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Vatican City, Aug 8, 2017 / 11:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A congratulatory letter sent from Pope Francis to a same-sex couple regarding the baptism of their children was a standard form letter sent to all who write to the Pope, a Vatican source has confirmed.The letter was not an endorsement of gay unions, the source told CNA, and the Pope may not have known that the letter was going to a gay couple, since it was addressed to a single individual.Tony Reis, an LGBT activist, and his partner David Harrad published on Facebook in April that they sent a letter to the Pope, telling him about the baptism of their three adopted children in a church in Curitiba, Brazil.The couple told AFP that they had received a congratulatory letter in return, signed by the Vatican Secretariat of State, Monsignor Paolo Borgi.The letter, translated from Portuguese, said that the Holy Father “looks with appreciation” at the letter on the baptism of the children, and “expressed his feelings of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chris SheridanBy Armando MachadoNEW YORK (CNS) -- At theBasilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Lower Manhattan, Polina Maller, 11,took a few moments from her violin lesson to talk about her appreciation formusic."It's fun, and I like it.Music makes me feel like I'm free inside; it makes me feel like I could createthings, and then I feel good about myself," Polina, a classical musicaficionado, said July 26 in an interview with Catholic New York, thearchdiocesan newspaper.She was midway into aweek of a summer music camp on the cathedral grounds.Eleven children took partin the first-time program, "Pipes, Pedals & Peals," sponsored bythe Friends of the Henry Erben Organ. The group is a charitable organizationdevoted to the conservation and restoration of the 1868 Henry Erben Organinside St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.The five-day camp, whichoperated three hours each morning, was open to children ages 7 to 12.Organizers expect to make it an annual summer program.The...
U.S. officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screening for truck drivers and train engineers, a decision that safety experts say puts millions of lives at risk....
DALLAS (AP) -- Following widespread outrage over a passenger who was violently dragged off an overbooked plane, U.S. airlines are bumping customers at the lowest rate in at least two decades....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A convicted felon who graduated from Yale Law School and won acclaim as a poet is being asked by a Connecticut committee to prove his "good moral character" before he is allowed to practice law....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs (all times local):...
GATUNDU, Kenya (AP) -- Stooped but determined, a 102-year-old woman believed to be one of Kenya's oldest citizens cast her ballot in national elections on Tuesday....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote Tuesday in the seventh and most serious attempt to unseat him after months of growing anger in South Africa over alleged corruption and a sinking economy. But his African National Congress party, which has ruled since the end of apartheid, continued to fracture....
DENVER (AP) -- An attorney for Taylor Swift told jurors Tuesday that his superstar client is "absolutely certain" she was sexually assaulted and will prove it in court during the civil trial of dueling lawsuits filed by Swift and a former radio host....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Directly contradicting President Donald Trump, a draft report produced by 13 federal agencies concludes that the United States is already feeling the negative impacts of climate change, with a stark increase in the frequency of heat waves, heavy rains and other extreme weather over the last four decades....
