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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- New South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday he was open to visiting rival North Korea under the right conditions to talk about Pyongyang's aggressive pursuit of nuclear-tipped missiles....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With his stunning firing of FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump is propelling the presidency into rarely traversed territory....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the firing of FBI Director James Comey (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey Tuesday, dramatically ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an FBI investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's meddling in the election that sent him to the White House....
Paris, France, May 9, 2017 / 02:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After Emmanuel Macron won the presidential elections in France, the head of the country's bishops urged the new leader to help alleviate local woes such as unemployment and political division.“Macron's election was significant...we have to wish him success for the good of our country,” Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseilles said.“Tensions are such...the changes, the uncertainties are such that he must succeed.”On May 7, 39-year-old centrist Macron beat Marine Le Pen, the far right candidate of the National Front party with 66 percent of the vote.Macron will take office May 14 and will have to deal with a slate of difficulties for the country such as unemployment, terrorist threats and political division.Speaking to Vatican Radio, Archbishop Pontier said one of the priorities for Macron's government to fight unemployment, as “this is certainly most destructive for persons, families, fo...
Norwich, England, May 9, 2017 / 03:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Neither the narrow narrative against religion nor the real failings of the Church should define the role of Catholics in public life, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh has said.“Our challenge is to present to the world the edifying and inspiring witness of people of faith,” said the archbishop. “We are impacted by the process of secularization. We live, breathe, work and believe alongside people of other traditions, faiths and none and the pressure on believers to conform, to become just like everyone else, is often immense and overpowering.”The Northern Ireland-based Archbishop Martin, who is Primate of All Ireland, delivered the 2017 Newman Lecture May 8 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. He gave an Irish perspective on the Church in the public sphere, and his speaking notes were published on the website of the Irish bishops' conference.About 78 percent of Ireland’s 4.76 million ...
Oklahoma City, Okla., May 9, 2017 / 05:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The governor of Oklahoma vetoed a bill that would have drastically increased the interest rates of payday loans, joining the fight of the bishops around the country who have pushed back on similar legislation.“House Bill 1913 adds yet another level of high interest borrowing without terminating or restricting access to existing payday loan products,” Governor Mary Fallin said in her veto statement last week.The bill was vetoed May 5, with Fallin voicing her concern that the loans created by the bill would be “more expensive than the current loan options.”Bishops throughout the U.S. have decried the use of payday loans, and have backed legislation which would restrict the effect these loans on have on the borrowers – communities who are often targeted for their lack of education and immediate need. Catholic Charities has even opened organizations which may assist those in need or struggling w...
By SANSALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Pope Francis warned bishops from across theWestern Hemisphere that corruption poses a grave threat to the people of LatinAmerica. He also reiterated calls for the church to work closely with people torenew their hope. In aletter to the Latin American bishops' council, or CELAM, meeting in El Salvadorthrough May 12, Pope Francis said corruption "is one of the most serioussins that plagues our continent today." "Corruptiondevastates lives by immersing them in the most extreme poverty. Corruption,which destroys entire populations by subjecting them to precariousness.Corruption that, like a cancer, consumes the daily life of our people. And thereare so many of our brothers and sisters who, admirably, go out to fight," hewrote. TheArgentine pope used the story of Our Lady of Aparecida, considered the principalpatroness of Brazil, to emphasize his message of hope. The statue was said tohave helped bring faith -- and a bountiful catch -- to three fisher...
IMAGE: CNS/Tyler OrsburnBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Bishops attending a meeting were among the first to sign theNational Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty at the U.S. bishops' headquartersbuilding May 9.Eachperson taking the pledge promises to educate, advocate and pray for an end tocapital punishment."AllChristians and people of goodwill are thus called today to fight not only forthe abolition of the death penalty, whether legal or illegal, and in all itsforms, but also in order to improve prison conditions, with respect for thehuman dignity of the people deprived of their freedom," Pope Francis hassaid. This quotation kicks off the pledge.The pledgedrive is organized by the Catholic Mobilizing Network."Thedeath penalty represents a failure of our society to fulfill the demands ofhuman dignity, as evidenced by the 159 people and counting who have beenexonerated due to their innocence since 1973," the organization says onthe pledge sheet following space for someone's ...
WOODSTOCK, Ala. (AP) -- Attention is often a hard-won commodity out in the country, and sometimes it's the last thing a little town wants....
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