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LONDON (AP) -- Novak Djokovic's first-round match at Wimbledon lasted all of 40 minutes Tuesday. Roger Federer's, which was next in the All England Club's main stadium, went 43....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Latest on Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital in Rome, the subject of an AP investigation (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans are celebrating their country's 241st birthday with big-time fireworks, small-town parades and the quirky spectacle of competitive hot dog eating....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican secretary of state acknowledged Tuesday that there were problems at "the pope's hospital" for children in the past, but said the new administration is making a "serious effort to resolve them."...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Old City wall of Syria's Raqqa that was the scene of intense fighting Tuesday in the battle against the Islamic State group was once a testament to the golden age of Islamic civilization, when the city on the banks of the Euphrates River was the capital of the famed caliph Harun al-Rashid....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States asserted Tuesday that North Korea's latest missile launch was indeed an intercontinental ballistic missile, as the North had boasted and the U.S. and South Korea had feared. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called it a "new escalation of the threat" to the U.S....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has released his video message accompanying his monthly prayer intention for July.This month’s intention is for those distant from the Christian faith: "that our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to the Gospel, may rediscover the beauty of the Christian life."The text of the video message reads:"Let us never forget that our joy is Jesus Christ — his faithful and inexhaustible love.When a Christian becomes sad, it means that he has distanced himself from Jesus.But then we must not leave him alone! We should offer him Christian hope — with our words, yes, but more with our testimony, with our freedom, with our joy.Let us pray that our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to the Gospel, may rediscover the beauty of the Christian life."The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network of the Apostleship of Prayer&nb...
Orlando, Fla., Jul 3, 2017 / 03:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An encounter with the Lord frees us from sin and fear, and frees us for mission and evangelization, said Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore in his homily at the closing Mass for the USCCB’s Fortnight for Freedom. The July 3 Mass was held during the Convocation of Catholic Leaders in Orlando, Florida, and concluded the U.S. Bishop’s Fortnight for Freedom, a two week period of prayer for religious freedom in the United States. The Mass was also celebrated on the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, also known as “doubting Thomas”, from whom we can learn a lot about freedom, Archbishop Lori said. Archbishop Lori started by sharing his own moment of doubting. When he was about 10 years old, the only working TV set in his house broke, the Archbishop recalled. Forced to live without shows like “I Love Lucy” and Fulton Sheen’s “Life is Worth Living”, he wou...
Orlando, Fla., Jul 4, 2017 / 11:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The way we evangelize should grab the world by the shoulders and shake it out of its apathy, Bishop Robert Baron told a crowd of Catholic leaders Tuesday.Evangelization is especially urgent as the 'nones' - the number of the population who do not identify with a religion, continues to grow, he said.Bishop Baron, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and well-known evangelizer for Word on Fire, addressed the crowd of Catholic bishops and leaders gathered at the Catholic Convocation in Orlando, Florida through a live video feed on July 4, the last day of the gathering. “We do have a fight on our hands, but the great saints of our church have always loved a good fight, and we should too.” In a talk entitled “Equipping Evangelizers”, the bishop with more than 15 years of evangelizing experience said that there are three main challenges and three main opportunities that C...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- In theJuly 3 closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom, Baltimore Archbishop WilliamE. Lori called on Catholics to thank God for the gift of freedom and to praythat they "use this gift well and wisely.""It's too easy to let thisgift lie dormant or be neglected," he said in his homily at the Masscelebrated during the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of theGospel in America" in Orlando.Archbishop Lori, chairman of theU.S. bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty, had celebrated the fortnight'sopening Mass June 21 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumptionof the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.This is the sixth year of theU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Fortnight for Freedom -- a two-week periodof prayer, advocacy and education on religious freedom. It starts on the vigilof the shared feast day of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More -- martyrs whofought religious persecution -- and ends ...
