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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals Sunday, adding like-minded prelates from dioceses big and small to the club who will elect the next pope. Three were Americans in a clear signal to the conservative U.S. church hierarchy that Francis wants moderate pastors at the helm of the U.S. church....
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- In the minutes before three Palm Springs officers were shot, two fatally, the suspected gunman's father told a neighbor his son was armed, "acting crazy" and wanted to shoot police....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Samsung Electronics seemed to have its smartphone troubles under control - until authorities had to evacuate a Southwest Airlines flight in Kentucky last week for an incident that involved a replacement phone....
JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) -- Survivors of Hurricane Matthew put on their Sunday finest and picked their way through downed power lines to sing praise and pray in ruined churches, while desperation grew in other parts of devastated Haiti and international rescue efforts began ramping up....
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- When Hurricane Matthew dumped torrential rains on North Carolina, thousands of people found themselves suddenly trapped in homes and cars. Rescuers in Coast Guard helicopters plucked some of them from rooftops and used military vehicles to reach others, including a woman who held on to a tree for three hours after her car was overrun by flood waters....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is trying to revive old problems in Hillary Clinton's marriage and claims that she helped Bill Clinton discredit his accusers. As Trump's campaign staggers under the revelation of his own predatory behavior toward women, he's also going further: He's accused the former president of "rape," Hillary Clinton of being an "enabler" and threatened to shift those issues from his Twitter feed to the presidential debate s...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday to mark the end of the Marian Jubilee, the latest event in the ongoing Holy Year of Mercy.In his homily, the Pope reflected on the theme of thanksgiving for the gifts which God has given us.Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: Pope Francis centered his homily on the Gospel reading from Luke, in which Jesus heals ten lepers, but only one of them returns to thank him.The nine men Jesus healed, the Pope said, “forgot the Giver, the Father, who cured them through Jesus, his Son made man.”Meanwhile, the man who returned to thank the Lord was a Samaritan, and therefore a foreigner.“This man was not content with being healed by his faith,” the Pope said, “but brought that healing to completion by returning to express his gratitude for the gift received.” “He recognized in Jesus the true Priest, who raised him up and saved him, who can now set him on his way and accept him as one of hi...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday to mark the end of the Marian Jubilee, the latest event in the ongoing Holy Year of Mercy.
In his homily, the Pope reflected on the theme of thanksgiving for the gifts which God has given us.
Listen to Ann Schneible’s report:
Pope Francis centered his homily on the Gospel reading from Luke, in which Jesus heals ten lepers, but only one of them returns to thank him.
The nine men Jesus healed, the Pope said, “forgot the Giver, the Father, who cured them through Jesus, his Son made man.”
Meanwhile, the man who returned to thank the Lord was a Samaritan, and therefore a foreigner.
“This man was not content with being healed by his faith,” the Pope said, “but brought that healing to completion by returning to express his gratitude for the gift received.”
“He recognized in Jesus the true Priest, who raised him up and saved him, who can now set him on his way and accept him as one of his disciples.”
The Holy Father challenged the faithful by asking if we are capable of saying “Thank you,” to our families, our communities, or in the Church.
Likewise with God, it is easy to ask him for something, but not to express gratitude, he said.
Pope Francis cited the Marian jubilee as an opportunity to look to Mary as a model for giving thanks to God for things received.
The ability to give thanks also requires humility, the Pope said.
“The heart of Mary,” he said, “more than any other, is a humble heart, capable of accepting God’s gifts.”
The Holy Father invited us to ask ourselves if we are “prepared to accept God’s gifts,” or if we “prefer instead to shut ourselves up within our forms of material security, intellectual security, the security of our plans.”
Pope Francis observed how both Naaman from the day’s first reading and the Samaritans from the Gospel were foreigners.
He added how foreigners, including people of other religions, often “give us an example of values that we sometimes forget or set aside!”
Mary, along with Joseph her spouse, had also experienced being a foreigner during their time in Egypt, the Holy Father said.
He concluded: “Let us cling to this simple faith of the Holy Mother of God; let us ask her that we may always come back to Jesus and express our thanks for the many benefits we have received from his mercy.”
CAMP SWIFT, Iraq (AP) -- Thirteen years ago, Chase Snow's father was among the American troops who moved into the Iraqi city of Mosul during the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Now Snow, a U.S. Army specialist, is deployed in Iraq to help in the fight to retake the city from the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Qymana Botts saw white colleagues with the same amount of experience getting promoted to cashier ahead of her at the Indiana discount store where she worked. When she asked her supervisors why, they told her she didn't project the image that they wanted from their cashiers: straight hair - not her natural Afro - and more makeup....
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Two Palm Springs police officers trying to resolve a family dispute were killed when a man they had been speaking with suddenly pulled out a gun and opened fire on them, the city's police chief said....
