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Washington D.C., Jul 12, 2017 / 03:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis cannot change Church teaching on contraception, despite the hopes of Melinda Gates.In a recent BBC interview, Gates has said she is “optimistic” that the Catholic Church will change church teaching on contraception in order to help women in developing countries.“We work very extensively with the Catholic Church and I’ve had many discussions with them because we have a shared mission around social justice and anti-poverty,” Gates said.“And I think what this Pope sees is that if you’re going to lift people out of poverty, you have to do the right thing for women,” she said, even though “we have agreed at this point to disagree” on contraception.Her comments come as her charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is currently co-hosting an international summit in London on the issue of access to contraception in the developing world.She said she was &l...
Vatican City, Jul 12, 2017 / 04:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Two works painted by Renaissance master Raphael have been newly identified after art experts restored famous frescoes in the Apostolic Palace of Vatican City.Arnold Nesselrath, an art historian who heads technical and scientific research at the Vatican Museums, told the Italian newspaper La Stampa that 16th century sources had offered clues. These sources said that Raphael had indeed painted two figures in the Apostolic Palace’s Hall of Constantine as tests of his oil technique.In Nesselrath’s words, these figures were described as being “of a much higher quality than the ones around them.”The exact identity of these figures was forgotten until the 21st century.In an art restoration process that began in 2015, experts cleaned the works and removed the effects of centuries of previous restoration work.They discovered that Raphael himself had painted two figures of women who serve as allegories for the vir...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The scope of congressional investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential contest came into sharper focus on Wednesday as lawmakers said they intended to question the former chairman of the Trump campaign and to determine whether Russian social media "trolls" were connected to Trump's election efforts....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be "very angry" if the Senate fails to pass a revamped Republican health care bill and said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must "pull it off," intensifying pressure on party leaders laboring to win over unhappy GOP senators and preserve the teetering measure....
(Vatican Radio) European Union leaders are meeting in Italy with their Western Balkan counterparts amid concerns about Russia's growing influence in the region and Wednesday's failure to settle a long running border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia. The EU's European Commission is expected to announce plans to boost economic growth in especially the countries of former Yugoslavia.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel aboard a spectacular ship as he began hosting Wednesday's summit in the northern port city of Trieste, seen as a symbolic bridge city between the European Union and the Balkans amid new tensions.The EU has made clear it wants to press ahead with economic integration at a time when Russia is increasing its political and military influence in the volatile region. Brussels also faces Brexit, a reference to Britain's plans to exit the 28 nation block, as we...
