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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....
LONDON (AP) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange no longer is the subject of an active rape investigation in Sweden, but he remains holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London facing an unclear future because of uncertainty over whether American authorities will try to get him handed over next....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted to "kill them all" and police should have shot him to stop him, a prosecutor revealed Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has departed for his maiden overseas trip as president amid the controversy surrounding investigations into whether his campaign associates collaborated with Russia to sway the election....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- During his meeting with Russian officials last week, President Donald Trump said recently fired FBI Director James Comey was a "nut job" whose ouster relieved "great pressure" on him, according to a report Friday in The New York Times....
