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IMAGE: CNS photo/Archdiocese of PhiladelphiaBy Lou BaldwinPHILADELPHIA(CNS) -- It is no accident that each year many films shown on television betweenMemorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of D-Day center on World War II.Afterall, with more than 16 million men and women under arms, it was easily thelargest and deadliest war ever fought by the United States.Onlya tiny percentage of them are still alive, and one of them is a Catholic bishop-- retired Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop Louis A. DeSimone, 95.Backin 1944, he was Sgt. Louis DeSimone, a 22-year-old translator of Italian attachedto the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Army. Joining it in Casablanca, Morocco,during the African campaign and continuing through Sicily, up the Italian bootto Montecassino and after that to the deadly Anzio beach landing, he arrived inRome a few days after the bloodless liberation of the Italian capital.Hecould not know it immediately, but this last event would affect his entirelife.BishopDeSimone minim...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Cristian Hernandez, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With Venezuela's political andeconomic crisis turning violent and after the country's president tried toclaim he had thesupport of Pope Francis, the leadership of the country's bishops' conferencetraveled to the Vatican.The bishops requested the meeting, which was held June 8 as protests continuedin their homeland and protesters continued to die. Since April, close to 70people -- both government supporters and supporters of the opposition -- havebeen killed in the protests.The Vatican listed the meeting in its daily bulletin butprovided no information.On the eve of their meeting with the pope, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino ofCaracas told Vatican Radio that "the repression" exercised by thegovernment of PresidentNicolas Maduro "has been increasingly cruel."In addition to official security forces, he said, there arepro-government, armed civilian groups, "which is absolutely criminal, so that the situation isex...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Getting Kevin Spacey to spill the beans about his plans hosting the Tony Awards turns out to be as likely as his character on "House of Cards" renouncing blackmail and backstabbing....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Heavily armed al-Shabab extremists have stormed a military base in Somalia's semiautonomous state of Puntland, killing close to 70 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Thursday. Residents said civilians, including women, were beheaded during the rampage....
TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. (AP) -- A supermarket employee brought two guns to work overnight Thursday and fatally shot three fellow employees before turning the gun on himself, Pennsylvania state police said....
ATLANTA (AP) -- More than 70 years ago, a U.S. Army plane dubbed "Hot as Hell" was headed for India on a supply mission. It never arrived, and no one went looking for the doomed aircraft or the eight men on board because military officials had no way of pinpointing where it went down....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain voted Thursday in an election that started out as an attempt by Prime Minister Theresa May to increase her party's majority in Parliament ahead of Brexit negotiations but was upended by terror attacks in Manchester and London during the campaign's closing days....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on developments involving fired FBI Director James Comey (all times EDT):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former FBI Director James Comey accused the Trump administration Thursday of spreading "lies, plain and simple" about him and the FBI in the aftermath of his abrupt firing, in dramatic testimony that threatened to undermine Donald Trump's presidency....
Catholics in southern India’s Kerala state have been urgedto show greater solidarity with the suffering Christians of Odisha state and spread the message of their exemplary witness. Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly who heads the eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, made the appeal on June 6 while releasing the Malayalam version of a book by rights advocate and journalist Anto Akkara that details the atrocities of the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. The riots orchestrated by Hindu extremists that raged for weeks claimed the lives of more than 100 Christians because they refused to abandon their faith. Over 6,000 Christian homes and 300 churches were plundered and torched leaving more than 56,000 homeless. Nearly 9 years after the violence, many Christians are still awaiting justice and compensation from the government. Many have not been able to return to their homes.A...
