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NEW YORK (AP) -- Making bombastic boasts. Dropping signature catch phrases. Attaching insults to rivals' names. Shouting down perceived enemies....
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump crowned his weekend rage against the news media with a mock video that shows him pummeling a man in a business suit - his face obscured by the CNN logo - outside a wrestling ring....
Orlando, Fla., Jul 2, 2017 / 08:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The rapidly changing realities of the Catholic Church in the U.S. bring a host of challenges and unknowns, but also great opportunities for evangelization and engagement, said experts at a gathering of Catholic leaders.“The future of U.S. Catholicism is being forged in areas once not central to U.S. Catholic life,” said Dr. Hosffman Ospino, associate professor of theology and religious education at Boston College. “Are we paying attention?”Dr. Ospino spoke at the “Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America” event on July 2 in Orlando, Florida.He explained to more than 3,500 attendees from parishes and Catholic organizations around the country how the face of the Church in the United States is rapidly changing. In particular, he pointed to the rapid growth throughout the nation, particularly in the South and West of Hispanic communities. He also noted swift growth of oth...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A doctor who appears to have been the target of a former physician who started shooting at a hospital, killing one person and injuring six, said he has no idea why he would have been singled out....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club where he was performing just 24 hours later, and authorities said several firearms were recovered during the arrest....
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Vatican City, Jul 2, 2017 / 01:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Stepping into a tumultuous legal battle involving a UK couple's push for a say in the treatment and death of their terminally ill son, Pope Francis has offered his prayers for the child, and asked that the parents' wishes be respected.“The Holy Father follows with affection and emotion the story of Charlie Gard and expresses his own closeness to his parents,” read a July 2 statement issued by Vatican spokesman Greg Burke.“He prays for them, wishing that their desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end will be respected.”The statement was made as the tense legal battle between Gard's parents and the UK officials regarding how and when he will die comes to an end.At just 11 months, Gard suffers from a rare degenerative brain disease called infantile onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, or MDDS.With only 16 known cases in the world, the disease caus...
Orlando, Fla., Jul 2, 2017 / 02:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It’s been nearly four years since Pope Francis released his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii gaudium, or “The Joy of the Gospel.” But what does it look like to truly live out the Joy of the Gospel in the U.S.?That’s the question behind an unprecedented gathering of Catholic leaders from around the country this summer.On the weekend of July 4th, hundreds of bishops are joining with thousands of Catholic leaders from around the country to participate in “The Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America,” a four-day conference to share experiences about the Church engaging with modern U.S. culture.“Never before has such a large and diverse group assembled under the guidance of the bishops,” said Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, who chairs the bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. Speaking to his brother bishops in a June&nbs...
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 2, 2017 / 04:03 pm (CNA).- The doctors at the Children's Hospital in San Miguel, Argentina, find no explanation for the quick recovery of Martin Chain – a three-year-old boy who fell from the ninth floor when he was playing on the balcony of his apartment.The June 7 accident left the boy on the verge of death. However, he only took 20 days to recover and shows no signs of long-term complications.“I was working when I got a voice mail from my husband Maximo. He was screaming. He told me that Martin had fallen off the balcony,” the child's mother, Florencia Núñez, told the local Clarin newspaper.The day of the accident, Martin's father was fixing something to eat when the little boy went by himself out to the balcony and climbed up onto the railing while playing. Martin then fell almost 100 feet down to the courtyard of the building with nothing breaking the impact.“As he peered out, Maxi saw Piti (Ma...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) --Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl urged participants at the "Convocation ofCatholic Leaders: The Joy of The Gospel in America" to take a look at eachother in the hotel ballroom and realize that they, as lay leaders in thechurch, are responsible for spreading the Gospel message and they shouldn'twaste the moment."This is not something newthat we haven't heard before," he told the delegates in Orlando in a July 2 keynote address.The cardinal stressed the senseof urgency of evangelizing and inviting others to Christ, stressing thatCatholics have a perfect role model for this in Pope Francis, who hascontinually presented the church as inviting and open.Cardinal Wuerl also acknowledgedthat Catholics are not always comfortable with the idea of evangelizing butthey need to be willing to step out of themselves and talk with people abouttheir faith as part of an encounter often spoken of by Pope Francis.An encounter is no...
