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BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's government ignored a rebel cease-fire proposal for Aleppo on Wednesday as its forces captured new neighborhoods around the city center and squeezed some 200,000 tired and frightened civilians into a shattered and rapidly shrinking opposition enclave....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly carved out a reputation as a highly respected, but often outspoken commander who could roil debate with blunt assessments or unpopular directives on issues ranging from women in combat to the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet officers Wednesday whose backgrounds suggest he's primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even as he seemed to soften his yearlong stance on immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children....
(Vatican Radio) US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are meeting in Germany to discuss efforts to halt fighting in the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo. The two are meeting in the northern city of Hamburg on the sidelines of a gathering of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that opens Thursday.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos:  Secretary of State Kerry, who is on a farewell tour in Europe, and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov meet at a time of mounting East-West tensions over how to end Syria's five-year civil war that has killed some 400,000 people.The focus of their talks will be on Aleppo as it has become a symbol of suffering.American officials have condemned what they view as the indiscriminate bombing of eastern Aleppo by Russian-backed Syrian government forces and reiterated their calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, a step that Russian and Chinese diplomats previously vetoed at the Un...
Vatican City, Dec 7, 2016 / 12:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The updated version of the Vatican's document on priestly formation, released Wednesday, deals with issues of clericalism, homosexuality, and the protection of minors, among other things.“To be a good priest, in addition to having passed all the exams, a demonstrated human, spiritual and pastoral maturation is necessary,” Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, told L'Osservatore Romano Dec. 7. He was commenting on The Gift of the Priestly Vocation, his department's new edition of its “fundamentals of priestly formation.”“I think it is superfluous to add that other minor innovations could be gathered from the text, from the standpoint of approaches to the question, vocabulary used, the formative methodology proposed, and the impulse given by the current Pontifical Magisterium,” Cardinal Stella added.Media coverage of the document has emphasized that i...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church needs holy,healthy and humble priests and that requires prayers for vocations and thecareful selection and training of candidates, said the Congregation for Clergy.Updating 1985 guidelines for preparing men for theLatin-rite priesthood and ensuring their continuing education, training andsupport, the Congregation for Clergy Dec. 7 released "The Gift of thePriestly Vocation," a detailed set of guidelines and norms for priestlyformation.The updated document draws heavily on St. John Paul II's 1992apostolic exhortation on priestly formation, as well as on the teaching of andnorms issued by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis and by Vaticanoffices over the past three decades.It reaffirms an instruction approved by Pope Benedict in2005, which said, "the church, while profoundly respecting the persons inquestion, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality,present deep-seated homosexua...
BEIRUT (AP) -- With rebel defenses crumbling in eastern Aleppo, President Bashar Assad is on the brink of regaining full control of Syria's largest city and one-time commercial center. Holding the city is seen as key to overall victory in the Syrian conflict, and a defeat in Aleppo would be a crushing blow to the rebels....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Significant Islamic State group counterattacks in southeastern Mosul inflicted heavy losses on Iraqi forces overnight after a new push deeper into the city this week, according to an Iraqi Army officer....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof had a "cold and hateful heart" when he pulled a pistol from his fanny pack during a Bible study last year and killed nine black church members as they closed their eyes for a final prayer, a prosecutor said Wednesday....
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