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Los Angeles, Calif., Jun 7, 2017 / 11:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archbishop of Los Angeles has urged a prayerful and prudent response to a housing crisis in his city, relating the problem to the link between human and environmental ecology.“The housing crisis is a reminder that in God’s creation, there is an ecology of the human person and an ecology of the natural environment. We cannot think about the one without the other,”Archbishop José Gomez said in a June 6 column for the Angelus.His column follows outcry from fellow bishops and Catholic leaders who have criticized the Trump administration for withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement. The 2015 accord was signed by 191 countries dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.Last Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that the US would exit the deal, calling the agreement destructive to workers and business interests in the nation.Archbishop Gomez said the effects of climate ...
IMAGE: NS photo/London police handoutBy Jean Ko DinTORONTO(CNS) -- The death of a young Canadian Catholic woman during the London Bridgeattack has inspired people to help save lives in their own community.ChristineArchibald, 30, whose family lives in British Columbia, died in the June 3attack that also claimed seven other lives and injured 48 people.TheArchibald family, parishioners of St. Rita Parish in Castlegar, British Columbia, released astatement June 4 describing Christine Archibald as person who "had room in herheart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued andrespected.""Shelived this belief working in a shelter for the homeless until she moved toEurope to be with her fiance," the statement continued. "She wouldhave had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death. Pleasehonor her by making your community a better place. Volunteer your time and laboror donate to a homeless shelter. Tell them Chrissy sent you."Sincethe statement ...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The woman who accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and violating her more than a decade ago stood by her story at his sex-crimes trial Wednesday, withstanding hours of often tedious cross-examination that didn't produce the stumbles the TV star might have hoped for....
LONDON (AP) -- After a seven-week election campaign that veered from the boredom of staged soundbites to the trauma of two deadly attacks, Britain's political leaders asked voters Wednesday to choose: Who is best to keep the U.K. safe and lead it out of the European Union?...
The Senate committee investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election on Wednesday released the written testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey. He is set to testify under oath Thursday in a public hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence....
LONDON (AP) -- The youngest of the London Bridge attackers pleaded with his mother to settle with him in Syria but instead moved to Britain where his extremist views hardened and he fell into the company of a bloodthirsty gang that launched the latest attack on British streets, his mother said Wednesday....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A top Emirati diplomat said Wednesday "there's nothing to negotiate" with Qatar over a growing diplomatic dispute about the energy-rich nation's alleged funding of terror groups, signaling Arab countries now isolating it have no plans to back down....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a pair of stunning attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of its revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- President Donald Trump promised Wednesday to create a "first-class" system of roads, bridges and waterways by using $200 billion in public funds to generate $1 trillion in investment to pay for construction projects that most public officials agree are badly needed and long overdue....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump surprised Washington on Wednesday with his choice to replace James Comey a day ahead of the ousted FBI director's blockbuster congressional testimony, tapping a white-collar defense lawyer with strong law enforcement background. Senate Republicans and some Democrats praised the nomination....
