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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The New York Yankees made an early push for playoff run Tuesday night, acquiring infielder Todd Frazier and relievers David Robertson and Tommy Kahnle from the Chicago White Sox for reliever Tyler Clippard and three prospects....
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -- Some call it one of the scariest places on Earth; others view it more as a tourist spot....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are pressing ahead with a budget plan designed to help the party to deliver on a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code....
DENVER (AP) -- One American was able to afford her toddler's latest heart operation. Another had the means to go back to college to pursue her dreams....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says it's probably time to "just let Obamacare fail" after the latest humiliating heath bill collapse in the Senate. Still, he's making a last-ditch effort to find some way to revive his party's seemingly failed efforts on the bill....
Moses, no doubt, one of the greatest figures in Scripture. His leadership of the Israelites out of Egypt into the promised land and bringing the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai...
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: Gospel - Mt 13: 24-30Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying:"The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a manwho sowed good seed in his field.While everyone was asleep his enemy cameand sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.The slaves of the householder came to him and said,'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?Where have the weeds come from?'He answered, 'An enemy has done this.'His slaves said to him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weedsyou might uproot the wheat along with them.Let them grow together until harvest;then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,&qu...
(Vatican Radio) A new report has found that at least 547 young members of the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir in Germany were subjected to physical and in some cases sexual abuse.The report accuses 49 members of the Church of carrying out the abuse between 1945 and the early 1990s.The lawyer tasked with investigating the abuse Ulrich Weber spoke about the investigation during a press conference in Regensburg."The fact is this: it is likely that there are almost 550 victims, of these 67 were victims of sexual violence; There are altogether 9 accused of carrying out sexual violence against children... There have been cases of severe physical and sexual violence, which have always been prohibited.Even physical violence, with rare exceptions, was forbidden even punishable in the era where the facts and our assessments are placed, and in any case not justified by the predominant mentality of the time... External institutions also have responsibilities ranging from "n...
Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jul 19, 2017 / 12:01 am (CNA).- Gunmen have abducted two Catholic priests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting the country’s bishops to plead that the captives not be harmed.“Priests are men of God who devote their lives to the good of the population without a political agenda. To hurt them is to harm the community they serve,” said the National Episcopal Conference of Congo.The bishops called on security forces to do everything they could to free the two priests.Fathers Charles Kipasa and Jean-Pierre Akilimali were abducted at Our Lady of the Angels parish in Bunyuka just before 10 p.m. Sunday, Reuters reports. About 10 assailants were involved in their abduction.Bunyuka is in North Kivu province in the country's east, fewer than 10 miles northeast of Butembo and near the border with Uganda.The Congolese bishops’ statement noted that three other priests abducted in the same area in October 2012 still h...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Calling all superheroes, sci-fi fans and genre lovers of all kinds: Comic-Con is here....
