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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The turbulent national debate over race, gender and free speech consumed the normally staid Senate on Wednesday after the GOP majority voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, abruptly elevating her celebrity status at a moment when liberals are hungry for a leader to take on Donald Trump....
Vatican Radio) Palestinian leaders have reacted angrily to an Israeli law which would retroactively legalise some 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.The law, passed on Monday, is backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition but has raised tensions within the government and drawn international criticism. Israel's attorney-general has said it is unconstitutional and that he will not defend it at the Supreme Court.In Washington a White House official said U.S. President Donald Trump "will withhold comment on the legislation until the relevant court ruling." Last week the Trump administration said the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing ones “may not be helpful” in achieving peace.Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, former head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and former Vatican envoy to the Arab League, currently lives in Jerusalem. He talk...
Sir 15: 15-20, I Cor 2: 6-10, Mt 5: 17-37 The story is told that when the painter Leonardo Da Vinci was painting The Last Supper, he had an intense and bitter argument with a fellow painter. Da Vinci began to think of a way to get back at this guy. He came up with a devious plan. He decided to paint the face of his enemy as the face of Judas Iscariot so it would be captured for all time, and that is exactly what he did. When people came to look at his work, while it was still in progress, they immediately knew who "Judas" was. Da Vinci got great joy out of portraying this man as Judas Iscariot. But as he continued his work on the painting of Jesus and his disciples, he finally came to the face he had saved for the very end-the face of Jesus. But he drew a mental blank. He had what writers call "writer's block." He could not paint a thing. Finally, God convicted him and showed him the trouble was he had painted the face of his enemy as the face of Judas...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Marking the feast of St. JosephineBakhita, a former slave, Pope Francis urged Christians to help victims of humantrafficking and migrants, especially the Rohingya people being chased fromMyanmar.For the Catholic Church, St. Bakhita's feast day, Feb. 8, is aday of prayer for victims of trafficking.Pope Francis asked government officials around the world to"decisively combat this plague" of human trafficking, payingparticular attention to trafficking in children. "Every effort must bemade to eradicate this shameful and intolerable crime."Describing St. Bakhita as a "young woman who wasenslaved in Africa, exploited, humiliated," Pope Francis said she nevergave up hope and, finally, she was able to migrate to Europe.Holding up a booklet with a photograph of the Sudanesesaint, who died in Italy in 1947, the pope continued telling her story. InEurope, he said, "she heard the call of the Lord and became a nun,"joining the Canossian Daughters of Charity...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Shawn Blazsek would go days without sleeping and was forgetting how to tie his shoes. He knew a string of concussions from high school football and boxing was catching up with him. Still, at age 33, he was stunned when told he had Alzheimer's disease....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline called for protests around the world Wednesday as the Army prepared to greenlight the final stage of the $3.8 billion project's construction....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- In a sign of improving ties, Turkish officials said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and responded "positively" on two key Turkish demands that had soured Ankara's relations with the Obama administration....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Brittany Ross was savoring the smell of her aunt's simmering white beans when a tornado lifted their trailer into the air and slammed it back down....
CAMP TAJI, Iraq (AP) -- Forces fighting the Islamic State group should be able to retake the IS-held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria within the next six months, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was declared Somalia's new president Wednesday, immediately taking the oath of office as the long-chaotic country moved toward its first fully functioning central government in a quarter-century....
