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Seattle, Wash., Nov 22, 2016 / 04:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The stories of poor people – and the need for Christians to help them – are the focus of the Washington state bishops’ newest pastoral letter. “When we stop and look into the face of poverty, we recognize that ‘the poor’ are not strangers. They are our sisters and brothers, members of our human family,” the state’s bishops said in their Nov. 17 pastoral letter.“Hunger, homelessness, illness and broken dreams shatter the bonds of community that hold us together, bonds that contribute to civic peace and stability,” the bishops added. “As people of faith, our relationship with God brings us into relationship with every other person, and the needs of others call us to share the gift of love we have received from our loving and merciful Father.”The pastoral letter “Who is My Neighbor? The Face of Poverty in Washington State” reviews the storie...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, ReutersBy Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- Like many others, the U.S. Catholic bishops are trying tofigure out how to deal with a president-elect who's different from anyone they'vedealt with in the past and one involved in one of the most rancorous elections inmodern times. As a candidate, Republican Donald Trump, said some things that provedhurtful and worrisome to groups of Latino and black Catholics, but also gavehope to Catholics concerned about religious freedom and abortion.At the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops in Baltimore in mid-November, church leaders tried to urge calm,caution and promote unity following an election season fueled by vitriol, name-callingand fear."The dust hasn't settled on the election yet," said BishopChristopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, during a Nov. 14 news conference,adding that as a group of bishops, "we've just begun a conversation about howwe're going to move forward."This ele...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The United Nations is preparing to embark on talks to ban nuclear weapons.Negotiations are set to begin in March and are expected to take an indefinite time to complete.The end result is uncertain, but the 123 nations that voted Oct. 27 for a resolution within the U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with international security matters to open the talks showcase a clear frustration with the slow pace of nuclear disarmament.The final tally showed 38 nations, including the nine nuclear weapons states and those under the nuclear umbrella, voting against the resolution; 16 nations abstained.The recent U.N. resolution was welcomed by several arms control advocates including those with the church involved for decades on the nuclear issue."What is important about this initiative is that it's coming from people who are not nuclear weapons states and who are saying, 'If you use these weapons, we're living on the same ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Reporters at The New York Times tweeted details from a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as it happened on Tuesday, contrasting it with an off-the-record session Trump held a day earlier with leaders at the top television networks....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A New York woman seriously hurt protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline faces multiple surgeries and could lose an arm, her father said Tuesday, and protesters and law enforcement gave conflicting accounts about what might have caused the explosion that injured her....
MASON, Mich. (AP) -- A former USA Gymnastics doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in his home with a girl under 13, charges that Michigan's attorney general said are the "tip of the iceberg" as authorities investigate roughly 50 complaints....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A bomb stuffed inside a padded envelope exploded in a downtown apartment early Tuesday when a man opened the package, apparently thinking it contained medicine, police said. The man was hospitalized with hand and chest injuries....
DETROIT (AP) -- A spokeswoman for the Detroit Police Department said that an officer from a university in the city has been shot....
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A school bus driver was behind bars Tuesday after a crash killed five youngsters and plunged Chattanooga into mourning over what the mayor called the "most unnatural thing in the world" - a parent losing a child....
ATLANTA (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is again distancing himself from the alt-right movement as its white supremacist members claim his election as a boon for their agenda....
