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WASHINGTON (AP) -- You can't really call them "yes men." Maybe we're meeting Donald Trump's "yes, but" men....
LONDON (AP) -- Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who has compiled an explosive dossier on President-elect Donald Trump, is a well-regarded operative who wouldn't make up stories to satisfy his clients, according to diplomatic and intelligence experts who know him....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress on Friday that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap President Barack Obama's health care overhaul....
Vatican Weekend for January 14th, 2017 features a report on the Pope’s General Audience on January 11th, a review of the Pope’s address to the Diplomatic Corps with two ambassadors sharing their impressions of his speech plus a look at how the centenary of the birth of Blessed Archbishop Oscar Romero is being marked in 2017.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges: 
Vatican Weekend for January 15th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:  
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis greeted the members of the General Inspectorate for Public Security at the Vatican of the Italian State Police (Polizia di Stato) in a traditional new year meeting on Friday. Although Vatican City State has its own police force – the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps –  this force cooperates closely with its Italian counterparts, and the Italian police help patrol St. Peter’s Square.In his address, Francis expressed his gratitude to all of them for their generous service, not without difficulties and risks. “I know that you run risks”, he said. “You are, in a certain sense, the ‘guardian angels’ of St. Peter’s Square. Indeed, every day you keep watch over this peculiar centre of Christianity, and other relevant areas of the Vatican, with great care, professionalism and a sense of duty. And especially in these recent times, you have shown competence and courage in facing the many challenges and various ...
(Vatican Radio)  Due to the extreme cold in Rome, the St. Egidio Community has kept the Church of St. Callixtus in Trastevere open since 7 Jan as a refuge from the cold for homeless people who have no other place to keep warm.A communique from the Office of the Papal Charities said the church will remain open as long as cold temperatures persist.There are around 30 people – Italians and foreigners – who sleep rough in the area and have been welcomed into St. Callixtus so they may stay the night out of the low temperatures.The communique said guests are offered dinner at St. Egidio’s nearby soup kitchen before being allowed into the church to sleep. Their needs are looked after by volunteers.St. Callixtus and its annexes are extraterritorial property of the Holy See. Though the current church building dates from the 17th century, it was built upon an ancient Roman church, built around the well in which Pope St. Callixtus I was martyred in 222.
Australia's poor treatment of refugees in offshore detention camps is "draconian" and is causing lasting damage to refugees and to Australia's reputation as a rights-respecting country, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.  Conditions in the camps are abusive and detainees "regularly endure violence, threats and harassment", Human Rights Watch said in the Australian chapter of its annual global report.  Under Australian rules, anyone intercepted while trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps in the Pacific Island nation of Nauru and at Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea (PNG). They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia.A spokeswoman for the Department of Immigration, asked about the report before its release, declined to comment but referred to earlier department assertions that conditions at the camps were adequate and were the responsibility of Nauru and PNG.  Those governments did not immediately respo...
(Vatican Radio) Ireland’s ambassador to the Holy See says Pope Francis’ speech to the diplomatic corps on Monday, serves as a reminder that we should always be thinking about peacebuilding.Ambassador Emma Madigan, who was giving her reaction to the Pope’s annual discourse also said that it offered a message of hope despite a year that saw conflicts and terror attacks around the world.Listen to Lydia O’Kane's interview with the Irish Ambassador to the Holy See, Emma Madigan Ambassador Madigan who has been Ireland’s representative to the Vatican, since September 2014 noted that, “it is perhaps an anxious time to be living in the world today and to have someone like the Pope, a moral authority, a moral leader being very visible on this and saying…we want peace and we want to continue to strive for peace; I think that was very important.”Hope in troubled timesSpeaking about the aspect of hope contained in the speech, the Ambassador ...
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican on Friday announced preparations for a Synod of Bishops on the theme of young people, as Pope Francis published a personal letter addressed to the youth of the world. In October 2018 bishops from across the globe will come to Rome for the 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, focused on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment”.In the Vatican press office, a young Cape Verdean man and a young Italian woman joined Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri and Bishop Fabio Fabene to present the Synod’s preparatory document and to discuss their hopes and expectations for the event.Philippa Hitchen reports.Listen:  24 year old Federica and 21 year old Elvis, both students at Rome’s Sapienza University, spoke clearly about their desire to be part of the process of building “a younger, fresher Church”. A Church which is less rigid, more welcoming, and open to discussions, debates and encounters. They wan...
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