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Washington D.C., Jul 12, 2017 / 10:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Amidst a growing epidemic of drug overdose and opioid addiction, Catholic bishops have been speaking out on the need for prayer and solidarity with those suffering from addiction.“The closer you get to the Catholic Church, the closer you get to the wounds of Christ,” Bishop Edward Burns of Dallas said during a June 14 press conference at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ recent meeting in Indianapolis.“And it’s important for us to recognize that we accompany many people who are wounded,” he added. “It’s the very essence of the Church to reach out to those who are wounded.”The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared that opioid abuse is an “epidemic” in the United States. Every day, 91 Americans die of an opioid-related overdose. The drugs include those used in prescription painkillers like oxycodone, codeine, and morphine, but also...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jean Gonzalez, Florida CatholicBy Jean GonzalezORLANDO,Fla. (CNS) -- In 1955 in Mississippi, a white woman lied and told her husband thatEmmett Till, a black teen, flirted with her in the grocery story. Inretaliation, her husband and another man kidnapped, beat, shot and lynched theyouth.Hisbody was found three days after his murder and returned to his native Chicago.His mother had an open casket for the 14-year-old's funeral, where tens ofthousands visited his body. Among them were an 11-year-old Edward Braxton, hisbrother, Lawrence, and his uncle, Ellis. They waited two hours in line to viewthe body."Ipeered into the glass coffin and beheld the terrifying remains of a viciousmurder," said the now 73-year-old bishop of Belleville, Illinois. "He did notlook like a human being. Emmett's mother was sitting in a chair, uncontrollablecrying, saying, 'My baby. My baby. Why? Why did I send him down South. I lookedinto her red-rimmed eyes not knowing what to say."UncleElli...
One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded, a trillion-ton behemoth more than seven times the size of New York City, has broken off of Antarctica, triggering disagreement among scientists over whether global warming is to blame....
A 20-year-old linked to a Pennsylvania farm at the center of a search for four missing men tried to sell one man's car after he went missing, even as it contained the man's "life-saving" diabetic kit, authorities announced Wednesday....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and money laundering on Wednesday, the most high-profile conviction yet in a sweeping graft investigation that has jailed dozens of the Latin American country's elite....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has told Hispanic lawmakers that a program that protects young immigrants from deportation is likely illegal, though he is personally supportive....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI broke with the president in key areas Wednesday, rejecting the idea that an investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump election campaign is a "witch hunt" and promising not to cave to any pressure from a White House that has challenged boundaries with the nation's top law enforcement agency....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to question the former chairman of the Trump campaign and will subpoena him if necessary, the panel's Republican chairman said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the controversy surrounding a meeting last summer between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton (all times local):...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday....
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