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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of Hungarian Father Péter Oros, who was killed at the height of the Cold War by Soviets in Ukraine.
During a meeting Aug. 5 with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the pope also signed decrees advancing the sainthood causes of four other men and one woman.
According to the dicastery s website, Father Oros was born in Biri, present-day Hungary, in 1917 and was ordained a priest for the Ruthe ....
3 slides Credit: Courtesy of Vanessa Delgado It s Complicated: why some Northwest Latinx residents and farmworkers hesitate on Covid Vaccine By Vanessa Delgadoâs dad didnât want to take a whole unpaid day off of work to get a vaccine appointment. Sheâs working on her doctorate in Irvine, Calif., but helped her father, Victor Delgado, get a vaccine close to his home in Benton County, Wash. âIn my own personal experience, itâs been very complicated,â she says. âWorking around schedules of essential workers but then also making sure that, OK, he canât travel too far, he canât go all the way to Yakima on a work day, that would be just too far.â ....
Margaret Karram, 58, becomes the new President of the Focolare Movement. (Photo:FOCOLARE) The Focolare Movement has elected Margaret Karram, an Arab Catholic who was born in Israel, to a six-year term as its new president. The election of the 58-year-old consecrated lay woman was announced on February 1 during an online general assembly spanning from January 24 to February 7. Some 359 representatives cast their ballots on January 31 and, in accordance with Focolare s statutes, sent the name of the new president to the Vatican s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life for its ratification. Karram is the third consecutive woman to lead the worldwide new ecclesial movement, which was founded in the 1940s by Chiara Lubich, an Italian laywoman who served as Focolare s first president until her death in 2008. ....