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PHOENIX (AP) -- The criminal conviction of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio marks the ultimate repudiation of his tactics, but the fallout over his legacy is still being felt across Phoenix....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A police officer in a deadly struggle with an armed man frantically screamed into his radio for help, telling dispatchers he'd been struck by gunfire and was bleeding. The shooting left the suspect dead and sent the officer who radioed for help and his partner to a hospital where they were recovering Tuesday from gunshot wounds....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans showed signs Tuesday of reaching out to Democrats for a joint if modest effort to buttress health insurance markets, four days after the GOP effort to unilaterally uproot and reshape the Obama health care law crumpled in the Senate....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russian meddling in last year's presidential election....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top American diplomat put the onus on Russia Tuesday to take steps to repair flagging relations with the United States, even as he conceded that congressional sanctions would pose a new obstacle. Holding out hope for warmer ties, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he'd meet with his Russian counterpart within days....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There wasn't a dramatic public break or an exact moment it happened. But step by step, Senate Republicans are turning their backs on President Donald Trump....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Teams of heavily armed security agents seized two of Venezuela's top opposition leaders from their homes in the middle of the night Tuesday, dragging one into the street in his pajamas as President Nicolas Maduro's government defied U.S. sanctions and international condemnation of a plan to assume nearly unlimited powers....
Vatican City, Aug 1, 2017 / 10:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Rome and other parts of the world gear up for their August holidays, the Vatican has urged tourists to remember the human person and the environment in their travels, treating people and things with respect.“Holiday time cannot be a pretext either for irresponsibility or for exploitation: in fact, it is a noble time in which everyone can add value to one’s own life and that of others,” Cardinal Peter Turkson wrote Aug. 1.The Catholic Church supports the idea of “sustainable tourism” promoted by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).“This means that it must be responsible, and not destructive or detrimental to the environment nor to the socio-cultural context of the locality.”“Moreover, it must be particularly respectful of the population and their heritage, with a view to safeguarding personal dignity and labor rights, especially those of the most disadvantaged a...
Cardiff, Wales, Aug 1, 2017 / 12:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Seven seminarians walk into a bar … and almost get kicked out.That’s what happened to a group of seminarians in Cardiff over the weekend when they went to The City Arms pub to celebrate the July 29 ordination of Father Peter McClaren.Thinking they were a rowdy stag party in fancy dress, pub management initially asked the men to leave.Realizing their error, they invited the men to stay and bought them a round of drinks."The staff thought they were a stag. We do have quite a few issues on the weekends with parties wearing fancy dress so it is our policy to turn them away," said assistant manager Matt Morgan, according to the BBC. The actual Reverend Robert James drinking @brainsbrewery @TheRevTweets beer.???????????? pic.twitter.com/H43HWqGIKK— The City Arms (@cityarmscardiff) July 29, 2017 He added that the seminarians were "all great sports and saw the funny side of the situation.&rd...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy of the Little Brothers of JesusBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis chose one of theLittle Brothers of Jesus to be rector of the Diocese of Rome's main seminary,members of the order founded by Blessed Charles de Foucauld were stunned."The explicit request of Pope Francis" that Father Gabriele Faraghini,51, be released for service as the seminary rector "was, for our littlefraternity, a bolt out of the blue, a novelty that literally flooredeveryone," said a note posted on the brothers' website. But the order'sgeneral chapter confirmed the nomination, which was announced July 31.Most of the brothers live in small communities with a homelife revolving around eucharistic adoration and prayer. Many of them, thepriests included, are manual laborers, who strive simply to be a presence offriendship and solidarity with their co-workers and neighbors. Service indiocesan institutions and offices is not a normal part of their ministry,although it is ...
