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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bill O'Reilly is taking a vacation from his Fox News Channel show amid sponsor defections triggered by sexual harassment allegations....
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Republicans survived an election scare on Tuesday and won a Kansas House seat in the first congressional election since President Donald Trump's victory, but the margin was much narrower than expected in a district that had voted overwhelmingly for Trump in November....
Mr. T's decades of work in the field of pitying fools is unparalleled. He sat down with Conan recently and explained that, "I pity the fool" actually has roots in the Bible.
Rome, Italy, Apr 11, 2017 / 02:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At a prayer vigil with youth this weekend, Pope Francis said the Church needs to listen to the voice of young people, and some of them have responded saying they want to let the world know they are not tired of following Christ.“There are a lot of young people who feel like the Church is difficult, that it is far off, that it’s something for adults and for serious people,” Nicole Espino, 18, told CNA. But the Pope, she said, “helps us to understand that we are important and that we are part of the Church.”“We feel included and like we are part of the Mass. We feel important, and he makes us feel that the youth count and that we belong to the Church,” she said.Espino was one of some 300 Panamanian youths who came to Rome to receive the official World Youth Day cross from Polish young people during Pope Francis’ Palm Sunday Mass April 9.The Mass coincided with the 32nd WYD, themed &l...
Vatican City, Apr 11, 2017 / 03:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis chose French biblical scholar, Anne-Marie Pelletier, to write the meditations for this year's annual Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum.A recipient of the Ratzinger Prize in 2014, as well as a wife and mother, Pelletier’s meditations follow her own scripturally-based Stations of the Cross, or Via Crucis, based on the 14 biblical stations used by St. John Paul II in 1991.Because the Stations of the Cross do not have a “binding form,” Pelletier told Vatican Radio, “I chose those moments that seemed particularly significant.”Her stations are not significantly different from the traditional 14 stations followed by pilgrims walking the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, though the biblical stations don’t include the three falls of Jesus or Veronica wiping the face of Jesus as in the traditional devotion.She also begins with Jesus’ condemnation, rather than his prayer...
London, England, Apr 11, 2017 / 03:44 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Charlie Gard is an 8 month old in the United Kingdom who has been fighting for his life against a rare disease.His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, wanted to keep him on life support and transport him to the United States in order to try an experimental treatment.But on Tuesday, a High Court judge ruled that it was in the child’s best interest for doctors to withdraw life support from Charlie and place him strictly on palliative care, in spite of his parents’ wishes.In his decision, Justice Francis praised Charlie’s parents for “their absolute dedication to their wonderful boy, from the day that he was born,” but ultimately ruled that it was in the child’s best interest to withdraw life support.“Some people may ask why the court has any function in this process; why can the parents not make this decision on their own?” Francis wrote.“The answer is that, although the ...
Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, Apr 11, 2017 / 05:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The regional conference of West African bishops has commended a regional economic union for its efforts to promote peaceful transfers of power, while also noting areas of concern, including religious intolerance and youth unemployment.The bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa met March 28-31 in Ivory Coast to discuss their role in the prevention, mediation, resolution, and transformation of conflicts.The conference includes the bishops of 15 countries, covering the Atlantic coast from Mauritania to Nigeria, as well as Cape Verde, Mali, and Burkina Faso.The bishops sent a message to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) April 4 highlighting ways in which the two organizations can collaborate.They noted positively the “democratic transfer of power in many of our countries and the relative peace we are witnessing in our region.”Noting that economic growth has been a b...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Stephen Brashear, Northwest CatholicBy Anna WeaverSHORELINE, Wash. (CNS) -- Among Mary Larson'sShoreline living-room pictures is a small photo of a man with furrowed eyebrowsand a full white beard. His name is James, but when Larson knew him, he wasbetter known as "The Professor."The two met in 1995 when Larson was avolunteer nurse at Christ House in Washington, D.C., a medical respite centerfor the homeless.James was a patient there, tall, quiet andalways carrying around a large duffel bag stuffed with sheet music. Atlunchtime, he'd sit down at the center's piano and make it come alive withexquisite music, Larson told Northwest Catholic, the news magazine of theArchdiocese of Seattle.The Professor, the story went, had once beenan instructor at a prestigious college before a life event left him homeless."I think his photograph is out with all ofour family photos because he will forever be special in my life," Larson said."It's just a reminder to me that you neverkno...
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- The man who opened fire in a San Bernardino school was a pastor and Navy veteran who accused his newlywed wife of infidelity. When he failed in his efforts to win her back, he went to her classroom and fatally shot her and one of the special needs children she taught, police said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for making an "inappropriate and insensitive" comparison to the Holocaust in earlier comments about Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons - remarks that drew instant rebuke from Jewish groups and critics....
