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By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Never speak, act or make a decisionwithout first listening to the Holy Spirit, who moves, troubles and inspiresthe heart, Pope Francis advised.A cold and calculating heart that is closed to the HolySpirit results in a faith that is "ideological," he said May 29during a morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.Knowing God and his commandments, and being good are notenough, the pope said. One must also receive God's gift of the Holy Spirit andlet him "trouble" the heart.If people were to get a "spiritual electrocardiogram,"the pope asked, would it be flatlined because the heart is hardened, unmovedand emotionless or would it be pulsating with the prompting and prods of theSpirit?"Am I able to listen him? Am I able to ask for hisinspiration before making a decision or saying something or doing something? Oris my heart serene, without emotion, an immobile heart," much like thedoctors of the law had, he asked."They believed in God, they...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Best familyBy Ed LangloisPORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- On acrowded Portland commuter train May 26, a selfless Catholic father of fourstepped forward to calm a tense situation. He was that kind of guy.Rick Best defended two womenbeing accosted by a passenger yelling hate speech about Muslims and othergroups. Best, a 53-year-old member of Christ the King Parish in Milwaukie,Oregon, would die for his noble deed.In less than a minute, he andanother defender were slain, slashed in the neck in front of horrifiedonlookers. A third man survived the knife attack.Best's funeral Mass is set for June5 at Christ the King Church.The accused killer, 35-year-oldJeremy Christian, had been on a racially charged rampage. With a history ofpolice run-ins going back 15 years at least, he was caught on camera in April,draped in an American flag and repeatedly yelling bigoted epithets during ademonstration in Portland. On his Facebook page, he posted a photo of himselfperforming the Naz...
A New Jersey town will pay an Islamic group $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit over its denial of a permit to build a mosque, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday....
PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Manuel Noriega had become a problem. At least that's the way it looked from Washington....
EDITOR'S NOTE: On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown that instilled fear in hundreds of thousands of nearby residents and changed the way Americans viewed the technology. With the announcement Tuesday that Exelon Corp. plans to close the plant unless the state gives it some financial help, The Associated Press is republishing an April 8, 1979, story examining the day of the accident and the seven days...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Cheap natural gas could do what the worst commercial nuclear power accident in U.S. history could not: put Three Mile Island out of business....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon, the internet goliath that revolutionized the way much of the world buys books, toilet paper and TVs, hit a new milestone Tuesday. Its stock surpassed the $1,000 mark for the first time....
BEIRUT (AP) -- As the U.S.-led coalition ratchets up operations in Syria, there are concerns that it will result in a rerun of what happened in Iraq, where $1 billion in weapons supplied to local fighters are unaccounted for....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Katy Perry will join Ariana Grande at a charity concert in Manchester, England, on Sunday....
Police found Tiger Woods asleep at the wheel on the side of a six-lane Florida road in the dark of morning, the engine running and his right blinker flashing. His speech was slow and slurred, though there was no alcohol in his system and he didn't know how far away he was from home....
