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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on where they lived, new research shows....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A freakishly balmy February broke more than 11,700 local daily records for warmth in the United States, but it didn't quite beat 1954 for the warmest February on record, climate scientists said....
BOSTON (AP) -- FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday he plans to serve his entire 10-year term, even as controversy swirls over his attempt to rebut President Donald Trump's claim that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the election....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Casey Anthony - the Florida woman accused, then acquitted, of killing her 2-year-old daughter - spoke with The Associated Press five times over a weeklong period. During the interviews, she talked about her love for her daughter, Caylee Marie, and showed photos of her and artwork she finger-painted. Anthony maintains her innocence in the death and insists she doesn't know how the last hours of Caylee's life unfolded....
A district attorney in North Carolina is asking for a state investigation of two of his assistant prosecutors who are members of a North Carolina church that former congregants say beat members and derailed criminal investigations....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Many American women stayed home from work, joined rallies or wore red Wednesday to demonstrate how vital they are to the U.S. economy, as International Women's Day was observed with a multitude of events around the world....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details it uncovered about CIA hacking tools with leading technology companies whose flagship products and services were targeted by the U.S. government's hacker-spies....
(Vatican Radio) Monsignor Janusz S. Urbanczyk on Wednesday spoke about gender equality in the military at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).The Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE said, “The Holy See fully supports the political, economic, social and cultural participation of women alongside and on the same level as men.”Msgr. Urbanczyk said the Holy See cautioned against “reducing the role of women… to a mere matter of numbers or percentages”.He also reminded those present of Pope Francis’ definition of the feminine genius: “the moral and spiritual strength of a woman” that compliments the moral and spiritual strength of a man – shows itself in a particular way in “[e]ncouraging others to promote sensitivity, understanding and dialogue in settling conflicts big and small, in healing wounds, in nurturing all life at every level of society, and in embodying the m...
Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 06:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. Roy Edward Campbell, Jr., a former vice-president for Bank of America, as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington.“All of us in the Archdiocese are deeply grateful that our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has named Father Roy Campbell to be an auxiliary bishop in our Church of Washington,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, said in a statement March 8.Father Campbell, who was born, raised and who has worked and served in the archdiocese, “brings to his new ministry recognized talent and demonstrated ability. He also bears witness to the great cultural and ethnic richness of the Church of Washington reflected in all of the faithful, lay, religious and clergy.”“Personally I look forward to continuing to work closely with our new auxiliary bishop, who over the years has made significant contributions to the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/David AgrenBy David AgrenFRONTERA COMALAPA, Mexico (CNS)-- In the early 1980s, parishioners at the Santo Nino de Atocha parish in thistown on the Mexico-Guatemala border opened their church and homes to refugees fleeingcivil war in Guatemala. Three decades later, they're preparing for anotherinflux of asylum seekers -- this time from countries farther south as CentralAmericans seek safety from the gang violence gripping El Salvador and Honduras."The parish has always beena welcoming place for migrants," said Sister Maria del Carmen Diaz, a nunworking in the parish. "People here don't have much money. But they offerwhat they can and, what little they have, they share. There's a sense ofsolidarity."The parish opened the St.Raphael shelter for migrants in 2011, but it went unused as Central Americans,fresh from crossing the border, tended to move on quickly and head north towardthe U.S. border. But the shelter was recently expanded -- in cooperation with theJesuit Migr...
