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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump decried the shooting of a top House Republican on Wednesday as a "very, very brutal assault" and called for all Americans to set aside differences and pray for the recovery of the victims....
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others as congressmen and aides dove for cover. The assailant, prepared with "a lot of ammo," fought a gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died....
Kevin Scruggs has interviewed his daughter on her first day of school every year since 1st grade. He posted this the day she graduated high school.
(Vatican Radio) Canada’s Environment Minister Catherine McKenna met with Pope Francis on Wednesday on the sidelines of the General Audience in St Peter’s Square.The Minister has been in Italy to attend the G7 environment summit in Bologna and has participated in meetings at the Vatican to discuss the issues of migration and climate change.Before meeting with the Pope, Minister McKenna spoke to Vatican Radio’s Alessandro Gisotti.Listen: Speaking about the commitment of the Church and the Pope’s leadership on the issue on climate change, Minister McKenna described it as “extraordinary”, adding, “it is really important because we have to be talking to as many people as we can about the challenges that we face… and I think that the Pope has a real opportunity to reach Catholics around the world and beyond to get them really to act and realize that every single thing you do has an impact on our planet…”Asked about the ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed 50 new members to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, two of them from Asia. Five of them are honorary members and the rest are ordinary. Among the ordinary members are Indian Missionary Society (IMS) priest Fr Tomi Thomas, former director-general of the Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), and Shinya Yamanaka, a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher. The Pontifical Academy for Life was established by Pope St. John Paul II for the promotion and defense of human life, especially regarding bioethics in line with Christian morality. All the papal appointments to the academy have expertise in different fields of biomedical sciences and related disciplines.Fr. Tomi Thomas, a member of the Indian Missionary Society (IMS), served as director-general of CHAI from 2011 to 2016. The association, headquartered in Secunderabad, was established on 29th July 1943, by Austr...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his reflections on Christian hope, as he greeted thousands of pilgrims and visitors gathered in St Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience. A second group of sick and disabled pilgrims also took part in the encounter, following the pope live on video screens in the Paul VI audience hall.Please find below the text of Pope Francis’ words to English speaking pilgrims present at the audienceDear Brothers and Sisters: In our catechesis on Christian hope, we have found the source of that hope in God’s unconditional love, revealed for us in the coming of the Son and the gift of the Holy Spirit. None of us can live without love. Happiness comes from the experience of knowing love, freely given and received. So much unhappiness in our world is born of the feeling of not being loved for our own sake. Faith teaches us that God loves us with an infinite love, not for any merit of our own, but o...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his reflections on Christian hope, as he greeted thousands of pilgrims and visitors gathered in St Peter’s Square and in the Paul VI audience hall for his weekly general audience. Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: Pope Francis began his reflection by noting that none of us can live without love. Yet many people today, he went on, are anguished or empty inside because they don’t believe they are beautiful or important enough to be loved by others.Imagine a world where everyone is seeking attention and no-one is prepared to give love in a gratuitous way, he said. Behind so much narcissistic behaviour and incomprehensible actions we discover feelings of solitude and abandonment.When adolescents feel unloved, the pope continued, they may turn to violence, hatred or delinquent behaviour. There is no such thing as bad children or evil adolescents, he said, but there are unhappy people. When we look and smile fre...
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See has called for spiritual care to be provided in tandem with medical treatment to persons living with mental health problems.“Spiritual care is an important component of integral care, that considers the person in his entirety, and that unites the human body, with its psychological, social and spiritual dimension.”Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva, made the appeal to the Human Rights Council in response to a Special Report on Physical and Mental Health.He said the issue of mental health problems has “too long been ignored or, worse yet, been shrouded in fear, stigma, discrimination, and outright rejection that, in the past, led to “warehousing” of such persons in large, isolated, and closed institutions.”Archbishop Jurkovic praised the Special Rapporteur but said the Holy See saw a unity between medical and spiritual care when treating mental illnesses.“While ...
Washington D.C., Jun 14, 2017 / 02:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Online pornography is one of the fastest growing addictions in the United States, on par with cocaine and gambling.Once confined to the pages of a smuggled Playboy magazine, pornography can now be in the hands of anyone with a smartphone, and is more prolific and anonymous than ever.PornHub, one of the world’s largest sites with porn video streaming, reports that it averages 75 million viewers per day, or about 2.4 million visitors per hour. In 2015 alone, the number of hours streamed from the site was double the amount of time human beings have populated the Earth, according to TIME Magazine.And while pornography used to be a simpler problem for priests to address in the confessional – consecrate yourself to Mary, go to weekly adoration – the growing level of addiction makes it a much more complex problem for the Church to address.That’s why Fr. Sean Kilcawley, the program directory and theological a...
