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London, England, Jul 14, 2017 / 09:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The American doctor whose experimental treatment has been sought by the parents of Charlie Gard will travel to London on Monday, after a judge ruled that he could examine the baby and confer with the UK doctors.On Friday, the specialist in mitochondrial diseases and genetic myopathies agreed to travel to examine Charlie in-person at the Great Ormand Street Hospital in London.The neurologist testified via video July 13 that he believes the 11-month-old has at least a 10 percent chance of improving under his treatment, and possibly as high as a 56 percent chance.The doctor, Michio Hirano, whose name was revealed after a court order was lifted Friday, is a professor of neurology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He is the doctor overseeing the therapy trial Charlie's parents had sought to join before being denied by the hospital and courts.Friday’s development comes one week after Great Ormond Str...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Liam Burke courtesy PrBy Sarah Mac DonaldLIMERICK, Ireland (CNS) -- TheCatholic Church is doing whatever it can to strengthen the family, includingfamilies often considered nontraditional, said Cardinal Christoph Schonborn ofVienna, the theologian who reviewed Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on thefamily."Favoring the family doesnot mean disfavoring other forms of life -- even those living in a same-sexpartnership need their families," the cardinal said during a visit toIreland, which next year hosts the World Meeting of Families.The family is "the survivalnetwork of the future" and "will remain forever the basis of everysociety," Cardinal Schonborn told journalists July 13 ahead of addressinga conference, "Let's Talk Family: Let's Be Family."The cardinal told the conferenceat Mary Immaculate College that people should not be discouraged about thefuture of the family, despite the many social and economic threats and policiesthat disregard it. "Today, everybody c...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From both sides of the Atlantic, President Donald Trump and other administration officials lobbied Republicans Friday to support the Senate GOP's reworked health care bill, with the president saying wavering senators "must come through" to keep the measure from collapsing....
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was back at a Habitat for Humanity worksite Friday, a day after he was hospitalized for dehydration while working with the organization to build homes for needy families in Canada....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three Palestinian assailants opened fire on Israeli police from inside a major Jerusalem holy site on Friday, gravely wounding two officers before being shot dead, police said. The officers later died....
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- An admitted drug dealer with a history of mental illness said he killed four young men after he felt cheated or threatened during three transactions and then burned their bodies at his family's farm, a person with firsthand knowledge of his confession said....
MOSCOW (AP) -- A billionaire real estate mogul, his pop singer son and a music promoter. A property lawyer and Russia's prosecutor general....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Russian-American lobbyist says he attended a June 2016 meeting with President Donald Trump's son, marking another shift in the account of a discussion that was billed as part of a Russian government effort to help the Republican's White House campaign....
The closing events of the 125th anniversary of Catholic evangelization in Zambia are taking place on Friday and Saturday this week in Lusaka. The highlight of the anniversay will be the Holy Mass on Saturday to be presided over by Archbishop Teresphore Mpundu, President of Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) at the main arena of the Lusaka Show Grounds. Delegates from the country’s 10 dioceses are taking part in the closing events of the anniversary celebrations which began on 6 August last year under the theme: “The Catholic Church in Zambia, 125 years of God’s Love and Mercy, 1891 – 2016”.Fr. CLIFFORD MULASIKWANDA sent us this report:The Zambia Church Celebrates 125 Years of Catholic FaithLusaka, 12 July 2017The Catholic Church in Zambia will hold a two-day closing event to celebrate the 125 years of Catholic Faith in Zambia. The event will take place at Lusaka, Zambia, at the Lusaka Show Grounds Main arena from 14th to 15th Jul...
Turin, Italy, Jul 14, 2017 / 02:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- New research indicates that the Shroud of Turin shows signs of blood from a torture victim, and undermines arguments that the reputed burial shroud of Jesus Christ was painted.Very small particles attached to the linen fibers of the shroud “have recorded a scenario of great suffering, whose victim was wrapped up in the funeral cloth,” said Elvio Carlino, a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography.These particles, called “nanoparticles,” had a “peculiar structure, size and distribution,” said University of Padua professor Giulio Fanti.And the nanoparticles are not typical of the blood of a healthy person. Rather, they show high levels of substances called creatinine and ferritin, found in patients who suffer forceful multiple traumas like torture.“Hence, the presence of these biological nanoparticles found during our experiments point to a violent death for the man wrapped in the T...
