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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump told Russian diplomats last week his firing of "nut job" James Comey had eased the pressure on him, even as the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation had moved into the White House, according to reports Friday that pursued the president as he began his maiden foreign trip....
Ostia, Italy, May 19, 2017 / 10:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Pope Francis made a Year-of-Mercy style visit to a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome, blessing the houses of a dozen people, as parish priests do every year during the Easter season.According to a May 19 Vatican communique, the Pope wanted to continue the “Mercy Friday” visits he made during the Jubilee of Mercy, which are signs “inspired by the corporal and spiritual works of mercy” he performed during the Holy Year.“As a sign of closeness to the families living on the peripheries of Rome, he decided to bless their houses one-by-one, as the pastor does every year during the Easter season,” the communique read.Two days ago Fr. Plinio Poncina, pastor of Stella Maris, one of the six parishes in Ostia, posted signs on the outside of the condo building notifying families that he would be stopping by to give the annual Easter blessing.Only lasting a few minutes, the blessing usu...
Vatican City, May 19, 2017 / 11:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis warned that ideologues sow confusion and division in the Church in the name of false clarity, rather than relying on the Pope, the bishops, and Church councils inspired by the Holy Spirit.“We are human, we are sinners,” he said, adding that there are difficulties even in the Church. Being sinners leads to humility and drawing closer to God who saves us.Looking to the early Church, Pope Francis made a distinction between those who had “forceful discussions” but “a good spirit,” and those who “sowed confusion.”“The group of the apostles who want to discuss the problem, and the others who go and create problems,” the Pope distinguished. “They divide, they divide the Church, they say that what the Apostles preached is not what Jesus said, that it is not the truth.”The Pope's words came in his homily at Casa Santa Martha May 19, Vatican Radio re...
San Salvador, El Salvador, May 19, 2017 / 01:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A nearly 40 year-old murder case was reopened this week to properly prosecute the suspected killer behind the Salvadorian archbishop's martyrdom.Because of an amnesty law that prohibited the prosecution of criminal acts stemming from the El Salvador Civil War, the alleged murderer of Archbishop Oscar Romero was never convicted of any crime. The law was lifted last year by the country’s constitutional court, reopening cases from 1980 to 1992.Judge Ricardo Chicas reopened the case on Thursday and ordered that charges be sought against the main suspect, whose case was dismissed in 1993 because of the amnesty law.Alvaro Rafael Saravia was a soldier and is the main suspect tied to a right-wing death squad who killed the priest at a hospital in San Salvador. Blessed Romero was killed while saying mass at the hospital’s chapel. The archbishop was well known for preaching against the country’s poverty...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Like parish priests throughout Italydo during the Easter season, Pope Francis spent an afternoon May 19 going doorto door and blessing homes.Continuing the "Mercy Friday" visits he beganduring the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis chose a public housing complex in Ostia,a Rome suburb on the Mediterranean Sea.The Vatican press office said Father Plinio Poncina, pastorof Stella Maris parish, put up signs May 17 announcing a priest would bevisiting the neighborhood to bless houses. The signs, which indicate a date andgive a time frame, are a common site in Italy in the weeks before and afterEaster."It was a great surprise today when, instead of thepastor, the one ringing the door bells was Pope Francis," the press officesaid. "With great simplicity, he interacted with the families, he blesseda dozen apartments" and left rosaries for the residents."Joking, he apologized for disturbing people, howeverhe reassured them that he...
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Decrease military spending and help the poor, said the U.S. bishops ina May 19 letter addressed to Congress, before lawmakers prepare to work on thefederal budget for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year.Thebudget requires difficult decisions, but lawmakers must "give centralimportance to 'the least of these,'" said the letter sent to all membersof the Senate and the House of Representatives on behalf of the U.S. Conferenceof Catholic Bishops and signed by the chairmen of six USCCB committees. Theletter urged lawmakers to "promote the welfare of workers and families whostruggle to live in dignity."Increasingfunding for defense and immigration enforcement while cutting "many domesticand international programs that assist the most vulnerable, would be profoundlytroubling," said the letter signed by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolanof New York and Bishops Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Christopher J.Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fl...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel said Friday that it had fired liberal commentator Bob Beckel for making a racially insensitive remark to a black employee....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- NAACP President Cornell William Brooks will not be returning as the leader of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, sources told The Associated Press on Friday....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Millions of Iranians voted late into the night Friday to decide whether incumbent President Hassan Rouhani deserves another four years in office after securing a landmark nuclear deal, or if the sluggish economy demands a new hard-line leader who could return the country to a more confrontational path with the West....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil's top prosecutor is accusing President Michel Temer of corruption and obstruction of justice, according to an investigation released by the country's supreme court on Friday....
