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JARRATT, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia man who killed a hospital security guard and a sheriff's deputy after escaping from custody in 2006 was executed Thursday after an unsuccessful campaign to spare the inmate's life over concerns about his mental health....
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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....
