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Mexico City, Mexico, Jul 6, 2017 / 03:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Authorities are investigating the murder of another Catholic priest in Mexico who was bound and stabbed to death in his room.According to local media, Father Luis López Villa, parish priest of San Isidro Labrador in Mexico State, was found dead in his room shortly after 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The suspects, who entered the rectory after breaking into the church, made enough noise to raise the suspicions of neighbors, who alerted church staff to the incident.When the staff arrived, they found the 71-year-old priest dead in his room with his hands and feet tied and a stab wound in his neck and chest.The suspects have not yet been identified.Fr. Villa is the 18th priest to be murdered in Mexico in the last six years, with many more having been assaulted or kidnapped. In May, a priest was stabbed at the conclusion of Mass in Mexico City’s Cathedral, though he survived the attack.  Cardinal Norberto Rivera,...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Many of the Catholic leaders attending the July 1-4 gathering inOrlando, Florida, have been to enough retreats or conferences over the years toknow that the real challenge comes when they try to put what they heard intopractice.Inspired and a little overwhelmedcould describe the follow-up reaction of some delegates from the "Convocationof Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" who spoke toCatholic News Service near the end of the conference, when they returned home,or as was the case for one delegate -- when she went straight to a vacation."I took 30 pages ofhandwritten notes and I'm trying to copy them while I can still readthem," said Deacon Christopher Ast, director of the Office of thePermanent Diaconate for the St. Louis Archdiocese.He saidhe is still processing some of the breakout sessions he attended that took aclose look at the work the church is doing and its challenges ahead. He also isconvinced the archdiocesan delegati...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence got an insider's look at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday and promised more glory days ahead for "this gateway to the stars."...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois House voted Thursday to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a budget package, giving the state its first spending blueprint in more than two years and ending the nation's longest fiscal stalemate since at least the Great Depression....
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Four young children and their father were found slain in a home outside Atlanta early Thursday, and police say the mother - now charged with their deaths - was the one who called 911 to report the killings....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight years after the Great Recession ended, the economy is steadily churning out jobs, and the unemployment rate is at a 16-year low....
Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A pre-emptive military strike may be among the "pretty severe things" President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it's a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Most U.S. presidents use their foreign trips to promote the virtues of American democracy. President Donald Trump did some of that, too. But he didn't hesitate to use his quick visit to Poland to air some pointed grievances, blasting his predecessor, casting doubt on his own spy agencies and unloading on news outlets by name....
(Vatican Radio) A 19 year old Aboriginal student from Brisbane has been named as the inaugural Francis Xavier Conaci scholar, an initiative providing educational opportunities for young people from Australia’s Indigenous communities.Nathan Pitt was announced on Thursday as the first student to be awarded the scholarship, which allows him to study this month at the Rome campus of Australian Catholic University. He’s currently studying psychology at ACU’s Brisbane campus and plans to pursue a career providing mental health support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote, rural  communities.The scholarship is named after a 19th century Aboriginal student, Francis Xavier Conaci, who was encouraged by a Benedictine abbot in Western Australia to travel to Rome to study, in the hope that he could return to work as a monk within his native community. Conaci died in 1853 at the Rome abbey of St Paul’s Outside the Walls, but his legacy ...
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