Rome sabbatical course revised to allow more US priests

Vatican City, Oct 16, 2012 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Rome-based sabbatical program for priests from the U.S. is being overhauled to allow even more American clerics to take time out to pray, relax and study in the Eternal City.

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Mexican cardinal urges ill to offer suffering for country’s youth

Mexico City, Mexico, Oct 16, 2012 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, called on the sick to offer their sufferings so that the country's young people might open their hearts to the Gospel.

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Cardinal apologizes for video perceived as calling Christians to arms

Vatican City, Oct 16, 2012 / 02:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council on Peace and Justice, has apologized for rankling brother bishops with a video making alarmist predictions about the gro…