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PARIS (AP) -- The impossible is now possible, French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said in celebration the morning after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency. But the Trump effect may not bring Le Pen the boost she had once expected....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Neil Gorsuch dived into the public side of his new job Monday, piping up early and often as he took his seat on the Supreme Court bench for the first time to hear arguments....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A doctor who saw Prince in the days before he died had prescribed the opioid painkiller oxycodone under the name of Prince's friend to protect the musician's privacy, according to court documents unsealed Monday that revealed nothing about how the pop superstar got the fentanyl that actually killed him....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas moved forward with its attempt to begin a series of double executions Monday night despite rulings in state and federal courts that the inmates were entitled to additional appeals....
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) -- A day after a failed North Korean missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump had a message Monday for the North's ruler: 'Gotta behave." At the same time, Vice President Mike Pence warned at the Korean Demilitarized Zone that America's "era of strategic patience is over."...
Fr. Cedric Prakash, an Indian Jesuit priest and committed human rights activist, is the Regional Advocacy & Communications Officer of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) for the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Region, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Belonging to the Gujarat Jesuit Province of India, Fr. Cedric founded "Prashant” in 2001, a Jesuit Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace in Ahmedabad. He has been at the forefront on issues related to human rights, justice and peace and other advocacy matters for which he has been honoured in India and abroad. In 2015 he was invited by JRS to lend his skills and services to the cause of the thousands of refugees, displaced and those affected by war and violence in the Middle East - an invitation he accepted after much discernment and moved to Beirut in Jan 2016. Often on the move, he visits refugee camps and centres, in the effort of the JRS to bring solace, h...
Vatican City, Apr 16, 2017 / 03:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a lengthy interview with EWTN's German television branch, Benedict XVI's closest aide describes how the retired pontiff is doing as he turns the milestone age of 90, giving a rare look into what life is like for the Pope Emeritus.Archbishop Gänswein has been Benedict's personal secretary since 2003, while the latter was still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has remained close at Benedict's side throughout his papacy, resignation and his life of retirement.In anticipation of Benedict XVI's 90th birthday, which this year falls on Easter Sunday, April 16, Gänswein gave a lengthy interview to EWTN.TV in German, sharing insights into how the Pope Emeritus plans to celebrate his birthday and highlights and personal memories of his pontificate.Among other things, the archbishop recalls how Benedict handled his election, the frequently negative media-firestorm that envelope...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Like St. Francis of Assisi did, theCatholic Church and individual Christians must follow Christ by imitating hiswillingness to give up everything for the sake of others, Pope Francis said."Unfortunately, 2,000 years after the proclamation ofthe Gospel and eight centuries after the witness of Francis, we face aphenomenon of global inequity and an economy that kills," the pope said inan April 16 letter to the archbishop of Assisi, Italy.The pope's letter offered his blessings and support for thedecision of the Diocese of Assisi to establish a shrine in memory of the"divestiture" of St. Francis.The shrine, which will be inaugurated May 20, will be housedin the town's Church of St. Mary Major, but also will include public access tothe "Sala della Spogliazione," literally the Room of the Divesting.The room in the bishop's residence is where a young St. Francis -- in thepresence of his father and of the bishop -- stripped naked and renounced allwealt...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Latin America's oldest colonial city is aiming for a rebound, pouring tens of millions of dollars into repairing streets, cleaning up trash, installing streetlights and renovating centuries-old buildings in hopes of getting more of the Dominican Republic's 5 million tourists a year to spend less time at the beach and more in the capital's long-neglected historic center....
BOSTON (AP) -- The Latest on the 121st running of the Boston Marathon (all times local):...
