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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To involve young people inpreparations for the Synod of Bishops on youth in 2018, the Vatican hasreleased an online questionnaire to better understand the lives, attitudes andconcerns of 16- to 29-year-olds around the world.The questionnaire -- available in English, Spanish, Frenchand Italian -- can be found on the synod's official site:youth.synod2018.va/content/synod2018/it.html and is open to any young person,regardless of faith or religious belief.The general secretariat of the synod launched the websiteJune 14 to share information about the October 2018 synod on "Youngpeople, faith and vocational discernment" and to link to an online, anonymoussurvey asking young people about their lives and expectations.The answers to the questionnaire, along with contributionsfrom bishops, bishops' conferences and other church bodies, "will providethe basis for the drafting of the 'instrumentum laboris,'" or workingdocument for t...
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- The trapeze-artist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda says she'll be tethered to a helicopter when she hangs from the aircraft by her teeth as it flies over Niagara Falls....
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Five people, including the head of Michigan's health department, were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of Flint's lead-contaminated water, all blamed in the death of an 85-year-old man who had Legionnaires' disease....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Typewriter enthusiasts gather at an Albuquerque restaurant to experiment with vintage Smith Coronas. Fans in Boston kneel in a city square and type stories about their lives during a pro-immigration demonstration. A documentary on typewriters featuring Tom Hanks and musician John Mayer is set for release this summer....
PHOENIX (AP) -- A national meeting of Southern Baptists will consider condemning the political movement known as the "alt-right" amid an uproar over the denomination's commitment to confronting prejudice....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday he can now set U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan after receiving the authority from President Donald Trump. It's a break from past practice that Mattis said will enable him to more effectively manage the war effort....
LONDON (AP) -- A fast-moving overnight fire engulfed a 24-story apartment tower in London on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring 74 others, police said. Desperately trying to avoid the flames, residents threw one baby and other small children from high windows to people down on the sidewalk, witnesses said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Steve Scalise, a member of the House Republican leadership, is known for his love of baseball and the late-night meals he often serves his colleagues in his office near the Capitol's ornate Statuary Hall....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump decried the shooting of a top House Republican on Wednesday as a "very, very brutal assault" and called for all Americans to set aside differences and pray for the recovery of the victims....
