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IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- When St.Patrick's Day falls on a Friday, as it does about every seven years, the Lentenrule requiring Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays collides with the long-heldtradition of eating corned beef and cabbage.The two occasions meet this year. March 17 marks the celebration of St. Patrick -- known as the Apostle ofIreland for his years of missionary work there -- and it also is a celebrationof all things Irish and even green. This March 17, since it falls on a Fridayin Lenten, also is a time of penitence. The timing has not gone unnoticed by some U.S. bishops.Before Lent even started, many of them issued dispensations for Catholics intheir dioceses allowing them to eat meat on St. Patrick's Day. The dispensation does not take Catholics totally offthe hook. Many bishops advised Catholics over age 14, who are requiredto abstain from meat on Friday, to do an extra act of charity or penance inexchange for ea...
DETROIT (AP) -- Plaintiffs in dozens of lawsuits against air bag maker Takata and five automakers allege the car companies knew that Takata's products were dangerous yet continued to use them for years in order to save money....
Jewish centers and schools across the nation coped with another wave of bomb threats Monday as officials in Philadelphia began raising money to repair and restore hundreds of vandalized headstones at a Jewish cemetery....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday gave the White House a plan to "rapidly defeat" the Islamic State group, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. The strategy includes significant elements of the approach President Donald Trump inherited, while potentially deepening U.S. military involvement in Syria....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared Monday that "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated." Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier....
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) -- A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A look at how the Academy Awards' winners envelopes are handled before being opened live onstage:...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes said Monday that Congress should not begin a McCarthy-style investigation based on news reports that a few Americans with ties to President Donald Trump had contacted Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign....
(Vatican Radio) Calls for the Albanian prime minister Edi Rama to step down have continued ahead of elections slated to take place on June 18. Listen to the report by correspondent Nathan Morley in Tirana: Hundreds of protestors gathered again in the blazing sunshine in front of the main government offices in Tirana, demanding change.The leader of Albania's main opposition Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, made an appearance at the rally on Monday telling correspondent Nathan Morley that he defended his decision to boycott parliament, which is causing delays to much-needed judicial reforms required by EU."This is now a republic run by crime and drugs”, Basha said."We are not blocking the justice reform; we want the vetting to be done. But we want it to be done according to the constitution - not according to the criminals that control this government and its agenda".Existing judges and prosecutors are being vetted due to a lack of confidence in t...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has said he wishes to travel this year to war-ravaged South Sudan together with the Archbishop of Canterbury.Answering questions put to him on Sunday by parishioners of All Saints’ Anglican Church in Rome during his visit to the Anglican community, the Pope said his “staff is studying the possibility of a trip to South Sudan in response to an invitation from the Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic bishops of the country whom, he said, “hope the presence of the Bishop of Rome and the Primate of the Anglican Communion can help pacification”.Last week Pope Francis made a strong appeal for South Sudan asking for concrete aid for the population which is suffering a severe food crisis which, he said, “condemns to death by starvation millions of people, including many children”.Vatican Radio’s Debora Donnini asked the South Sudanese Bishop of Yei, Erkolano Ludu Tombe, whether his people would be happy to welcome the P...
