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CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The company building a $3.8 billion oil pipeline sought a federal judge's permission Tuesday to circumvent President Barack Obama's administration and move ahead with a disputed section of the project in North Dakota, as opponents held protests across the country urging it to be rejected....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A gunman lay in wait outside Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport on Tuesday before shooting and killing a Southwest Airlines employee in a premeditated attack that occurred while hundreds of people waited for flights nearby, police said....
DENVER (AP) -- Denver has approved a first-in-the-nation law allowing people to use marijuana at bars, restaurants and other public spaces such as art galleries or yoga studios....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For nearly the entire week since he became president-elect, Donald Trump has been holed up in his gilded New York skyscraper. A steady stream of visitors has come to him, flooding through metal detectors and getting whisked up to Trump's offices and penthouse residence....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Donald Trump's transition to the presidency (all times EST):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his New York skyscraper Tuesday night for the first time in days, moving about the nation's largest city without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts....
Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2016 / 02:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the recent presidential election, the new president of the U.S. Bishops is adamant about standing with all vulnerable persons, including the unborn and immigrants.“I would want our work as shepherds and leaders to bring Catholics together to recognize the beauty of the human person, even if someone disagrees with you,” Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Houston-Galveston, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said on Tuesday.“From our point of view, we certainly respect the government,” he noted of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. However, “we also have a shepherd's heart,” he added, insisting that the Church will continue to serve the hungry and thirsty and welcome the stranger.Cardinal DiNardo spoke at a press conference at the fall general assembly of the U.S. bishops in Baltimore, Md. As the vice president of the bishops conference, ...
Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2016 / 03:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Race relations, racism, and violence were on the mind of the United States bishops during their fall general assembly in Baltimore.“The Church has a tremendous opportunity, and an equally tremendous responsibility, to bring people together in prayer and dialogue to begin anew the vital work of fostering healing and lasting peace,” Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta told the gathering Nov. 14.The archbishop heads a task force established by the nation's bishops to promote peace following racial tensions and violence. It is trying to address “pervasive challenges” associated with race relations in the country, said the archbishop.Archbishop Gregory conveyed the recommendations of the task force and its consultants to the bishops’ general assembly on Monday afternoon.“Many stressed that the Church must find its bold prophetic voice at this time,” he said. “Participants emphas...
Rome, Italy, Nov 15, 2016 / 05:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religious freedom is under threat worldwide from phenomena like Islamic “hyper-extremism,” but there are also other dangers, a new report from Aid to the Church in Need says.“The importance of religious freedom is for me the difference between life and death,” Father Jacques Mourad said in the report’s foreword.The Christian monk was held by the Islamic State group in Syria for five months before his escape in October 2015.“Our world teeters on the brink of complete catastrophe as extremism threatens to wipe out all traces of diversity in society,” Fr. Mourad said. “But if religion teaches us anything it is the value of the human person, the need to respect each other as a gift from God.”Aid to the Church in Need is an international Catholic pastoral charity. Every two years it publishes a report that analyzes the state of religious freedom in 196 countries.The latest report,...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even though Cardinal-designateKevin J. Farrell had asked his secretary to hold all phone calls so he couldfinish his work, one caller insisted on getting through."She came in and said that the pope was on thetelephone, and I kind of laughed and said, 'Sure, the pope's on thetelephone,'" he said, adding that the secretary continued to insist itreally was the Holy Father because she knew his voice from television."And it was the pope," he told Catholic NewsService Nov. 15.Pope Francis made that surprise call in May to tell the then-bishop of Dallas he wasthe papal pick to lead a new super-dicastery bringing laity, family and lifetogether under one roof."Well, I nearly had to call 911 because I did notexpect that and I mustered my energy, my mind, to tell him a couple of reasonswhy I did not think I was the person for that job," he said.The then-bishop said he breathed a sigh of relief whenthe pope said to just think ab...
