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Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 10, 2017 / 10:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas expressed Tuesday his “astonishment and rejection” of a series of measures that violate the “will of the sovereign people” in Venezuela.In an Aug. 8 statement, the cardinal denounced the eviction of the country's legislature, the National Assembly, from the Federal Legislative Palace. The action was taken so that the constituent assembly, tasked with rewriting the constitution, could meet in the building.“This is a measure astonishing for its violence and arbitrariness,” Cardinal Urosa said, adding that it “violates the will of the people who sovereignly elected the National Assembly in the December 2015 elections.”The National Assembly is controlled by the opposition, while the constituent assembly was elected July 30 in a process that has been denounced as fraudulent by bishops, much of the international community, and the company...
Washington D.C., Aug 10, 2017 / 11:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Dialogue and prudent actions to uphold international resolutions are key to maintaining peace amid rising tensions between North Korea and the international community, one theologian said.“Dialogue is critical to resolving this particular issue,” Dr. Joseph Capizzi, a moral theologian at the Catholic University of America, told CNA. “We have kicked the can down the road for 50-plus years, with regard to Korea.”“And the further we kick the can down the road, the more difficult the situation becomes, the less solvable it becomes by the use of force. So dialogue is more essential now than it ever was before.”The Vatican has shown concern over the developing situation and has also expressed the need for dialogue between countries. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, former Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, said on Wednesday that the “way of conflict is always the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Elio Desiderio, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As temperatures heated up in Italy inlate July and August, so did the debate over migration policy and,particularly, over the rescue of refugees and migrants attempting to cross theMediterranean Sea.Italian officials are investigating an Eritrean Catholicpriest and a German humanitarian organization on suspicion of "aiding andabetting illegal migration," but overcrowded and unseaworthy boatscarrying migrants and refugees continue to make their way toward Italy'sshores.For years Italy has been the first port of call for refugeesand migrants desperate to reach Europe and, as Pope Francis often has noted,the country has received little help from its European Union partners inrescuing, caring for and processing the newcomers.The EU's 2013 Dublin Accord stipulates that requests forasylum and migrant processing must be handled by the first EU country a migrantor refugee enters. Because of its geographical proximity ...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Directly addressing his nationalist base, a beleaguered leader accuses the news media of obsessively promoting a liberal agenda, conducting a "witch hunt against me and my family," and trying to overturn unpalatable electoral outcomes through sinister legal machinations....
DENVER (AP) -- The Latest on Taylor Swift's civil trial (all times local):...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A black market for diesel and gasoline has rapidly spread around the nation, with organized crime gangs using fraudulent credit cards to syphon millions of dollars in fuel from gas stations into large tanks hidden inside pickup trucks and vans....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rebuke of President Donald Trump, Republican Sen. John McCain declared Thursday that "America is adrift in Afghanistan" as he promoted a war strategy that would expand the U.S. counterterrorism effort and provide greater support to Afghan security forces....
DENVER (AP) -- Taylor Swift testified Thursday that a former radio DJ reached under her skirt and intentionally grabbed her backside during a meet-and-a-greet photo session before a 2013 concert in Denver....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana's governor declared a state of emergency in New Orleans on Thursday as the city's malfunctioning water-pumping system and the threat of more rain left some neighborhoods at greater risk of flooding....
ROME, N.Y. (AP) -- In his bed at a New York state group home for the severely disabled, Steven Wenger lay helpless against a silent invader....
