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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the U.S. president's personalenvoy to the Vatican, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See has a unique role inbuilding a bridge between the political center of the United States and thereligious-spiritual center of the universal Catholic Church in Rome.Like every U.S. ambassador, the diplomats it assigns tothe Holy See function as a two-way street: They are messengers, representingthe U.S. president in all matters and explaining the administration's policies,and they are observers, acting as the eyes and ears of the United States andkeeping track of what is unfolding at the Vatican.President Donald Trump has nominated Callista Gingrich tobe his ambassador. The 51-year-old testified before the Senate Committee onForeign Relations July 18 and was awaiting confirmation as the month drew to aclose.The Holy See is more than just an independent sovereignstate: It's also the home of the pope and a font of moral-ethical responses to...
IMAGE: CNS/family handout, courtesy FeatureworldBy Simon CaldwellMANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- Charlie Gard, the British baby whose legal battle caught the attention of the world, died July 28, just overa week before his first birthday, his family announced.Connie Yates, the baby's mother, issued a brief statementsaying: "Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are so proud ofyou Charlie."Charlie, who would have turned 1 year old Aug. 4, had beentransferred to a hospice for palliative care after Yates and his father, ChrisGard, said July 24 they had decided to drop their legal battle to pursuetreatment overseas.The couple wanted to take Charlie home to die, but a HighCourt judge decided it was in the child's best interest to spend his finalhours in the care of a hospice. He suffered from encephalomyopathicmitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome.The situation had caught the world's attention, includingthe attention of Pope Francis. The day the parents dropped their legal battle, GregBurke,...
BERLIN (AP) -- The Latest on the attack at a supermarket in Hamburg (all times local):...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Rides at the Ohio State Fair's Kiddieland and some elsewhere in the amusement park reopened Friday with the OK of inspectors two days after the governor shut them all down following a thrill ride malfunction that killed a teen who had recently enlisted in the Marines....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy acquired an exclusive label Friday: Recession-free for eight full years. Yet the third-longest economic winning streak in American history still doesn't get much love....
For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren't so addictive....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped down Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him removed from office over allegations of corruption, plunging the nuclear-armed nation into a political crisis....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's surprise vote early Friday was only the latest narrow escape for "Obamacare" - the social program with nine lives that has survived dozens of congressional attempts to kill it, and two Supreme Court challenges....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Friday test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew longer and higher than the first according to its wary neighbors, leading analysts to conclude that a wide swath of the U.S. including Los Angeles and Chicago is now within range of Pyongyang's weapons....
LONDON (AP) -- Charlie Gard, the terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal and ethical battle that attracted the attention of Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump, died Friday. He was one week shy of his first birthday....
