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Tampa Bay, Fla., Jan 13, 2017 / 12:14 pm (National Catholic Register).- Matt and Kristin Loboda, from Tampa, Florida, and their four young children were visiting family in Phoenix, Arizona. On Dec. 29, 2016, Matt suddenly noticed that his 19-month-old daughter, Joy, was missing. She had been with them just before that. “In my heart, I knew something was terribly wrong. So, I ran down to the Koi pond on the property. I ran around it four times looking between the shadows and fish for Joy. Momentarily I was relieved. But, [then] I heard the Holy Spirit tell me to run to the pool,” writes Matt on his Facebook page.When Joy disappeared, Matt hadn’t considered the possibility that she was in the fence-encircled pool. He sprinted there, and the sight he saw was enough to make any parent’s blood run cold: there was Joy’s little, lifeless body floating on top of the water. Matt leaped over the five-foot fence and dove into the water, bringing Joy out of the poo...
Saltillo, Mexico, Jan 13, 2017 / 01:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The body of Father Joaquín Hernández Sifuentes, a priest in northern Mexico who had been missing since Jan. 3, was found on Thursday, his diocese announced.“We confirm with profound sadness that our brother Joaquín Hernández Sifuentes, a diocesan priest for whom we tirelessly searched, with the great hope of finding him alive, has gone on to the house of the eternal Father. This afternoon the authorities reported he was found dead,” read a Jan. 12 statement from the Diocese of Saltillo. Comunicado sobre el P. Joaquín Hernández Sifuentes (JHS004) jueves 12 de enero del 2017 https://t.co/LHinTQkIBk #Saltillo #México pic.twitter.com/kQaMjQae5X— Diócesis de Saltillo (@diocesisaltillo) January 12, 2017 The priest, who served at Sacred Heart parish in Saltillo's Aurora neighborhood, had not been seen since Jan. 3. The diocese reported his disa...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Under certain circumstances and afterlong prayer and a profound examination of conscience, some divorced and civillyremarried Catholics may return to the sacraments, said the bishops of Malta.With "an informed and enlightened conscience," aseparated or divorced person living in a new relationship who is able "toacknowledge and believe that he or she is at peace with God," the bishopssaid, "cannot be precluded from participating in the sacraments ofreconciliation and the Eucharist."The Maltese "Criteria for the Application of ChapterVIII of 'Amoris Laetitia,'" Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on thefamily, was published Jan. 13 after being sent to all of the country's priests byArchbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo.The bishops urged their priests to recognize how"couples and families who find themselves in complex situations,especially those involving separated or divorced persons who have en...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the great port-a-potty cover-up for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89....
PANAMA CITY (AP) -- It took three months for Gabriel Marin and his wife, Yansiel, to make it from their home in eastern Cuba to this migrant shelter in Panama's capital. The goal was the United States and now the door that spurred their odyssey has slammed shut....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's eight years of unsuccessful Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy will come to a crashing end this weekend, with chances for a Mideast peace deal at perhaps their lowest ebb in a generation. A Paris peace conference attended by Secretary of State John Kerry isn't expected to produce any tangible progress....
DETROIT (AP) -- Takata Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air bag inflators....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police have violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against blacks, using excessive force and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats, the Justice Department announced Friday after a yearlong investigation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- You can't really call them "yes men." Maybe we're meeting Donald Trump's "yes, but" men....
