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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Donald Trump's transition to the presidency (all times EST):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his New York skyscraper Tuesday night for the first time in days, moving about the nation's largest city without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts....
Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2016 / 02:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the recent presidential election, the new president of the U.S. Bishops is adamant about standing with all vulnerable persons, including the unborn and immigrants.“I would want our work as shepherds and leaders to bring Catholics together to recognize the beauty of the human person, even if someone disagrees with you,” Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston-Galveston, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said on Tuesday.“From our point of view, we certainly respect the government,” he noted of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. However, “we also have a shepherd's heart,” he added, insisting that the Church will continue to serve the hungry and thirsty and welcome the stranger.Cardinal DiNardo spoke at a press conference at the fall general assembly of the U.S. bishops in Baltimore, Md. As the vice president of the bishops conference, ...
Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2016 / 03:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Race relations, racism, and violence were on the mind of the United States bishops during their fall general assembly in Baltimore.“The Church has a tremendous opportunity, and an equally tremendous responsibility, to bring people together in prayer and dialogue to begin anew the vital work of fostering healing and lasting peace,” Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta told the gathering Nov. 14.The archbishop heads a task force established by the nation's bishops to promote peace following racial tensions and violence. It is trying to address “pervasive challenges” associated with race relations in the country, said the archbishop.Archbishop Gregory conveyed the recommendations of the task force and its consultants to the bishops’ general assembly on Monday afternoon.“Many stressed that the Church must find its bold prophetic voice at this time,” he said. “Participants emphas...
Rome, Italy, Nov 15, 2016 / 05:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religious freedom is under threat worldwide from phenomena like Islamic “hyper-extremism,” but there are also other dangers, a new report from Aid to the Church in Need says.“The importance of religious freedom is for me the difference between life and death,” Father Jacques Mourad said in the report’s foreword.The Christian monk was held by the Islamic State group in Syria for five months before his escape in October 2015.“Our world teeters on the brink of complete catastrophe as extremism threatens to wipe out all traces of diversity in society,” Fr. Mourad said. “But if religion teaches us anything it is the value of the human person, the need to respect each other as a gift from God.”Aid to the Church in Need is an international Catholic pastoral charity. Every two years it publishes a report that analyzes the state of religious freedom in 196 countries.The latest report,...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even though Cardinal-designateKevin J. Farrell had asked his secretary to hold all phone calls so he couldfinish his work, one caller insisted on getting through."She came in and said that the pope was on thetelephone, and I kind of laughed and said, 'Sure, the pope's on thetelephone,'" he said, adding that the secretary continued to insist itreally was the Holy Father because she knew his voice from television."And it was the pope," he told Catholic NewsService Nov. 15.Pope Francis made that surprise call in May to tell the then-bishop of Dallas he wasthe papal pick to lead a new super-dicastery bringing laity, family and lifetogether under one roof."Well, I nearly had to call 911 because I did notexpect that and I mustered my energy, my mind, to tell him a couple of reasonswhy I did not think I was the person for that job," he said.The then-bishop said he breathed a sigh of relief whenthe pope said to just think ab...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- The Catholic Church is one of the mostculturally diverse institutions in the United States and Catholic institutionsand ministries need to adapt and prepare for growing diversity, said a reportpresented to the country's bishops Nov. 15.The report, by the Center for Applied Research in theApostolate at Georgetown University, was commissioned by the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops' Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church in 2013 to helpidentify the size and distribution of ethnic communities in the country. Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, chairman ofthe committee, called the study "groundbreaking" because he said it combined,for the first time all available data from Catholic and non-Catholic sources and mappedthe multicultural and ethnic diversity of the church nationwide.Of the world's estimated 1.3 billion Catholics, the studyfound, less than 6 percent live in the United States.Of the U.S. Catho...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is under fire for failing to rein in fake and biased news stories that some believe may have swayed the presidential election. Its predicament stems from this basic conundrum: It exercises great control over the news its users see, but it declines to assume the editorial responsibility that traditional publishers do....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Russian missiles pounded opposition targets in Syria on Tuesday, the start of a much-anticipated offensive, while activists reported the resumption of bombing in rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo for the first time in nearly a month, apparently by Syrian government warplanes....
