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OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Crews working around the clock atop a crippled California dam reported progress Tuesday in repairing the damaged spillway and reducing the water level by at least 8 feet at the reservoir that has been central to this farming region for a half century....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former store clerk was convicted Tuesday of murder in one of the nation's most haunting missing-child cases, the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz on the way to the school bus stop 38 years ago....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn elicited a simple but persistent question Tuesday from congressional Democrats: What did President Donald Trump know and when did he know it?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was told in late January that his top national security aide had misled his vice president, three weeks before Trump ousted adviser Michael Flynn amid a swirling public controversy over Flynn's contacts with a Russian official, a White House spokesman said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pointed Tuesday to a solid U.S. job market and economy and said the Fed will likely resume raising interest rates in the next few months. But with uncertainties surrounding President Donald Trump's proposals, Yellen said the Fed still wants to keep assessing the economy....
(Vatican Radio) A newly published book dedicated to Chapter 8 of Pope Francis’s Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” was presented on Tuesday in the Vatican.Written by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, the 30-page booklet, is published by LEV, the Vatican publishing house.Presenting the book, Father Maurizio Gronchi, theologian, professor at Rome’s Pontifical Urbaniana University and consultant at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and veteran journalist Orazio La Rocca, expert in Vatican affairs.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: La Rocca explained the publication aims to provide clear and simple guidelines for all readers who are interested in better understanding the Apostolic Exhortation’s chapter dedicated to the Church’s ministry of those who find themselves living outside the traditional boundaries of marriage.“I had asked myself whether the ...
Caritas Manila has launched an appeal to help victims of the earthquake in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte and other areas in Mindanao.The social action arm of the Manila archdiocese said that more food aid and temporary shelter are needed for those left homeless.“Their most immediate needs include clean water, food, clothes and hygiene items,” according to Caritas Manila.“Caritas Manila once again appeal prayers and help we can offer to alleviate their sufferings through our donations in cash and in kind,” it said.The death toll from Surigao City’s devastating 6.7 magnitude earthquake last Friday has risen to eight and left more than two hundred injured. In Surigao City alone, more than 1,400 houses were reported damaged by the quake which also affected at least 11 towns. (CBCP)
Vatican City, Feb 14, 2017 / 02:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his preface for a book written by a survivor of clerical sex abuse, Pope Francis once again lamented the “monstrosity” of the act, calling the author, Daniel Pittet, courageous for his willingness to forgive his abuser and to share his story with the world.“For those who have been victims of a pedophile it is difficult to talk about what they have been through and describe the trauma that still persist after many years,” the Pope said in the preface, published earlier this month.Because of this, “Daniel Pittet’s testimony is necessary, treasured and courageous.”In his 240-page book, titled “I forgive you, father: surviving a broken childhood,” Pittet shares the story of his difficult childhood, during which he and his siblings were shuffled around different foster homes after their parents’ separation before eventually meeting the friar who would abuse him.At the ag...
Paris, France, Feb 14, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A complaint brought by a Catholic group against a dating site that promotes extramarital affairs was thrown out by a French court last week. The suit was dismissed after a Paris court determined that the National Confederation of Catholic Family Associations could not file the complaint, since infidelity complaints can only be filed within a private marital relationship, and because an affair does not always constitute a civil violation, according to reports from the AP. The website, Gleeden, advertises itself as “The first extramarital dating site made by women,” with a logo featuring a half-eaten apple referencing the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. Launched in 2009, the website claims to be a world leader in coordinating extramarital affairs, with a million users in France and 2.4 million throughout the world. Catholic Family Associations first filed a legal complaint against the...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Talk of President Donald Trump possibly signingan executive order on religious freedom -- which drew both criticism and praise --has been replaced with discussion about what happened to it and what a finalversion, if there is one, will look like.A draftversion of the executive order, called "Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative toRespect Religious Freedom," had been widely criticized in late January bythose who said it would legalize discrimination and was too far-reaching. It then failed to appear on thepresident's desk while rumors circulated that a scaled-back version mightappear eventually."We hopethat President Trump and his administration will take action soon, especiallyto provide relief from the onerous HHS mandate," said Baltimore Archbishop WilliamE. Lori, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty,referring to the mandate issued by the federal Department of Health and HumanServices requiring most relig...
