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Vatican City, Jun 8, 2017 / 04:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After a last-minute meeting with Pope Francis Thursday to discuss the dire situation of their country, Venezuela's bishops said they have his full support in facing the trials of a regime they say oppresses its people to maintain power.“The government has as a goal to maintain power at the cost of the life of any person at all costs,” Archbishop Diego Padrón Sanchez of Cumana told journalists June 8.Not only this, but the government “has the desire, the will, the scope, to have a submissive, silent people that doesn’t protest,” he said. And to ensure that this happens, society must be made up of a people who have “no food, no medicine (and) which spends every moment trying to resolve daily problems.”“A people that is oppressed, suffering and sick doesn't have the strength to raise itself in revolt against anyone,” he said.Archbishop Padrón spoke to a gro...
IMAGE: NS photo/David Maung, EPABy LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Asreaction swirled around President Donald Trump's June 1 decision to withdrawthe country from the Paris climate accord, Los Angeles received a report on"the dramatic increase in the numbers of our brothers and sisters who arehomeless," said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez."Each night in the countyof Los Angeles -- nearly 58,000 people have no place to call home," thearchbishop wrote June 6 in Angelus, the onlinenews site of the Los Angeles Archdiocese."Personally, I am worriedabout the quality of life here in Los Angeles. Every day, it seems the distancegrows wider between those who have what they need for a dignified life andthose who do not," he said, adding that the lack of affordable housing "isdirectly related to 'the human ecology.'""Human life and humannature must be protected and cared for -- our rights and dignity, the needs ofour bodies, minds and spirit," the archbishop said.Trump's action on the Parisaccord "provoked deep...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The extensive coverage of former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony on Thursday gave Americans time to pause and focus on the slowly unfolding story about President Donald Trump and Russian involvement in the presidential campaign. But there was no rest for partisan spinners....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House approved sweeping legislation Thursday to undo much of former President Barack Obama's landmark banking law created after the 2008 economic crisis that caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and homes....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The jury at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial heard from the comedian without him actually taking the stand Thursday as prosecutors read into the record his lurid, decade-old testimony about giving pills to Andrea Constand and then reaching into her pants....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nuanced conversations. Conflicting versions of events. Lingering intrigue....
LONDON (AP) -- The Latest on Britain's parliamentary election (all times local):...
LONDON (AP) -- An exit poll suggested Thursday that British Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble in calling an early election has backfired spectacularly, with her Conservative Party in danger of losing its majority in Parliament....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For three hours, former FBI Director James Comey leveled an unrelenting attack on the credibility of the president of the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former FBI Director James Comey asserted Thursday that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia's ties to the Trump campaign, bluntly accusing the White House of spreading "lies, plain and simple."...
