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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- At the moment when shooters unleashed terror on San Bernardino a year ago, county employees remembered their fallen colleagues with a moment of silence late Friday morning....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Three weeks after Sherri Papini disappeared, the question of whether she was dead or alive was answered when the young mother and wife was spotted waving frantically for help along a California freeway early on Thanksgiving morning. But the mystery over what happened to her during those 22 days just seemed to grow stranger....
SEATTLE (AP) -- The gunman had already shot a police officer, threatened to kill two children and barricaded himself upstairs in a house for 11 hours when one of the kids, a 6-year-old boy, escaped....
CHAPECO, Brazil (AP) -- This Brazilian hometown of the soccer team whose dream season ended in tragedy this week prepared Friday for the sad return of so many whose lives were cut short on an Andes mountainside, hanging origami figures of peace in the team's green and white colors from the fence of the local soccer stadium....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. jobs report on Friday made one thing clear: President-elect Donald Trump will inherit the same two-track U.S. economy that bedeviled his predecessor....
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Residents and business owners in Gatlinburg got their first look at the wildfire destruction on Friday, and many walked around the once-bustling tourist city in a daze, sobbing....
An "odious crime committed against a peaceful and defenceless servant of God," is how the Christians of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu are mourning the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire Kahambu. Sr. Marie-Claire, a Franciscan religious sister, was killed in Bukavu this week on Tuesday as she worked in her office at a girls’ training centre that she was running. According to Jimmy Ndumba of “Beni Lubero Online,” two men wielding knives, on the afternoon of 29 November, scaled the wall of the Mater Dei Parish, burst into the office of Sr. Marie Claire and savagely stabbed her several times. They got away with some money belonging to the centre.Hundreds of furious residents later demonstrated at the parish seeking justice. Two men have since been apprehended and charged with the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire. The two have been committed to the Bukavu High Court.Ironically, as the court case in Bukavu got under way, the Church, was celebrati...
After the Beatification of Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig in Germany on 24 September 2016, the Zambian unit of the Mariannhill congregation (CMM) this week celebrated a thanksgiving Mass for the beatification. It was also an opportunity to make known the newly Blessed of the Church to the faithful of the Archdiocese of Lusaka and Zambia. .The rainy day celebrations turned out to be a joyous and solemn occasion for the CMM family of priests, brothers, students and CMM Associates.The Holy Mass in honour of Blessed Engelmar prophetically took place at Englemar House of Formation in Lusaka. The house is situated about 7km south of the city centre. In attendance were most Mariannhill priests and brothers working and living in Zambia; the Precious Blood Sisters; local Archdiocesan clergy as well various religious men and women from the Archdiocese of Lusaka. The Mass was graced by the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Lusaka, Fr Oliver Mukunta who was the principal celebrant.In his homily,...
(Vatican Radio) Papal preacher Father Raniero Cantalamessa on Friday offered his first Advent Sermon to Pope Francis, focusing on the Holy Spirit’s action in the Church.As preacher to the Papal Household, Capucin Father Cantalamessa gives a meditation to the Pope, Cardinals and members of the Roman Curia every Friday morning in Lent and Advent in the Apostolic Palace’s “Redemptoris Mater” Chapel. Father Cantalamessa was named papal preacher by St. John Paul II in 1980, and was confirmed by both by Benedict XVI and by Pope Francis.Please find below the full text of the Reflection translated by Marsha Daigle Williamson:I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT1. The Innovation after the CouncilWith the celebration of the 50th year of the end of the Second Vatican Council, the first “post-conciliar” period comes to a close and a new one begins. If the first period was categorized by problems relating to the “reception” of the Counci...
