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Fatima, Portugal, May 11, 2017 / 05:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The niece of Fatima visionary Sr. Lucia dos Santos said her aunt was a normal person like everyone else, but shared some personal advice that her saintly relative used to give: to pray at least something every day. “She always asked me to pray the rosary every day, because there were many who did not pray,” Maria dos Anjos, niece of Fatima visionary Lucia dos Santos, told CNA in an interview.“This was what Our Lady asked: that we pray the rosary every day. Because there were many who didn't pray and because of this many souls went to hell because there was no one to pray for them,” she said.Anjos, who only saw her aunt when they went to visit her in the convent, said the advice Lucia always gave her was to pray daily, and “that I not forget.”She recalled that in a few of the conversations she had with her aunt, she confessed to not finishing the rosary because she was tired, hav...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian quarantine authorities on Thursday urged travelers through Asia to avoid bringing in hitchhiking amphibians after a passenger arrived at an airport with a dead Indonesian toad in his shoe....
DETROIT (AP) -- In just a few years, well-mannered self-driving robotaxis will share the roads with reckless, law-breaking human drivers. The prospect is causing migraines for the people developing the robotaxis....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several Republican senators are questioning the timing of President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. But even as the issue emerges as a potential distraction from the GOP's legislative agenda, most are dismissing Democratic calls for a special counsel, and their hand-wringing looks unlikely to lead to any concrete action....
(Vatican Radio) Mexico's homicide rate, exceeds many nations at war. A report just out show the drug cartels are killing at significantly increased rates in murderous power struggles. Listen to James Blears report: Mexico suffered the second highest number of murders of any country globally last year. It's almost 23,000 homicides, puts it in second place behind Syria, but ahead of Iraq and Afghanistan. The report entitled: "Armed Conflict Survey," is by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A power vacuum in the Sinaloa drug cartel, following the arrest and extradition to the United States of its leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has triggered a deadly supremacy struggle within its higher echelons. While there's been a surge in the ultra violent Jalisco New Generation cartel. This is coupled to the all too common impunity factor, meaning that most crimes go unpunished. And this y...
South Bend, Ind., May 11, 2017 / 12:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the newly announced federal judges selected by President Donald Trump is a Catholic law professor who once co-wrote a law review article on Catholic judges sitting over death penalty cases.“Catholic judges must answer some complex moral and legal questions in deciding whether to sit in death penalty cases,” Professor Amy Coney Barrett of Notre Dame Law School wrote in an article published in the Marquette Law Review in 1998.Barrett was nominated on Monday by President Trump to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, one of nine nominations to federal courts made by the president. Other picks included Justice David Stras of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Justice Joan Larsen of Michigan’s Supreme Court.Barrett clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia and teaches law at the University of Notre Dame. She has twice been honored as “Distinguished Professor of the Year.”In 2015, ahead of the O...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook has been bent on copying Snapchat ever since the social media giant tried unsuccessfully in 2013 to buy what was then an ephemeral photo-messaging app....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Pyongyang will seek the extradition of anyone involved in what it says was a CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jung Un last month with a biochemical poison, a top North Korean foreign ministry official said Thursday....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of "heroic virtues." Miraculous cures....
QARAQOSH, Iraq (AP) -- The young Iraqi woman remembers the night she lost her leg....
