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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell explored options for salvaging the battered Republican health care bill Wednesday but confronted an expanding chorus of GOP detractors, deepening the uncertainty over whether the party can resuscitate its bedrock promise to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a platform most politicians can only hope for: A captivated, 6,000-person crowd and more than an hour of live, prime-time television coverage to hype the Republican vision for a new health care system....
Detroit, Mich., Jun 28, 2017 / 11:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Venerable Solanus Casey, an American-born Capuchin priest who died in 1957 known for his ability as a spiritual counselor, will be beatified at a Nov. 18 Mass in Detroit, the local archdiocese announced Tuesday.“We are filled with joy at receiving the final date of the beatification of Father Solanus,” Father Michael Sullivan, OFM Cap. and Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, said June 27. “It is a beautiful way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his passing.”Venerable Casey was known for his great faith, attention to the sick, and ability as a spiritual counselor.The beatification Mass will be said at Ford Field in Detroit, which can accommodate as many as 60,000.Venerable Casey will be the second American-born male to be beatified.Born Bernard Casey on Nov. 25, 1870, he was the sixth child of 16 born to Irish immigrants in Wisconsin. At age 17 he left home to work ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Octavio DuranBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- As El Salvador's first cardinal receiveshis red hat June 28 at the Vatican, he will have the eyes of his flock at home butalso of the Washington area, home to approximately 260,000 Salvadorans -- oneof the largest communities of Salvadorans outside of the Central American nation.Cardinal-designate Gregorio Rosa Chavez has been a pastor,not just inside El Salvador, said Capuchin Franciscan Father Moises Villalta.For years, he has frequently visited Salvadorans abroad, includingmany who were forced to flee their native country during its civil conflict fromthe late 1970s until the early 1990s, said Father Villalta, a native of ElSalvador and pastor at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington. He hastried to learn about the diaspora and even spent time teaching someexpats and their children El Salvador's national popular spiritual hymn, whichis an ode to Christ as "savior of the world." "He has come (to the United St...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinals are not called to be"princes" of the church, but to serve the people of God and tacklethe sins of the world, Pope Francis told five new cardinals.Jesus "calls you to serve like him and with him, toserve the father and your brothers and sisters," the pope said as hecreated five new cardinals from five nations June 28.The new cardinals created during the prayer service inSt. Peter's Basilica were: Cardinals Jean Zerbo of Bamako, Mali, 73; Juan JoseOmella of Barcelona, Spain, 71; Anders Arborelius of Stockholm, 67;Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, apostolic vicar of Pakse, Laos, 73; andGregorio Rosa Chavez, 74, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.After reciting the Creed and taking an oath of fidelityto Pope Francis and his successors, each cardinal -- in his new red robes --went up to Pope Francis and knelt before him. The pope gave them each acardinal's ring, a red skullcap and a red three-cornered re...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Gunfire echoes through the pockmarked streets as Maj. Ihab Jalil al-Aboudi's soldiers fight block by block for the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, occasionally pausing to help terrified families flee to safety across the rubble....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Stacey English has modest desires for her 7-year-old daughter Addison: Be able to eat without gagging and move both her arms....
LONDON (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a former senior police commander with manslaughter on Wednesday in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster that left 96 people dead - long-awaited vindication for the families of the victims after authorities spent years blaming fans for the catastrophe....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior officials from the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security labored Wednesday to finalize rules for visitors from six mostly Muslim nations who hope to avoid the Trump administration's revived travel ban and come to the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate GOP leaders scrambled Wednesday for a deal to revive their health care legislation, but encountered new obstacles as recalcitrant senators doubled down on their opposition to the bill sought by President Donald Trump....
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