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CINCINNATI (AP) -- An American college student whose parents say has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea was released and returned to the United States Tuesday as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country....
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’ ...
Vatican City, Jun 13, 2017 / 02:09 pm (CNA).- Philosopher Nigel Biggar, who backs legal abortion, is among the 45 new appointments to the Pontifical Academy for Life, according to a statement on the Vatican website. Biggar, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, has said that he supports legal abortion up to 18 weeks. In a 2011 dialogue with Peter Singer, a philosopher who supports infanticide, Biggar said: “I would be inclined to draw the line for abortion at 18 weeks after conception, which is roughly about the earliest time when there is some evidence of brain activity, and therefore of consciousness. In terms of maintaining a strong social commitment to preserving human life in hindered forms, and in terms of not becoming too casual about killing human life, we need to draw the line much more conservatively.” He added: “It’s not clear that a human foetus is the same kind of thing as an adult or a ma...
Padua, Italy, Jun 13, 2017 / 04:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Church celebrates St. Anthony of Padua, his widespread popularity can be traced to his efforts at reaching out as a neighbor to all peoples, according to the rector of the basilica where the saint's body rests.“The devotion to the Saint of the Peoples is truly universal perhaps because he himself desired to consider all the world his as his home,” Father Oliviero Svanera, rector of the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua, told CNA.“He was Portuguese by birth, he went to Morocco to spread the faith, he landed in Sicily by shipwreck, then he went back up the Italian peninsula all the way to Assisi and joined the friars of St. Francis, who sent him all the way to France.Once St. Athony returned to Italy he was appointed provincial superior and served in Padua, where he died in 1231.“It is told that he would speak one language made of a thousand accents but which was understandable to all,” Fr....
By HOUSTON (CNS) -- Locallaw enforcement and local jurisdictions should not be required to enforce federalimmigration law, said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston,president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Local law enforcementofficials "work long hours to protect our communities" and efforts tocharge them with the responsibility of enforcing immigration law should beopposed, he said, because this "would fundamentally alter the relationshipour local law enforcement officials maintain with local communities, especiallyimmigrant communities."Local police can workwith federal law enforcement in dealing with "violent criminalaliens," Cardinal DiNardo said, but the "burden" of enforcingfederal immigration law would be "taking away from their efforts to ensurepublic safety" while they are "pursuing those who are otherwiselaw-abiding." He added, "It also makes immigrant communitiesreluctant to report crimes and to cooperate with the police."Cardinal DiNardo madehis r...
PEWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) -- The man who parlayed a run on TV's "The Apprentice" into a winning presidential campaign said Tuesday the nation needs a stronger system of apprenticeship to match workers with millions of open jobs....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave more than two hours of sometimes heated testimony Tuesday, with Democrats demanding details of matters including conversations with President Donald Trump, interactions with the Russian ambassador and the firing of FBI Director James Comey. The appearance before the Senate intelligence committee gave Sessions a chance to defend himself, but offered little new insight....
HASSAN SHAM U2 CAMP, Iraq (AP) -- Food poisoning at a camp for displaced residents of Mosul has made more than 700 people sick, with hundreds hospitalized, Iraqi officials said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An American college student who has been in a coma, according to his parents, while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea, was released and evacuated Tuesday as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country....
