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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof threw away one last chance to plead for his life in front of the jurors who convicted him of killing nine black churchgoers, telling them Tuesday: "I still feel like I had to do it."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a businessman, Donald Trump has kept the courts busy. That's hardly likely to change when he enters the Oval Office, creating an unusual and potentially serious problem for a sitting president....
Under the U.S. Constitution, the Senate has sole authority to confirm a president's nominee to serve in the Cabinet. And while President-elect Donald Trump can't officially nominate anyone until he becomes president on Jan. 20, the Senate is getting an early start this week on his choices for several top jobs in his administration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump pushed Congress Tuesday to act swiftly to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, and follow up quickly with a replacement. House Speaker Paul Ryan, after talking with Trump, announced that the House would aim to take both steps "concurrently."...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has named an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles - Oscar Azarcon Solis – as the tenth Bishop of Salt Lake City, United States.Bishop Solis will be the first Filipino-American Bishop to lead a Diocese in the United States.He said: “It’s a beautiful thing to receive the appointment. It’s a recognition of the diversity of the Church in America and the universality of the Church. It is a tremendous blessing and a responsibility and a privilege to be of service to the local Church in the United States of America, coming from the Philippines.”Bishop Solis was born October 13, 1953 in San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.He attended the Christ the King Seminary of the Society of the Divine Word, Tagaytag City, to study philosophy and the Pontifical Royal Seminary at the University of Saint Thomas in Manila for his theological studies.Bishop Solis was ordained a priest on 28 April 1979 for the Diocese of Cabanatuan and served as ch...
(Vatican Radio) “2016 drew to a terrible close in Venezuela, amid much desperation. With negative results from all points of view”. This is according to the President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Diego Padron Sanchez, who was addressing the Plenary Assembly of Venezuelan Bishops in Caracas at the beginning of the year.Linda Bordoni reports: A long list of the evils that lambasted the crisis-riddled nation of Venezuela in 2016 topped Archbishop Padron Sanchez’ discourse to his brother bishops, as he thanked the Church for never having given up reaching out to the poor in a desperately difficult situation and for never having stopped offering the world a realistic view of the dire reality.“Almost 29,000 violent deaths; hunger and malnutrition; lack of medicine and the resurgence of epidemics; over 120 political prisoners unjustly and illegally detained; rampant corruption; the systematic attack against private businesses and the ind...
Vatican City, Jan 10, 2017 / 08:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday the Vatican announced the appointment of Filipino-born Bishop Oscar A. Solis, currently an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, as the new head of the Diocese of Salt Lake City.Bishop Solis, 63, will fill a more than 20-month vacancy in Salt Lake City, after the previous bishop, John Charles Wester, was tapped to lead the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M. in April 2015.In an interview with L.A. diocesan newspaper Angelus News, Solis called his new role as the 10th bishop of Salt Lake City “a recognition of the diversity of the Church in America and the universality of the Church.”“I know what it means to be a pastor, a shepherd of a particular diocese,” he said. “It is a tremendous blessing and a responsibility and a privilege to be of service to the local Church in the United States of America, coming from the Philippines.” In 2003, Bishop Solis became the ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Woltering family via ReutersBy ATLANTA (CNS) -- Olga Woltering, a bedrockmember of her parish and the Atlanta Cursillo movement and beloved to herfamily and many friends, was among five people killed in the Jan. 6 shooting ata Florida airport.Woltering, 84, was leavingfor a cruise with her husband, Ralph, to celebrate his birthday and were flyingthrough Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when a gunman startedshooting people in a baggage claim area. Ralph Woltering was not injured.Esteban Santiago, a 26-year-oldArmy veteran, is charged in connection with the incident. In addition to thefive people who were killed, six were injured.The Wolterings, who are great-grandparents,have been active members of Transfiguration Church in suburban Marietta for nearly40 years, according to the parish. Her funeral Mass will be celebrated at theparish Jan. 12."Olga was one ofthe most joyful, loving, caring and committed people I have ever met," Father FernandoMolina-Res...
IMAGE: CNS photo/J.D. Long-Garcia, The TidingsBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Francis has named Auxiliary BishopOscar A. Solis of Los Angeles as bishop of Salt Lake City.Bishop Solis, 63, a native of San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines,has been auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles since 2004. Previously he served theArchdiocese of Manila and the Diocese of Cabanatuan, both in the Philippinesbefore coming to the United States in 1984.The appointment was announced Jan.10 in Washington by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio tothe United States.Bishop Solis served as associate pastorof St. Rocco Church in Union City, New Jersey, from 1984 to 1988 and wasincardinated in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, in 1988 andserved as a parish priest for 15 years prior to his appointment to Los Angeles.In the archdiocese, he was the vicarfor ethnic ministry and was the auxiliary bishop of the San Pedro PastoralRegion, covering southern Los Angeles County.MORE TO COME- - -Copyright © ...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesus astonished people with theway he taught and interacted with others because he wasn't aloof, domineeringor hypocritical, Pope Francis said in a homily."Jesus wasn't allergic to people. Touching lepers,the sick did not disgust him,"whereas the Pharisees -- who strolled around in fine clothes -- looked down onthe people and considered them ignorant, he said at the Mass Jan. 10 in thechapel of his residence."They were removed from the people, they weren'tclose," the pope saidof the Pharisees. "Jesus was very close to the people and this gavehim authority."The pope's homily centered on the day's Gospel reading (Mk1:21-28) in which people gathered at the synagogue in Capernaum "wereastonished" at Jesus' teaching because he displayed an authority that differedso greatly from that of the scribes.The people would listen to and be respectful toward the doctorsof the law and the scribes, but the people didn't take what they said "toheart," he said.The...
