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DENVER (AP) -- Every day, tens of thousands of U.S. airline passengers settle into their seats, lower the window shades and reach up to twist the air vents without the benefit of something that might do even more to keep them cool: a rule setting temperature limits inside the cabin....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans' latest health care plan would create winners and losers among Americans up and down the income ladder, and across age groups....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An Indiana senator and longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries announced Friday that he's selling his stock in his family's arts and crafts company after The Associated Press reported it manufactures some products in Mexico....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Russian-American lobbyist who attended a meeting at Trump Tower last year is a former military officer long shadowed by allegations of connections to Russian intelligence....
Vatican Weekend for July 17th, 2017 features a program on the figure of St. Bonaventure, the 13th century theologian and mystic, to coincide with his feast day, a report on a course hosted by the Congregation for Clergy to discuss a revised handbook of best practices for priestly formation and we get an update on how starvation and drought are threatening millions of people in East Africa.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 16th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” a guided tour of Rome’s Basilica of San Clemente, a unique three-tiered church, and Carmelite Father Reggie Foster talks about Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Carmelite order to coincide with her feast day.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
The newly-elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has said he will promote "active dialogue" during his term as head of the collegial body over the next two years. Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao, who was elected president at the CBCP plenary assembly on July 8, said it is the vision of the country's Church leaders to pursue dialogue. He takes over from Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan when he finishes his 2-term presidency in December.Arch. Valles regarded his election as "God's will". “I look at it with faith that even with all my limitations God must have allowed it, me to be elected as president," the 66-year old prelate told the church-run Radio Veritas. Archbishop Valles said that even through his "smallness" he would be able "to do my job and do the affairs of the conference in a way that could put the glory of God in his church."Arch....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life has a new way to interact with the world: a new website launched this week.Online at www.laityfamilylife.va, the new site offers news about the Dicastery’s activities, as well as social updates and videos.Explaining its mission, the Dicastery says, “The new website, in addition to telling about the Dicastery’s activities, wants to become a familiar place for lay people and families, where everyone will feel at ease and have [a] chance to be heard.”The portal also presents the Dicastery’s new logo, which represents “a hug that welcomes all the laity and all the families of the world.”Designed by Anna Formaggio, the logo represents the colonnade around St. Peter’s Square made up of lay people who embrace a group of families.“From the colonnade and the families within it life is born,” life which is represented by a flower sprouting from the colum...
(Vatican Radio) Respect, responsibility and relationship are the three themes highlighted by Pope Francis in a message addressed to the “Laudato Sì & Big Cities” conference taking place in Rio de Janeiro.The 3-day event is organized by the “Antoni Gaudí Foundation for Big Cities” that aims to contribute to the humanization of large urban centers in a world in which a growing 52% of the global population lives in highly populated urban centres.Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Sì” is being used as a focal point of discussion and reference regarding environmental, ethical and management issues pertaining to big cities.Respecting Creation is one of our "core tasks” Pope Francis writes in his strongly worded message to conference participants, and he reaffirms, as he did in his encyclical – to which the Rio conference is dedicated - that we “cannot just remain on the sidelines when we notic...
The archbishop of the Sri Lankan capital has called on his Catholics to observe a week of prayer and fasting, beginning on Saturday, to obtain God’s graces to help deal with deadly mosquito-borne dengue fever that has killed more than 230 in Sri Lanka this year. "Let's pray to the Blessed Mother and all the saints, that they may intercede for us at this time of need," said Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, asking his faithful to join a week of prayer and fasting, 15-23 July. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infectious disease. Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health reported this week that more than 87,600 suspected cases of the infection have been reported in 2017. Dengue is endemic in Sri Lanka, but the number of infections this year is already about 38 per cent higher than 2016, when 55,150 people were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Experts say the virus is a particularly virulent strain that is new to Sri Lanka, and th...
