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(Vatican Radio) Russia's Foreign Ministry has condemned new U.S. sanctions against Russians involved in the Ukraine conflict saying the move puts at "serious risk" the entire bilateral relationship amid mounting tensions between Washington and Moscow.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his American counterpart Rex Tillerson on Thursday that new sanctions imposed by Washington on Russia would damage relations between the two nations, Moscow said.Sanctions target mainly Russian people and companies linked to the conflict in Ukraine, where Russia anneced the Crimean peninsula and allegedly supports pro-Russian seperatists in the east of the country.The Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Lavrov as saying in the phone call that "Actions of this kind, put the entire sphere of Russian-American relations at serious risk."Before the phone call, Lavrov already complained about what he called America's Russophobic obsession.B...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Shawn Thew, EPABy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The Senate's Better Care ReconciliationAct contains "many of the fundamental defects" that appeared in theHouse-passed American Health Care Act "and even further compounds them," said the bishop who heads theU.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.The Senate released its health care reform bill in "discussion draft" form June 22."Asis, the discussion draft stands to cause disturbing damage to the human beingsserved by the social safety net," Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice,Florida, said in a statement released late June 22. "It is precisely the detrimental impacton the poor and vulnerable that makes the Senate draft unacceptable as written."BishopDewane criticized the "per-capita cap" on Medicaid funding, whichwould no longer be an entitlement but have its own budget line item under theBetter Care Reconciliation Act. The effect, he said, "would provide evenless to those in need than the H...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- As the nation's opioid epidemic intensified, Indiana cracked down on over-prescribing doctors and "pill mills" catering to people with addictions. The state also took aim at doctor-shopping - the practice of visiting multiple physicians to score more painkillers....
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- The Flint, Michigan, airport officer stabbed in the neck during what authorities are investigating as a terrorist act is recovering well from a 12-inch "slash" that caused significant bleeding but spared major arteries and a nerve by "millimeters," one of his doctors said Friday....
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- At least 40 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded Friday in four separate bomb and gun attacks in three major Pakistani cities, officials said....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Friday called itself the "biggest victim" in the death of an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump suggested he was just trying to keep fired FBI Director James Comey honest with his cryptic tweet implying there might be recordings of their private conversations....
Vatican Weekend for June 24th, 2017 features a report on Pope Francis’ general audience, an interview with Cardinal-designate Anders Arborelius ahead of the June consistory, Monsignor Kennedy, a senior curial official, reflects on the issue of fake news and how Christians should respond plus an inspirational story of how a U.S. Catholic photographer founded a charity to give a future to slum kids who were scavenging for a living in a garbage dump.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for June 25th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel reading, “there’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
(Vatican Radio) “Keep moving forward with courage, creativity and boldness.” Those were Pope Francis’ words to Serra International whom he met on Friday on the occasion of their 75th convention.Listen to this report: To quote St John Paul II, Serrans “accept as their responsibility the promotion of vocations to the priesthood and religious life”, and on Friday, his successor to the See of Peter, Pope Francis said that above all else a Serran, “is a special friend whom the Lord has brought into the lives of seminarians and priests.”The Holy Father made the comment during an address to the 600 participants attending the 75th Convention of Serra International taking place in Rome this week.Speaking about friendship, the Pope said friends stand at our side, they listen to us closely, and can see beyond mere words; they are merciful when faced with our faults; they are non-judgmental. This, Pope Francis commented is, “als...
