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President Barack Obama's foreign policy doctrine has been rooted in the belief that while United States has the capability to take action around the world on its own, it rarely should....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carrie Fisher, a daughter of Hollywood royalty who gained pop-culture fame as Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" and turned her struggles with addiction and mental illness into wickedly funny books, a hit film and a one-woman stage show, died Tuesday after falling ill aboard a flight last week. She was 60....
(Vatican Radio) Russia's government has played down suggestions that a terror attack might have downed a Syria-bound Russian plane, killing all 92 people on board, amid concerns among experts that this possibility is being overlooked. The Kremlin made the comments after a day of mourning for the victims, including most members of Russia's world famous military choir.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: "Let us honour the memory of the victims with minute of silence," said Russian Prime Minister Dmitrii Medvedev as he opened a government session. Across the nation people mourned the people who died when the Tupolev-154 plane crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday. It happened just two minutes after taking off in good weather from the city of Sochi. The plane was carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, often referred to as the Red Army Choir, to a New Year's concert at a Russian military base in Syria. Others included journalists and a doctor who ...
(Vatican Radio) On Christmas Eve Pope Francis appointed Paul Desfarges, Archbishop of Algiers.The 72-year-old Jesuit French-Algerian was at the head of the Catholic Diocese of Constantine and Hippo in Algeria since 2009.Archbishop Desfarges spent nearly 30 years in Constantine, where he taught psychology at the University there. He was given Algerian nationality in 1982. He also acted as Jesuit Superior in Algiers until his nomination as Bishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.Speaking to Vatican Radio’s Sara Bakaloglou, Desfarges talks about the life of the Christian minority in the Muslim nation and about his joy for his new, important, nomination:“It is a challenge but at the same time a grace. In everyday life here in Algiers we enjoy a good [interreligious] relationship: a relationship of closeness, collaboration and even friendship” he says.Archbishop Desfarges says his community is a witness of good cohabitation, possibly because it unfolds day by day in big a...
IMAGE: CNS photo/ParamountBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a real-lifesituation akin to the "High School Musical" movie franchise, Russell Hornsbywas a jock who got the acting bug via the high school musical.Hornsby, a native of Oakland,California, was a sophomore at the all-boys St. Mary's College High School inBerkeley, where he played football. But teammates dared him to try out for theschool musical, "The Wiz.""And when it's a dare, you've got todo it," said Hornsby, who portrays Lyons in the new movie "Fences," which hitsmultiplexes nationwide on Christmas Day.So, for his audition, Hornsbyprepared Bert Lahr's soliloquy on courage as the Cowardly Lion from "The Wizardof Oz," the 1939 movie musical upon which "The Wiz" was based.And, to the delight of, and an ovationfrom, his fellow actors from "Fences," Hornsby -- who might have refined hisapproach in the ensuring years -- took it from the top, playing the part notonly of the Cowardly Lion but all his companions on the Ye...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Despite increased persecution andattacks against Christians, the faithful must strengthen their courage andjoyful desire to follow Christ no matter the cost, Pope Francis said.By choosing God's path of truth, "light andlife" over all else, Christians continue to give witness and persevere in"living according to the logic of the Gospel and refusing the logic of therulers of this world," he said at a noon blessing Dec. 26 at the Vaticanto those gathered in St. Peter's Square.The pope spoke on the feast of St. Stephen, the firstmartyr, saying that by choosing truth, St. Stephen also "became victim ofthe mystery of wickedness present in the world. But in Christ, Stephenwon."Jesus forewarned his disciples that they would be hatedand suffer in his name, the pope said, adding that such persecution continues today with so many men and women experiencing oppression,violence, hatred and even martyrdom because of their faith."Why does the world persecute Ch...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- A naval program that has become a target for critics is preparing to commission the USS Gabrielle Giffords, named for the U.S. politician who survived an assassination attempt in 2011....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Doubling down on its public break with the Obama administration, a furious Israeli government on Tuesday said it had received "ironclad" information from Arab sources that Washington actively helped craft last week's U.N. resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Donald Trump cannot move ahead with his plan to dismantle his charitable foundation because state prosecutors are probing whether the president-elect personally benefited from its spending, the New York attorney general's office said Tuesday....
