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SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Shefveland's body was swollen with cancer, treatment after treatment failing until doctors gambled on a radical approach: They removed some of his immune cells, engineered them into cancer assassins and unleashed them into his bloodstream....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Great president or greatest?...
Vatican City, Jun 12, 2017 / 10:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis met on Thursday with a delegation from a Nigerian diocese which for the last four and a half years has refused to recognize the bishop who was appointed as its shepherd.He demanded that the clerics of the Diocese of Ahiara accept the bishop appointment that has been made, or face suspension and loss of office.Fr. Peter Okpaleke was appointed Bishop of Ahiara in December 2012 by Benedict XVI. But the Ahiara diocese is dominated by the Mbaise ethnic group. As an outsider from the nearby Diocese of Awka, Fr. Okpaleke was rejected by much of Ahiara's clergy and laity, who wanted one of their own to be appointed bishop over them.The Mbaise are among the most Catholic of Nigerian peoples – 77 percent of the diocese's population of 670,000 are Catholic. Nearby dioceses range between 19 and 70 percent Catholic.Families in the rural diocese foster priestly and religious vocations, with at least 167 priestly or...
Vatican City, Jun 12, 2017 / 12:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Consolation is never self-reliant, Pope Francis said during Mass on Monday, noting it is only possible to receive the Lord’s encouragement through another.“No one can console himself, no one – and whoever tries to do it ends up looking into the mirror – staring into the mirror and trying to ‘make oneself up,’” said the Pope during his June 12 Mass at the chapel of the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.“The experience of consolation, which is a spiritual experience, always needs ‘someone else’ in order to be full.”He reflected on the day’s readings, in which Saint Paul described the need for the Lord’s consolation in his second letter to the Corinthians, and the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew.He said the “doctors of the law” will not have true consolation because they are the ones who console themselves. “One ‘consoles’ ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Institute for the Works ofReligion, often referred to as the Vatican bank, made a profit of 36 millioneuros (about $40 million) in 2016, according to its annual report.The institute held assets worth 5.7 billion euros at year'send, which included deposits and investments from close to 15,000 clients --mostly Catholic religious orders around the world, Vatican offices andemployees, and Catholic clergy.Before the report's release, the 2016 financial statementswere audited by the firm Deloitte & Touche and were reviewed by theCommission of Cardinals overseeing the institute's work. According to a statement from the bank June 12, all of theprofits will be turned over to the Holy See, with none being placed in theinstitute's reserve account.According to the report, most of the institute's clients"are active in missions or perform charitable works at institutions suchas schools, hospitals or refugee camps." That work is conducted all overthe w...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Tens of thousands of protesters held anti-corruption rallies across Russia on Monday in a new show of defiance by an opposition that the Kremlin had once dismissed as ineffectual and marginalized....
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Security camera footage played Monday at a hearing for Penn State fraternity members shows a pledge in apparent agony in the hours after falling down basement steps - and members of the fraternity he had just joined trying to physically restrain him....
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A young woman charged with sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself was a "very troubled youngster" who eventually went along with his plan to take his own life, a psychiatrist testified for the defense Monday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday chaired the first meeting of his full Cabinet, saying the team is here to "change Washington."...
SEATTLE (AP) -- Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban Monday, saying the administration violated federal immigration law and failed to provide a valid reason for keeping people from six mostly Muslim nations from coming to the country....
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