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BERLIN (AP) -- A European Union official threatened Thursday to sanction Panama and other nations if they don't cooperate fully to fight money laundering and tax evasion, after a leak of data showed the small country remains a key destination for people who want to hide money....
Washington D.C., Apr 5, 2016 / 05:03 pm (CNA).- The Catholic University of America’s new dean of the School of Business and Economics says that he hopes to integrate the Church’s “rich set of social doctrine” into sound business principles, especially when people have become less trusting of businesses.“I look forward to working with our faculty and students to translate these principles into concrete actions that improve business operations without sacrificing financial return,” Bill Bowman said in an April 5 statement.“At a time when so many are losing faith with business, The Catholic University of America can help them gain confidence that there is a better way to operate.”President John Garvey said that Bowman “has achieved great success while living out his faith in the business world.”“We look forward to working with him as he brings his talents, experience, and values into his new role as dean of the School of...
Washington D.C., Apr 5, 2016 / 05:03 pm (CNA).- The Catholic University of America’s new dean of the School of Business and Economics says that he hopes to integrate the Church’s “rich set of social doctrine” into sound business principles, especially when people have become less trusting of businesses.
“I look forward to working with our faculty and students to translate these principles into concrete actions that improve business operations without sacrificing financial return,” Bill Bowman said in an April 5 statement.
“At a time when so many are losing faith with business, The Catholic University of America can help them gain confidence that there is a better way to operate.”
President John Garvey said that Bowman “has achieved great success while living out his faith in the business world.”
“We look forward to working with him as he brings his talents, experience, and values into his new role as dean of the School of Business and Economics,” Garvey added.
The father of nine, with wife Leigh Bowman, and seasoned entrepreneur brings over 25 years of experience to his new post.
Most recently, Bowman served as President and CEO of Core Values Group in Boston, a consulting firm that helps businesses nurture virtues that will help them be successful. Before that, he was President and CEO of the country’s leading provider of supplemental child care services to corporations, Bright Horizons (then called ChildrenFirst Inc.).
He served as past chairman of the Software Publishers Association, was a former director of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, and co-founded the Massachusetts Software Council. He worked for the U.S. Public Health Service and the Boston Consulting Group.
His experience includes work in the educational field as well.
In 1982, he helped found one of the nation's first educational software companies, Spinnaker Software Corp., and then went on to work for Logal Software, Inc. which he helped take public in 1996.
He helped found an independent day school for girls, the Montrose School, where he served as chairman and remains a trustee. He has also served as the governor-appointed trustee of University of Massachusetts’ five campuses.
Bowman begins his new position at the start of the fall semester on Aug. 20, but will be on campus during the summer.
Vatican City, Apr 7, 2016 / 01:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Thursday praised the consistency and courage of the modern day martyrs who continue to “carry the Church forward” even as they face death for their witness to the Risen Christ.“These are the lifeblood of the Church; these are the ones that carry the Church forward, the witnesses, who attest that Jesus is Risen, that Jesus is alive, and they bear witness through the consistency of their life, with the Holy Spirit they have received as a gift,” Pope Francis said during his April 7 homily, according to Vatican Radio.He said that the Church needs their witness now, just as much as at the beginning of Christianity when “Peter the coward” became “courageous” after Christ’s death and resurrection, as today’s readings reflected.In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we learn that Peter, the very apostle who denied Christ hours before his crucifixion, has ...
Vatican City, Apr 7, 2016 / 01:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Thursday praised the consistency and courage of the modern day martyrs who continue to “carry the Church forward” even as they face death for their witness to the Risen Christ.
“These are the lifeblood of the Church; these are the ones that carry the Church forward, the witnesses, who attest that Jesus is Risen, that Jesus is alive, and they bear witness through the consistency of their life, with the Holy Spirit they have received as a gift,” Pope Francis said during his April 7 homily, according to Vatican Radio.
He said that the Church needs their witness now, just as much as at the beginning of Christianity when “Peter the coward” became “courageous” after Christ’s death and resurrection, as today’s readings reflected.
In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we learn that Peter, the very apostle who denied Christ hours before his crucifixion, has become emboldened by our Lord’s resurrection and preaches the Gospel to the leaders of the Sanhedrin even though they had forbidden it, the Holy Father said.
Being a Christian means being consistent “in what he says, in what he does, and what he receives,” even if witnessing to the Gospel means one “puts his life on the line” by doing so.
Today, we still see so many people living out their faith in Jesus in hostile environments, he said, but their witness is what carries the Church forward.
“It is the witness of our martyrs of today – so many! – chased out of their homeland, driven away, having their throats cut, persecuted: they have the courage to confess Jesus even to the point of death.”
In times of trouble people will often say that their country “needs heroes” which is an admirable thing to do, he said.
But in the case of the Church, he continued, we need “witnesses” and “martyrs.” They are “the saints of everyday, of ordinary life” which is lived with consistency and bears Christian witness “to the end, even to death.”
“It is the witness of those Christians who live their life seriously, and who say: ‘I can’t do this; I can’t do evil to another; I cannot cheat; I cannot lead life halfway, I have to give my witness,’” Pope Francis said.
“And this witness consists in saying what has been seen and heard in faith, namely, the Risen Jesus, with the Holy Spirit received as a gift.”
CHICAGO (AP) -- At least four people have made "credible allegations of sexual abuse" against former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday, citing unidentified law enforcement sources....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The stalled nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is giving President Barack Obama a chance to do what he says he's missed: go back to school....
BOSTON (AP) -- Dozens of text messages that a teenage girl sent to her boyfriend that encouraged him to kill himself were just words and do not constitute a crime, her lawyer told the state's highest court Thursday....
ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any links to offshore accounts and described the Panama Papers document leaks scandal as part of a U.S.-led plot to weaken Russia....
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Federal investigators found significant cybersecurity weaknesses in the health insurance websites of California, Kentucky and Vermont that could enable hackers to get their hands on sensitive personal information about hundreds of thousands of people, The Associated Press has learned. And some of those flaws have yet to be fixed....
HIT, Iraq (AP) -- As they advanced on the Islamic State-held town of Hit, Iraqi counterterrorism troops had to decide how to press the attack. If they stormed in with armor and airstrikes, they risked heavy casualties and might allow the militants to flee....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries to overcome recent campaign setbacks....
