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IMAGE: CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New WorldBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- PopeFrancis has named Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich a member of theCongregation for Bishops, the office that advises the pope on the nomination ofbishops around the world.Archbishop Cupich, 67, takesthe place left vacant by U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, who turned 80 inmid-June and automatically ceded his membership.The congregation is led byCanadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, its prefect. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl ofWashington also serves as a member.In a statement from Chicago,Archbishop Cupich said: "I am humbled by the Holy Father's trust andconfidence in me. While my primary responsibility remains here in theArchdiocese of Chicago, I look forward to joining other members of theCongregation for Bishops to serve the pope and the church in thisministry."Nuncios,or Vatican ambassadors, around the world conduct the initial search for priestssuitable for the office of bishop and forward their ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican court, citing freedom of thepress, acquitted two journalists who published confidential documents whiletheir source, a Spanish monsignor, was sentenced to 18 months behind bars. Judge Giuseppe Della Torre, head of the tribunal of the Vatican City State, delivered hisruling July 7, declaring that the court had no legitimate jurisdiction overGianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi. The court foundMsgr. Lucio Vallejo Balda, secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairsof the Holy See, and Francesca Chaouqui, a member of the former PontificalCommission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the HolySee, guilty of having roles in the leaking of confidential documents aboutVatican finances.Finding the Spanishmonsignor guilty of actually stealing and passing on secret documents, thecourt sentenced him to serve jail time. The judges determined that Chaouqui'srole was one of encouraging th...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's warm, wild and costly weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal meteorologists say. And if that's not enough, they calculated that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar weather disasters....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Basic training for Navy SEALs is designed to be a grueling process to find the U.S. military's strongest fighters and turn them into an elite force able to dive into the world's deadliest places....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A Vatican court declared Thursday it had no jurisdiction to prosecute two journalists who wrote books based in part on confidential documents exposing greed, mismanagement and corruption in the Holy See, ending a trial that drew scorn from media rights groups....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain is on course to get its second female prime minister, after Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom on Thursday to fight a runoff contest for leadership of the country's governing party....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump tried to assure skittish GOP lawmakers Thursday that they all share the same Republican Party goals, but Senate antagonists withheld support after a tense meeting with the presidential candidate....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Four previous "use of force" complaints were lodged against the two white police officers in the video-recorded shooting death of a black man and they were cleared in all of them, according to internal affairs documents released Thursday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Minnesota woman who calmly put live footage of her dying boyfriend online after he was shot by police brought a shocking new immediacy Thursday to the issue that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement....
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- A woman who watched as a police officer fatally shot her boyfriend during a traffic stop broadcast the gruesome aftermath of the slaying live on Facebook, telling a worldwide audience that her companion had been shot "for no apparent reason" while reaching for his wallet as the officer had demanded....
