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By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Marietta Jaeger-Lane has faced the deathpenalty issue head-on.In 1973,when her 7-year-old daughter was kidnapped during a family camping trip inMontana and murdered by her captor, the mother of five said she would have killed the person who did it withher "bare hands.""Butmy Catholic faith calls me to something different," she said, explaininghow she came to a change her opinion on the death penalty, which she likened toa "wrestling match where God won."Jaeger-Lane,speaking to reporters in a May 11 press call officially launching the National CatholicPledge to End the Death Penalty, said most people have "a gut levelresponse to acts of extreme violence, but when they are educated on the realityof the death penalty, they begin to rethink their position."Shetold reporters that her daughter's kidnapper called her a year to the day ofthe kidnapping and was arrested soon after, but she asked the prosecutor for thealternative sentence of mandatory ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesFATIMA, Portugal (CNS) -- Mary's example of believing andfollowing Jesus is what matters most; she cannot be some image "of our ownmaking" who Christians barter with for mercy, Pope Francis said. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Marianapparitions at Fatima, the pope asked tens of thousands of pilgrims May 12 toreflect on "which Mary" they choose to venerate, "the virginMary from the Gospel" or "one who restrains the arm of a vengefulGod?"Is the Mary they honor "a woman blessed because shebelieved always and everywhere in God's words or a 'plaster statue' from whomwe beg favors at little cost?" he asked. As the sun set at the shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima,pilgrims held thousands of lit candles, filling the square with a fiery lightbefore Pope Francis led them in praying the rosary. The pope already had visited the shrine earlier in theevening, arriving by helicopter from Monte Real air base. Excited crowds, wavingflags ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The state's top prosecutor on Friday charged a speeding Amtrak engineer with causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and other crimes in a 2015 derailment that came after he accelerated to 106 mph on a 50 mph curve....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump and the FBI (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's federal prosecutors should bring the toughest charges possible against most crime suspects, Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed in a move that critics assailed as a return to failed drug-war policies that unduly affected minorities and filled prisons with nonviolent offenders....
FATIMA, Portugal (AP) -- Pope Francis urged Catholics on Friday to "tear down all walls" and spread peace as he traveled to this Portuguese shrine town to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the most unique events of the 20th-century Catholic Church: the visions of the Virgin Mary reported by three illiterate shepherd children and the "secrets" she told them....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on reported a global cyberattack (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack Friday that locked up computers and held users' files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ashley Graham may have curves, but she hates the term plus-size....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Raging against a political firestorm, President Donald Trump on Friday shot a sharp warning at his ousted FBI director about possible "tapes" of their disputed private conversations, raising the provocative possibility that recording devices have been installed in the White House....
