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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government took full control of Aleppo on Thursday for the first time in four years after the last opposition fighters and civilians were bused out of war-ravaged eastern districts, sealing the end of the rebellion's most important stronghold....
Christmas is just a couple of days away – this Sunday.  And in view of the festivities ahead, we thought of hearing from Bangladesh’s new Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, the Archbishop of Dhaka.  He is one of the 17 new cardinals that Pope Francis created during a ceremony in the Vatican on Nov. 19.  The selection s well as creation of Archbishop D’Rozario as cardinal by Pope Francis is indeed historic. The 73-year old Holy Cross prelate is not only Bangladesh’s first cardinal but he is also the first cardinal from among the Bengali-speaking people on either side of the divided Bengal, inhabiting Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal state.Card. D’Rozario earlier served as Bishop of Rajshahi from 1990 to ’95, and then Bishop of Chittagong from 1995 to 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of Dhaka.  He became the Archbishop of Dhaka the following year. We called Card. D’Rozario on his...
Over 2,000 inmates at the Tihar complex, the largest jail in India, took part in the Christmas celebration organized by the Prison Ministry of India (PMI) on Monday. PMI is a national voluntary organization recognized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India. It has around 6,000 volunteers, including priests, nuns and lay people, helping the jail inmates in about 800 prisons across the country. PMI annually organizes Christmas and other cultural programs for the prisoners across the country to bring joy to the inmates and advocate a message of peace and love in society.Father Savari Raj, PMI regional coordinator, told ucanews.com that for the past 10 days PMI has been organizing Christmas programs, including cultural events and Christmas carols, for prisoners in different jails across the country. "PMI organizes cultural performances by school children for inmates on patriotic and festive themes. It is just a way of making the prisoners feel part of society," Fat...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis, in his sollicitude for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta -- a lay religious Order (cfr. Constitutional Charter, art. 1, para. 1) that has, among its ends, that of “service to the faith and to the Holy Father” (ibid., art. 2, para. 1) – has ordered the establishment of a group of five authoritative members with the mandate of gathering evidence in order to inform the Holy See completely and in a short time about the event that has recently concerned the Grand Chancellor of the Order, Albrect Freiherr von Boeselager. This group is composed of Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, CS; Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, SJ; Avv. Jacques de Liedekerke; Mr Marc Odendall; Mr Marwan Sehnaoui.
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The reform of the Roman Curia is not a mere face-lift torejuvenate an aging body but a process of deep, personal conversion, PopeFrancis said.Meetingwith cardinals and the heads of Vatican offices for his annual Christmasgreeting, the pope warned that "it is not wrinkles the church shouldfear" but rather the stains that impede its growth and relevance in theworld."Thereform does not have an aesthetical end to make the Curia more beautiful; itcannot be understood as a sort of face-lift or applying makeup to beautify theelderly curial body, nor plastic surgery to remove wrinkles," the popesaid Dec. 22.Whilehis addresses in previous years focused on curial ills and medicinal virtues,this year's speech laid out a 12-step program of guiding principles gearedtoward an appropriate and long-lasting recovery."Itwas necessary to speak of illnesses and cures so that every operation -- to achievesuccess -- be preceded by an in-depth diagnosis, by acc...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two of Matt Lauer's former "Today" show co-hosts - Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira - are returning to the show for a week each in January with Savannah Guthrie on maternity leave....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- She is a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three. She recently had surgery to remove a malignant tumor, but doctors say she's doing well....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the fastest pace in two years and more than the government had previously estimated. But the growth spurt isn't expected to last....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy may be defined as much by what he didn't do as by what he did....
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