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By Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley Scott Hahn is the author or editor of over forty popular and academic books. His works include best-selling titles Rome Sweet Home, The Lamb’s Supper, and The First Society. His most recent book is It Is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion. Brandon McGinley is
Read MoreCNA Staff, Nov 3, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has encouraged bishops in Europe to evaluate legislative proposals in light of the transcendent dignity of every human person.
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Read MoreThe President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference has been admitted to intensive care with coronavirus. Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve, was transferred …
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Expresses Closeness to Those Who Lost Loved Ones Following Attacks Killing Three & Leaving Another 15 Wounded in City Center
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The British government’s announcement of plans for a second prolonged round of restrictions on commerce and social activity did not sit well with senior clergy …
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CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- Austria’s Catholic bishops have appealed for prayers for the victims of Monday night’s terror attack in Vienna.
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said Nov. 2 that he was “deeply saddened” after gunmen opened fire at six different locations in the Austrian capital, killing at least four people and injuring 17 others.
“Whatever the background to the attack today, it must be clear that nothing can justify blind violence,” the archbishop of Vienna told the Austrian Catholic news agency Kathpress.
Schönborn said that the attack, which began outside Vienna’s Stadttempel, reminded him of a 1981 attack on the synagogue which killed two people and wounded 30 others.
In a Nov. 3 interview with the national public service broadcaster ORF, the cardinal urged Austrians not to respond to the killings with hatred.
“To this blind hatred, hatred can be no answer,” he said. “Hatred only fuels new hatred.”
Schönborn noted that he had spent the night in his chapel in the Episcopal Palace, next to Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral, thinking of the victims, police, and security forces. He expressed gratitude for messages from people all over the world saying that they were praying for Austria.
“This solidarity of good, of togetherness — we need that now,” he said.
Archbishop Franz Lackner, president of the Austrian bishops’ conference, said that the attack was the result of a “misguided, inhuman ideology.”
“Believers must condemn this act in the name of God, and inwardly resist it with all their strength of spirit and faith,” the archbishop of Salzburg told Kathpress.
Other Austrian bishops called for prayers on social media.
Bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl of Graz thanked the emergency services on Twitter.
“My prayers go out to the victims, the relatives, and all those affected,” he wrote.
In neighboring Germany, Bishop Georg Bätzing said that recent terrorist attacks in Europe had left him shaken.
“I am stunned by the bloody deed last night in Vienna. My first thoughts and prayers are for the victims, the many injured, and the relatives,” the president of the German bishops’ conference said.
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New Haven, Conn., Nov 3, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- The beatification of Blessed Michael McGivney was a much smaller affair than many had hoped. But despite the pandemic, people still came from across the country and across the world to honor the founder of the Knights of Columbus.
The beatification of McGivney on Saturday was celebrated with a weekend of events. In addition to the Mass of beatification at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut, on Oct. 31, there was a “McGivney Festival” at the priest’s former parish in New Haven on Friday, featuring Mass, adoration, a panel discussion, a Eucharistic procession around Yale University’s campus, and testimony about McGivney’s life.
Emily Lomnitzer attended the McGivney Festival. She told CNA that while a student at the Catholic University of America, she learned about McGivney, and that the event was a big moment for her and her friends, telling CNA they were “really into venerable, now-Blessed McGivney.”
“I’ve known about him for a long time. We never thought he would get beatified, so this is a really big deal,” she said. “I didn’t know about him growing up, I learned about him at [The Catholic University of America], and it’s really nice to see that he’s being recognized.”
She said that she thinks McGivney will serve as a great inspiration to young priests and seminarians, as he was “an example of someone who did a lot of great work at the beginning of their ministry.”
“Even not living a terribly long life, he was able to do such good things, even from a very young age,” she said.
McGivney, a Connecticut native, spent his entire priestly ministry in what is now the Archdiocese of Hartford. Future priests of the archdiocese played an important role in the weekend, including Colin Lane, a seminarian in first theology year, who was one of the altar servers at the beatification Mass.
Lane told CNA that knowing his archdiocese produced a blessed was an “incredible joy,” and that while in high school, he had attended St. Mary’s–McGivney’s former parish.
“Being around Fr. McGivney, being around his tomb–to be there last night at the vespers, and to be here [at the beatification Mass], it’s really quite surreal,” he said.
“Somebody who ministered in our parishes, in New Haven and in Thomaston, who walked many of the same paths that our priests do today, is being raised to the altar of ‘blessed,’ it really is a great inspiration and a great encouragement,” said Lane.
He added that McGivney’s beatification was a reminder to him and the other seminarians that “holiness is possible, even amongst priests of the archdiocese, even in the state of Connecticut, there’s someone who lived a holy life.”
McGivney’s beatification shows that “The little, daily acts of a parish priest can lead one down the path to sanctity,” Lane said.
Julie Buonasera, a member of Frassati New Haven, a young adult group at St. Mary’s Church, was a volunteer at the McGivney Festival. She said that she did not know much about McGivney before his beatification, although her grandfather was a fourth-degree Knight.
She said the day was “beautiful,” and that she “felt a lot of grace.”
“Just the beauty of being here together with peers and young adults from around the state and beyond is awesome,” she said.
Unlike other pilgrims, Nathan Schaechle, 20, did not have too much of a choice in attending the beatification. His brother, Mikey, 5, was the reason why the beatification was happening in the first place – being the recipient of a miracle attributed to McGivney’s intercession.
Schachle told CNA that when his mother was told her pregnancy with his brother Mikey had “no hope” he had “kind of just resigned [himself] to what felt like the inevitable.”
“It was like, ‘hey, he’s gonna die,’ and then all of a sudden he’s ready to be born,” said Schacle. His brother Mikey was delivered prematurely via emergency c-section after doctors realized that there was an issue with the placenta.
The gravity of the situation was not apparent to the then-teenage Nathan.
Nathan told CNA that at the time his brother was born, he was mostly upset that his mother’s emergency delivery meant that he was unable to attend the Diocese of Nashville’s diaconate ordination Mass like he had planned.
“I really didn’t realize the magnitude of what had happened until it was approved [by the Vatican],” he said.
He was aware that the Vatican was investigating the circumstances leading up to his brother’s birth, and that his parents had been involved in a diocesan tribunal that had progressed to the promoter of McGiney’s cause in New Haven. But he did not know that his brother’s recovery had been a confirmed miracle until it was announced by Pope Francis.
“We found out with the rest of the world that [the miracle] had been approved,” he said. Nathan told CNA that he woke up early the morning the pope approved the miracle to “probably about 20 texts” on his phone.
“The human moment for me was that, ‘wow, our name’s been on the pope’s desk,’” he said. “And really, I don’t think it’s completely sunk in yet, even now. It’s just kind of been a blur since then.”
The Tennessee resident described the experience in New Haven as “very cold” (temperatures for the weekend hovered in the mid-40s), “very surreal,” and “a little bit frightening.”
Nathan said his family is “not really attention-seeking people, but this is what God wants for us.”
“He wants to glorify Himself in the world through it, and He wants others to come to Him through us,” he said. “So we’re doing the best we can in that respect.”
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Read More“The stones cannot cry out their horror,” said Bishop André Marceau of Nice. “Three lives were stolen in the name of a false god.”
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“Enemy-occupied territory: that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.” — C. S. Lewis “A Christian has only to be in order to change the world, for […]
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The name Asia Bibi became internationally synonymous with religious minorities unfairly persecuted
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