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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Injecting the first diversity into his Cabinet-to-be, Donald Trump selected two Republican women on Wednesday who had unflattering things to say about him during the presidential campaign: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with the President of Vietnam, Tran Dai Quang, in a private audience on Wednesday.A statement from the Holy See Press Office said, "During the cordial meeting, the good relations between the Holy See and Vietnam were recalled, which are sustained by a common spirit of dialogue and the constant search for the correct instruments so that they may progress." The statement said the collaboration between the Church and the Vietnamese State was also highlighted.President Tran Dai Quang presented Pope Francis with a small drum with a bronze base, while the Holy Father gave him a medal of his pontificate and copies of Evangelii gaudium, Amoris laetitia, and Laudato si'.Afterwards, President Tran Dai Quang met with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and the Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic SpiritBy Matthew DavisMINNEAPOLIS(CNS) -- Hundreds filled the front steps of the Basilica of St. Mary inMinneapolis Nov. 20 following Mass to witness the closing of the church's HolyDoors, marking the end of the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year of Mercy.Amongthem were Jonathan Thompson and Julia Waletzko, who had held hands and grinnedas they passed through the doors a final time. The pair, who met at the basilicaat a Bible study on Valentine's Day, had gotten engaged just hours earlier."Theclosing of the Holy Doors was a big draw," Thompson said of the couple'sdecision to attend the closing Mass. "It was such a peaceful experience."ArchbishopBernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis presided at the evening Mass andthen invited the congregation to process out of the Holy Doors before heceremoniously closed them. With the Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Maron inMinneapolis, the basilica was one of three local churches with designated HolyDoo...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- They came by the hundreds - men, women and children fleeing the battle for Mosul, some bloodied and crying out for help. So large was the crowd on the road that Iraqi troops initially ordered them back, worried that an Islamic State suicide bomber could be hiding among them....
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The man who seven years ago ambushed and fatally shot one of the few U.S. doctors performing late-term abortions was given a more lenient sentence Wednesday of at least 25 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole....
NEW YORK (AP) -- This holiday season, elves and "joy" may be on the way out and "peace" and "hope" on the way in. A divisive election that left half the country deflated and the other half rejuvenated could reverberate through the holiday shopping season in the gifts people give or how they spend....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Elizabeth Thompson can't wait to leave the big city behind and decompress over the Thanksgiving holiday at her grandmother's house in rural south-central Indiana. But first she has to get there....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The revelation that President-elect Donald Trump does not intend to seek a new investigation into Hillary Clinton was startling not only because it seemed to reverse a campaign pledge....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Gov. Nikki Haley has developed a national reputation as a racial conciliator who led the charge to bring down the Confederate flag at the Statehouse and guided South Carolina through one of its darkest moments, the massacre at a black church....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and prominent charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as his secretary of education, the first women selected for top-level administration posts in his new administration....
