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IMAGE: CNS photo/Carrie McClish, Catholic VoiceBy Carrie McClishOAKLAND, Calif. (CNS) -- A newshiny truck is bringing food to senior citizens in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood andnearby communities.A year in the making, the Mercy Brown Bag Program hasexpanded, with the truck visiting several locales and offering assistance to seniorsfaced with the high cost of rent and medication.Krista Lucchesi, director of the program that is partof the services of the MercyRetirement and Care Center, couldn't stop smiling as she looked at the vehicleparked behind the residential care facility.Having the truck "now iskind of amazing for all of us," she told The Catholic Voice, newspaper ofthe Oakland Diocese.Staff and volunteers cheered thetruck as it arrived April 2 after a cross-country trip from St. Louis, where itwas built. Nicole St. Lawrence,Mercy Brown Bag's assistant director, brought the truck west on a mission to helpstem the tide of senior hunger in Alameda County.Most recipients enro...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bill O'Reilly says he's sad and surprised that he's off TV but is confident the truth will come out about his exit from Fox News....
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The head of Bethel Heights Vineyard looked out over the 100 acres of vines her crew of 20 Mexicans had just finished pruning, worried about what will happen if the Trump administration presses ahead with its crackdown on immigrants....
HONOLULU (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence ended his trip to Asia on Monday with a thanks to U.S. service members based in Hawaii and promises of robust military spending under President Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the world braces for a possible North Korean nuclear test, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged restraint in a call to President Donald Trump. American's U.N. envoy warned of a strike if Pyongyang attacks a U.S. military base or tests an intercontinental ballistic missile....
VARNER, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas was proceeding with plans to conduct the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the first to move forward, turning back the inmate's claims that his poor health could cause excruciating pain during the lethal injection....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sure enough, the big trans-Pacific trade deal is toast, climate change action is on the ropes and various regulations from the Obama era have been scrapped. It's also a safe bet President Donald Trump hasn't raced a bicycle since Jan. 20, keeping that vow....
Vatican City, Apr 24, 2017 / 10:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Saturday comforted the sister of Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old priest who was killed by ISIS sympathizers while celebrating Mass in Normandy, France last summer.According to the Associated Press, the Pope gripped the hands of Roselyne Hamel and spoke quietly to her during an April 22 liturgy honoring the “new martyrs” of the 20th and 21st centuries in the Basilica of St Bartholomew on Rome’s Tiber Island.Fr. Hamel was killed July 26, 2016 while celebrating Mass after two armed gunmen stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. The assailants entered the church and took the priest and four others hostage. Local law enforcement reported that the priest’s throat was slit in the attack, and that both of the hostage takers were shot dead by police. The attackers were identified as Islamist extremists.Pope Francis issued a statement at the time decrying the “absurd vi...
Vatican City, Apr 24, 2017 / 11:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis will make a pilgrimage June 20 to visit the graves of two 20th century Italian priests in the towns of Bozzolo and Bariana, the Vatican announced Monday.Fr. Lorenzo Milani and Fr. Primo Mazzolari both have reputations for being anti-establishment, though they were obedient to the Church throughout their lives. The Pope's visit to their graves will take place in a “private and unofficial manner,” the April 24 communique stated.The pilgrimage takes place in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Fr. Milani, who lived from 1923-1967. Pope Francis spoke about Fr. Milani in a video message to the participants of a presentation on the priest's complete works in Milan Sunday.“I would love to remember him especially as a believer, in love with the Church even though he was wounded,” the Pope said in the message April 23, “and as a passionate educator with a vision of the...
IMAGE: CNS/ReutersBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When it comes to Marian apparitions,the Catholic Church takes a prudent approach that focuses more on the messagethan the miracle.Supernatural phenomena, like the alleged miracle of the sun in Fatima, Portugal, nearly 100years ago, are not the primary factors indetermining an apparition is worthy of belief. In that particular case, the bishop of Leiria -- whereFatima is located -- deemed the apparitions, but not the miracle of the sun, wereworthy of belief. Hisruling came in 1930, more than a dozen years after Mary's final apparition toLucia dos Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto.More than 1,500 visions of Mary have been reported aroundthe world, but in the past century, fewer than 20 cases have received churchapproval as worthy of belief.The Vatican's "Norms regarding the manner ofproceedings in the discernment of presumed apparitions or revelations" wereapproved by Pope Paul VI in 1978. An official En...
