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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump turned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during the election. Obama's intelligence chief said no such action was ever carried out....
(Vatican Radio) Turkish leaders have condemned Germany for cancelling political rallies of Turkish residents due to be addressed by Ankara's ministers and said Berlin gave "shelter" to people committing crimes against Turkey. The German government has denied it was involved in cancelling the rallies, while Germany's president has urged municipalities not to cancel other political rallies. While they are still allies in the NATO military alliance, Turkey and Germany are now facing their worst tensions in years. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag, who had been scheduled to address a meeting in the southwestern town of Gaggenau until it was called off on Thursday, is among ministers condemning Berlin after several political rallies were cancelled in German municipalities. "The right of expression and meeting is guaranteed in all democracies by government bodies," he said. "Here [in Germany] th...
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam in Ireland has spoken of his shock to learn of the extent of the numbers of children buried in the graveyard at the former Catholic orphanage "Mother and Baby Home" in Tuam.Archbishop Neary chose to speak of his horror at the recent findings of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation that was established following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies in Tuam and the manner in which they were buried during his homily for the First Sunday of Lent.Please find below the full text of Archbishop Neary's homily: Each year, on the First Sunday of Lent, the Church puts before us, in the Gospel passages She has chosen for us, the accounts of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. We are invited to enter into these scriptural texts and to acknowledge how they mirror what is going on in our own lives, and to avail of the opportunity to be changed for the better and transformed by them durin...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Visitors arriving at the Philadelphia Flower Show this year will feel as if they're stepping into the endless flower fields of Holland....
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Faced with the threat that Asian carp could enter the Great Lakes, Michigan is turning to the public for new ideas and plans to offer a prize to whoever comes up with a way to stop the voracious fish....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Deadly encounters between police officers and motorists have lawmakers across the country thinking driver's education should require students to be taught what to do in a traffic stop....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Dr. Thomas Starzl, the pioneer of liver transplantation and the driving force behind the world's first baboon-to-human liver transplants and research on anti-rejection drugs, has died. He was 90....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Add one more to the list of things dividing left and right in this country: We can't even agree what it means to be an American....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The White House on Sunday demanded that Congress, which is already investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, also examine whether former President Barack Obama abused his executive powers in connection with that campaign....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday called on Christians to consult the Bible with the same frequency as they might consult their cellphones for messages. Speaking to the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square following his weekly Angelus blessing, the Pope urged those present to give the Bible the same place in daily life as cellphones and asked: “What would happen if we turned back when we forget it, if we opened it more times a day, if we read the message of God contained in the Bible the way we read messages on our cellphones?”The Bible, he explained, contains the Word of God, the most effective tool in fighting evil and keeping us close to God. Clearly, Francis said, the comparison between the Bible and the cellphone is paradoxical, but it induces us to reflect.“If we always carried God’s Word in our hearts, no temptation would distance us from the Father, and no obstacle would take us off the path towards good” he said.He pointed...
