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DALLAS (AP) -- The gunman who killed five Dallas police officers did not have a large stockpile of bomb-making materials at his suburban home, two officials said Friday, contradicting earlier claims that Micah Johnson possessed enough explosives to stage a larger attack....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After frenzied, final decision-making, Donald Trump announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate Friday, adding an experienced politician with deep Washington connections to the Republican presidential ticket....
NICE, France (AP) -- Almost instantly, those in its murderous path could tell that the speeding white truck was all wrong so late at night on Nice's beachfront boulevard whose bright lights glittered along the bay like a string of stars....
NICE, France (AP) -- France called up thousands of reserve security forces Friday as authorities tried to determine why a Tunisian deliveryman known only to be a petty criminal took the wheel of a 19-ton truck and plunged through a terrified seaside crowd on Bastille Day, leaving 84 people dead and more than 200 wounded....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday urged all sides in Turkey to support the democratically elected government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid a military takeover of the key NATO ally....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- The Latest on what appears to be an attempted military coup in Turkey (all times local):...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Members of Turkey's armed forces said they had taken control of the country, but Turkish officials said the coup attempt had been repelled early Saturday morning in a night of violence that left at least 17 dead, according to state-run media....
Sacramento, Calif., Jul 15, 2016 / 12:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On July 8 Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Servant of God Alphonse Gallegos, who was auxiliary bishop of Sacramento from 1981 to 1991.The late bishop is now called Venerable, and only one miracle worked through his intercession is needed before he can be beatified.“This is wonderful news for all those who knew him,” Fr. Eliseo Gonzalez, vice-postulator of Venerable Gallegos' cause of canonization, told CNA.Fr. Gonzalez is a member of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, in which Bishop Gallegos was ordained a priest in 1958. Since the cause for canonization opened in December 2005, Fr. Gonzalez has been working to tell the bishop’s story.He explained that many people who knew Bishop Gallegos considered him a “living saint.”The bishop was born Feb. 20, 1931 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was the eigh...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, ReutersBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Father BryanMassingale, a priest of the Milwaukee Archdiocese and well-knowntheologian, knows what it's like to be watched by police.Hesaid that as a black man there have been times he has been followed by police officerson the campus of Marquette University, where he taught for 12 years, as hewalked on campus when he wasn't wearing his priestly garb.It'sa sign, Father Massingale told Catholic News Service, of the widespread racismthat is entrenched in American culture.Racismtakes many forms: unequal access to housing, economic segregation, differencesin the quality of schools between poor and well-to-do communities, and howpolice approach someone at a traffic stop or a street-side altercation."That'swhy we need to understand that racism is more than negative speaking," saidthe priest, who will join the theology faculty at Fordham University Aug. 1."It's really a cult of white supremacy. (Saying) that makes...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Tom Brady said on Friday he will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block his four-game "Deflategate" suspension, ending his fight in a scandal that tested the power of the NFL commissioner and tarnished the reputation of one of the sport's greatest players....
