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CHICAGO (AP) -- The two 18-year-olds had been schoolmates, police say. After meeting at McDonald's, they spent two days together, driving around visiting friends. Then a pretend fight between them escalated into a brutal beating of a mentally disabled teenager that has stirred racial tensions and outrage after being broadcast on Facebook Live....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A few years ago President Barack Obama came under conservative fire for choosing, at times, to read his daily intelligence briefings, rather than receive them in-person. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was among those piling on....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top intelligence officials are making their most detailed and persuasive case yet to President-elect Donald Trump that Russia interfered in this year's U.S. political process....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Tortorella broke from his usual routine after the Columbus Blue Jackets' streak-breaking clunker on Thursday night....
Friends and family members gathered at the next-door homes of Debbie Reynolds and daughter Carrie Fisher on a gloomy Thursday in the Hollywood Hills for an intimate memorial to mourn the late actresses....
DENVER (AP) -- As the Southeast prepared for treacherous winter weather, skiers in the West flocked to resorts Thursday to take advantage of deep, fresh snow....
We can sometimes be faithless zombies...
Manila, Philippines, Jan 5, 2017 / 04:27 pm (CNA).- For over four centuries, a historical and iconic miraculous statue of Jesus Christ carrying his Cross has become an emblem of passion, struggle and faith for Filipino Catholics.The life-size statue of Jesus is enshrined in the famous minor basilica popularly known as the Quiapo Church, located in the Archdiocese of Manila. The statue has survived the blazing fires that destroyed the church twice, two earthquakes, the floods of numerous typhoons and bombings during World War II.The church which hosts the statue never sleeps. It welcomes devotees early in the morning till late evening. During the day, it holds continuous Masses and healing services. During the night, the church shelters poor homeless people. In the early morning, the church is cleaned and again reaches out to the pilgrims and devotees.Every year on Jan. 9, the annual feast day, millions of devotees gather to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene. They take part i...
Minneapolis, Minn., Jan 5, 2017 / 04:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Two Minnesota parents are facing charges of child neglect after they prayed over their severely ill son rather than seeking medical attention just prior to the child’s death. A criminal complaint says the couple, Sarah Johnson, 38, and Timothy Johnson, 39, found their son Seth, 7, unresponsive and covered in vomit one morning in March 2015. The parents told authorities they had decided to pray over Seth and treat him with vitamins and honey the night before his death rather than call 911 because they had “issues with doctors.”The Johnsons said in social media postings that have since been deleted that they relied on their strong faith to overcome their son’s death, according to local news reports. But should the Johnson’s attempt to use a religious freedom defense in court, it almost certainly will fail, a legal counselor told CNA. “No religious freedom statute or law...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Mother's Day came early this yearat the Vatican.A number of feast days over the Advent and Christmasseasons gave Pope Francis a fresh opportunity to pay homage to the world's mothersand insist further on how and why he wants the entire church to become morematernal.But who is this archetypal mother figure the pope upholds?Pope Francis pointed to a few of his favorite biblical heroines, praising the seeminglycontradictory qualities of each:Like Mary, she is silently compliant to God's will; likeRachel, she weeps inconsolably, drawing God's and the world's attention to areality people would rather ignore; and like the persistent widow, she doesn'tlet being a nobody stop her from speaking up against injustice, making a fuss andpestering the one who does have power to make things right.So how and why does the church need to be this loving,humble, hard-as-nails champion? Let's count the ways:-- A cold, careless, selfish worl...
