of Marriage' Chair Is Now Their PresidentLouisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz became the new president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuesday. While his election was no surprise — Kurtz became the organization's vice president in 2010 — it should clarify some confusion over the American Catholic Church's direction following Pope Francis's call to shift the church's emphasis towards social justice.

U.S. Catholic bishops' new leaders concerned with poor

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:31 PM PST

Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, smiles during a press conference at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The Sistine Chapel closed to visitors on Tuesday and construction work got under way to prepare it for the conclave, but five cardinals remained AWOL from the preparatory meetings to discuss who should run the Catholic Church following Benedict XVI's resignation.The Vatican insisted nothing was amiss and that the five cardinals would be arriving in the coming days. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)By Mary Wisniewski BALTIMORE (Reuters) - U.S. Catholic bishops elected two centrist conservatives as new leaders on Tuesday, an archbishop from Kentucky and a Texas cardinal, both of whom expressed "solidarity" with Pope Francis' strong emphasis on the poor. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, 67, of Louisville, Kentucky was elected to a three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, while Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, 64, of the Galveston-Houston diocese, was chosen as vice president. Their election comes as Catholic bishops worldwide are being given new direction by Pope Francis, who has emphasized greater humility and more concern for poverty. "I believe we are very much in solidarity with Pope Francis, and that is, his way of articulating clearly that we need not only to serve the voiceless and the vulnerable, but to be an advocate," Kurtz told reporters after his election.

Bishops elect Louisville archbishop new president

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 11:43 AM PST

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, right, of New York, outgoing president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, congratulates Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, after he was elected conference president during the group's annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Kurtz served the last three years as vice-president of the conference. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)BALTIMORE (AP) — The nation's Roman Catholic bishops on Tuesday elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Kentucky to be their new president as they grapple with changing priorities under Pope Francis.

Catholic bishops in US pick new leader

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:05 AM PST

Bishops wait to attend mass during a youth rally at the Verizon Center January 25, 2013 in WashingtonWashington (AFP) - The US Conference of Catholic Bishops elected the archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday as the new leader of the official organization of the Catholic hierarchy in America.

The 'Francis effect': 5 ways the pope is resuscitating the Catholic Church

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:07 AM PST

Leading — and growing — his flock.Pope Francis has won converts — at least metaphorically — around the globe. Not everyone is a fan of Francis, but the response has been largely, even enthusiastically, positive. With an organization as old and structurally conservative as the Catholic Church, it can be hard to measure concrete change. But Pope Francis is making such an impression that observers have come up with a name for the impact he's having on the church: The "Francis effect." Here are 5 ways the pope is shaking up the Catholic Church:

Biggest haul of looted church icons back in Cyprus

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:03 AM PST

Christian Orthodox priests look at returned looted icons at the Byzantine Museum in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The largest haul of looted church icons, frescoes and mosaics ever repatriated to Cyprus has been officially welcomed after a nearly four-decade journey. A ceremony marked the return of 173 items stolen from Orthodox and Maronite Christian churches in the Turkish Cypriot northern part Cyprus. The island was ethnically split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The largest haul of looted, centuries-old church icons, frescoes and mosaics ever repatriated to Cyprus were officially welcomed Tuesday after a nearly four-decade journey.

Pope-Russian Orthodox talks precede Putin visit

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 05:11 AM PST

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has met with the foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of a Nov. 25 visit to the Vatican by President Vladimir Putin.

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