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Vatican City, Aug 13, 2017 / 04:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis repeated a message he often has, warning against putting one's trust in horoscopes and fortune telling rather than Christ, who is the only true security that gets us through times of trial and darkness.Pointing to how Peter begins to sink when walking toward Jesus on the water in the day's Gospel reading, Francis noted that the same thing can happen to us when we put our trust in false securities.“When we do not cling to the Word of the Lord, but consult horoscopes and fortune tellers, we begin to sink,” the Pope said Aug. 13.The episode, he said, serves as a reminder “that faith in the Lord and in his word does not open a path where everything is calm and easy; it does not take us away from the storms of life.”Rather, “faith gives us the security of a presence that pushes us to overcome the existential storms, the certainty of a hand that grabs us in order to help us...
LONDON (AP) -- A British model who was allegedly abducted in Italy has said she understands why people may doubt her story, but insists she was "terrified" and certain she would die during the ordeal....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament voted overwhelmingly Sunday to increase spending on its ballistic missile program and the foreign operations of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, chanting "Death to America" in a direct challenge to Washington's newest sanctions on the Islamic Republic....
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The Latest on incidents related to violent clashes between white supremacist groups and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va., that left three dead(all times local):...
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- In his first game in an Oakland Raider uniform, Marshawn Lynch didn't play a down....
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed "many sides" for the violent clashes between protesters and white supremacists in Virginia and contended that the "hatred and bigotry" broadcast across the country had taken root long before his political ascendancy....
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation's roiling racial and political divisions....
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The bishop from the Catholic Diocese ofRichmond, Virginia called for peace following violence in Charlottesville lateon Aug. 11 and subsequent events at the University of Virginia that left atleast one person dead after a car plowed into a crowd on the afternoon of Aug.12 during a white nationalist rally. The Associated Press reported that at least 20 were injuredSaturday and the mayor of Charlottesville confirmed one death in the afternoonvia Twitter after the car rammed into the crowd of marchers. "In the last 24 hours, hatred and violence have been ondisplay in the city of Charlottesville," said Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo in astatement. "I earnestly pray for peace."Charlottesville is in Bishop DiLorenzo's diocese.Virginia's governor declared a state of emergency Aug. 12 whenviolence erupted during the "Unite the Right" white nationalist protest againstthe removal of a statue of a Confederate general. But the trouble had already startedthe nigh...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Republican-controlled Texas Senate backed a plan Saturday night to restrict insurance coverage for abortions, over the objections of opponents who expressed concern it could force some women to make heart-wrenching choices because no exceptions will be made in cases of rape and incest....
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The Latest on the white nationalist rally being held in Charlottesville (all times local):...
