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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's government approved the first West Bank settlement in two decades Thursday, creating the first serious test for U.S. President Donald Trump's new foray into Middle East peacemaking....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump trained his fire on members of his own party Thursday, declaring in the aftermath of the Republican's failed health care push that the conservative Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire GOP agenda. He vowed to "fight them" in 2018 if they don't get behind him....
ATLANTA (AP) -- A large fire has caused an overpass on Interstate 85 to collapse in Atlanta....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina rolled back its "bathroom bill" Thursday in a bid to end the yearlong backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects, conventions and basketball tournaments....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House refused to say on Thursday whether it secretly fed intelligence reports to a top Republican investigating possible coordination between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. Fending off growing criticism, the administration invited lawmakers from both parties to view classified material it said relates to surveillance of the president's associates....
Vatican City, Mar 30, 2017 / 05:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis issued a message ahead of the 2018 World Meeting of Families (WMOF), saying couples and families should root their relationships in the love of God, which then propels them to joyfully share it with others.“I wish to underline how important it is for families to ask themselves often if they live based on love, for love and in love,” the Pope said in his message.In practice, “this means giving oneself, forgiving, not losing patience, anticipating the other, respecting,” as well as living and repeating daily the phrases “please,” “thank you” and “I’m sorry.”Because of the daily experience we have of weakness and fragility, both families and pastors need a “renewed humility” that will allow them to learn and educate, to help, accompany, discern and educate people from all backgrounds and situations.“I dream of an outbound Church, not a...
Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Mar 30, 2017 / 01:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Spanish bishop last week published criteria for the accompaniment of the divorced-and-remarried, inviting them to a “catechumenal itinerary” by which they come to live according to Christ's words.“The Church has only one goal to propose to man: the way of life that Jesus taught us and to which he introduces us in the sacraments,” Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Pla of Alcalá de Henares wrote March 20 in Accompanying the baptized who have divorced and live in another union, a set of provisions for his diocese.The bishop began by noting the interest in and debate over pastoral care for the divorced-and-remarried which has increased since the publication of Pope Francis' 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia.He first recommended the indications found in a vademecum produced by Fr. José Granados, Dr. Stephan Kampowski, and Fr. Juan José Pérez-Soba, of the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy WASHINGTON(CNS) -- President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a review of the Clean Power Plan jeopardizesenvironmental protections and moves the country away from a national carbonstandard to help meet domestic and international goals to ease greenhouse gasemissions, said the chairman of a U.S. bishops' committee.Theexecutive order, signed March 28 at the Environmental Protection Agency, failsto offer a "sufficient plan for ensuring proper care for people andcreation," Bishop FrankJ. Dewane of Venice Florida, chairman of the bishop's Committee on DomesticJustice and Human Development, said in a statement March 29.Trump,flanked by coal miners, said during the signing ceremony that his goal was to drive energyindependence, bring back coal-mining and manufacturing jobs, and reduce the costof electricity.Explainingthat the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined Pope Francis insupporting environmental stewardship and has long called fo...
IMAGE: CNS/Bob RollerBy VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican hopes that U.S. bishopsand others will continue to raise their voices in defense of the obligation tofight climate change and, in time, can persuade U.S. President Donald Trump tochange his position, a top Vatican official said.Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery forPromoting Integral Human Development, told a group of reporters March 30 thatthere is concern at the Vatican over Trump's policies, including on theenvironment.Trump's position on immigration and his efforts to roll backU.S. commitments on environmental regulations are "a challenge for us,"said the cardinal, whose office works on both questions and is charged withassisting bishops around the world as they promote Catholic social teaching. Still, he said, "we are full of hope that things canchange."The first sign of hope, he said, is the growing number of"dissenting voices," who are calling attention to the scientificfacts surrounding climate change an...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts carried out an impromptu patch job outside the International Space Station on Thursday, after losing a vital piece of cloth shielding when it floated away....
