Cardinal Edmund Szoka dies at 86

Detroit, Mich., Aug 22, 2014 / 12:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka, who had served as Archbishop of Detroit and president of the Vatican City State, died of natural causes at the age of 86 at the local Providence Park Hospital.“We mourn the loss of a dedicated shepherd. For sixty years, Cardinal Szoka gave himself totally to...

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Prayers urged as black mass organizer claims consecrated Host

The purported use of a consecrated Host at a planned satanic black mass at an Oklahoma City civic center would be a “terrible sacrilege” that requires a prayerful response, the local archbishop emphasized.Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City in an Aug. 4 message lamented that the city-run Civic Center Music Hall was selling tickets for the event...

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In Korea, Pope Francis to visit cemetery for aborted babies

Cemetery in Kkottongnae, South Korea. Credit: Andy Prima Kencana/www.andyprima.com. During his upcoming trip to South Korea, Pope Francis will pray for the unborn at the “Cemetery for Aborted Children” as part of his visit to the Kkottoghnae Home for the sick.Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi also noted in an Aug. 8 press conference that...

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