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By Dennis SadowskiORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- For some it was about keeping young people in the church. Others wanted to hear about diocesan ministries in another locale and perhaps bring an idea home. A few more were glad they could be heard by a bishop or two.Whatever their reason to travel to hot, humid Florida for four days in the middle of summer, the 3,500 delegates to the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" headed home July 4 with renewed energy to set a new course for the U.S. Catholic Church.The convocation, years in planning, was the first time in a century that the bishops convened church leaders -- clergy, religious, seminarians, parish volunteers and professional staff among them -- to respond to social and spiritual quandaries that have left millions of people drifting on the margins of society.Clergy -- more than 155 prelates and 300 priests -- recognize that the church must respond to those quandaries. While cardinals, archbishops and bish...
ROME (AP) -- When doctors and nurses at the Vatican's showcase children's hospital complained in 2014 that corners were being cut and medical protocols ignored, the Vatican responded by ordering up a secret in-house investigation. The diagnosis: The original mission of "the pope's hospital" had been lost and was "today more aimed at profit than on caring for children."...
TOKYO (AP) -- Keeping North Korea from having a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile has long been considered a key U.S. red line, and one the North has thumbed its nose at for years. Its Fourth of July ICBM launch is just the latest step in its long march toward, and maybe over, that line....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reached their biggest audience ever when they talked Friday about President Donald Trump's tweets about their show....
On good days, American high jumper Jamie Nieto can shuffle 130 steps without a cane or walker....
HELSINKI (AP) -- Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first major automaker to forgo traditional engines that rely exclusively on internal combustion....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A police officer was shot to death early Wednesday, ambushed inside her command post RV by an ex-convict who once ranted online about his treatment in prison and about police getting away with killing people, authorities said. He was later killed after pulling a gun on police....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump expressed frustration with China on Wednesday for failing to do more to cut off support to North Korea and exert pressure to curb its nuclear pursuits....
T here were 35,000 cases of child trafficking and 1,25,750 cases of women trafficking reported in India in 2016-17, with West Bengal state topping in both categories, a senior official of the National Anti-Trafficking Committee (NATC) has said. "Among 35,000 reported cases of child trafficking, 13,000 were registered in West Bengal. In percentage terms, it comes to 37," NATC Chairman Sk. Jinnar Ali told reporters in Kolkata on Sunday, on the sidelines of NATC’s West Bengal conference. He said in terms of women trafficking, the eastern state accounted for nearly 42 per cent of the cases in the country. The women victims were mostly trafficked to Mumbai, Chennai and Dubai. Ali said most of the cases of trafficking in women in the past one year came fromt three districts of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Murshidabad of West Bengal. RehabilitationThe NATC conference announced it would build six more schools for the trafficking vict...
The Gulf crisis involving Qatar and its neighbouring nations has hit many Catholic families says the region’s Catholic Church authority. From a social point of view, the ongoing row between Qatar and Saudi-led Gulf states has led "many people to lose their jobs" and "created a situation of uncertainty for the future," Bishop Camillo Ballin of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia told AsiaNews.The prelate whose jurisdiction includes Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain, spoke about the situation of Catholic immigrants in Qatar who have been badly affected by the serious dispute that broke out in June between Riyadh and Doha. "This situation ends up touching Christians who have no personal interests in local politics," Bishop Ballin said. Uncertainty "does not encourage investment and the result is a blockaded country." The tiny, oil- and gas-rich state of Qatar has been cut off and isolated by some of the...
