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NEW YORK (AP) -- Mobile video is changing the way we witness crime, from live footage of a mentally disabled man tortured by four assailants , to a recording that led to the manslaughter conviction of an Israeli soldier , to the body cameras designed to keep police accountable....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brushing aside Donald Trump's dismissiveness, the nation's intelligence chief insisted Thursday that U.S. agencies are more confident than ever that Russia interfered in America's recent presidential election. And he called the former Cold War foe an "existential threat" to the nation....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Thursday with participants in a Conference organized by the national Office for Pastoral Care for Vocations of the Italian Episcopal Conference.The theme of the conference is “Arise, go forth, and fear not. Vocations and sanctity: I am on a mission.”Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: During the encounter, Pope Francis set aside his prepared remarks and spoke off-the-cuff to the 800 seminarians and religious men and women present.Recalling the conference’s theme, the Holy Father asked himself aloud, “How many young people, boys and girls, today hear in their heart that ‘Arise’, and how many – priests, consecrated men and women – close the door? And they wind up frustrated.”To remedy this situation, the Pope offered several thoughts on ways to increase vocations to religious life and the priesthood.“The doors are opened through prayer, though good will, through risk,” he said. &...
Vatican City, Jan 5, 2017 / 11:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During an audience with people from the areas devastated by earthquakes in Central Italy, Pope Francis emphasized the need to move forward with hope, closeness and solidarity, rather than a false sense of optimism.“The pain is great...the wounds of the heart are there,” the Pope told thousands of people gathered in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall for the Jan. 5 audience.He recalled how when visiting the earthquake zones in October he met the sister and parents of a little boy who was crushed under the rubble, as well as a couple who had lost their small twins.“Now I meet you who have lost the center of your families,” he said, explaining that while the process of rebuilding is important, it's not something superficial.Rebuilding the heart, above all, is not the rosy idea that “tomorrow will be better, it isn't optimism,” he said, adding that “there’s no room for optimism her...
Washington D.C., Jan 5, 2017 / 01:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic Church can be a force for healing race relations, said the U.S. bishops’ task force on racism and peace in a newly released report.“We find ourselves at a critically important moment for our individual communities and our nation as a whole,” Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta said in the report’s introduction. “The Church has a tremendous opportunity and, we believe, an equally tremendous responsibility to bring people together in prayer and dialogue, to begin anew the vital work of fostering healing and lasting peace.”Efforts to “root out racism” and “create healthy dynamics in our neighborhoods” are long-term projects, said the archbishop, who had served as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2001 to 2004.He wrote the introduction to the report of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Special Task Force to Promote Peace...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New WorldBy Michelle MartinCHICAGO (CNS) -- Shara Funches' eyes scanned the rows of crossesset up on the sidewalk just north of the Chicago River on Michigan Avenue, amain thoroughfare through downtown.Funches waslooking for the cross bearing the name of her godson, Devon Almon, 23, who wasgunned down on the Eisenhower Expressway Sept. 29."I had tobe here for him. But also for all the kids who died. It just has to stop. It'sjust sad. All the mothers, all the fathers, robbed," Funches said.She was oneof hundreds of people who joined a Dec. 31 march on Michigan Avenue organizedby Father Michael Pfleger,pastor of St. Sabina Parish on the city's South Side, to remember thosewho died by gun violence in 2016.The ChicagoPolice Department recorded 762 murders in 2016. Father Pfleger told the marchers there werenearly 800 crosses for them to carry.The name ofa victim, along with their age and date of death, was written on each 24-inch woodencross bui...
By Jonathan LuxmooreOXFORD, England (CNS) -- Achurch leader in Turkey said Catholics are fearful about attending church afterrecent terrorist attacks, but insisted local Christians can count on governmentprotection."Although we can movearound freely, people are understandably afraid of coming to Mass and there'sbeen a drop in participation," said Bishop Ruben Tierrablanca Gonzalez,apostolic vicar of Istanbul."But all churches have beengiven police guards since a coup was attempted last July, and securityofficials have shown great kindness to us. Christians, Muslims and Jews aretalking together and sharing the same anxieties, although the future doesn'tdepend on us."The Mexican-born bishop spoke asa car bomb killed four and wounded 11 outside a courthouse in Izmir, while apolice hunt continued for the perpetrator of a Jan. 1 attack on Istanbul'sReina nightclub, which left 39 dead and at least 70 injured.In a Jan. 5 interview withCatholic News Service, Bishop Tierrablanca said Turkey...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New parents, get ready to feed your babies peanut-containing foods - starting young lowers their chances of becoming allergic....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A fired Kentucky high school principal has admitted to seizing students' phones so that he could steal pornographic images and trade them online, investigators said....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A large explosion rocked a Syrian government-held coastal town on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens - an attack that was a stark remainder of the prevailing insecurity in the war-torn country despite a nearly week-old cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey....
