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IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The CriterionBy INDIANAPOLIS(CNS) -- Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said June 14 the U.S. Catholic bishops "can never say that we are sorry enoughfor the share that we have had in this tragedy of broken fidelity and trust" -- the clergy sex abuse crisis.He made the comments in the homily at an evening Mass said to commemorate a "Day ofPrayer and Penance" for victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. The liturgy was celebrated at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis at the end of the first day of the bishops' spring assembly."Atthis Mass, we bishops humbly and sincerely ask for the forgiveness of those whohave been harmed, scandalized or dispirited by events that, even if theyhappened many years ago, remain ongoing sources of anguish for them and forthose who love them," he said."Webishops have learned a great deal about the sorrow and pain of those we loveand serve, even as we have to acknowledge humbly, publicly and pitifully...
PARMA, Ohio (AP) -- Bond has been set at $75 million for an Ohio man charged with killing five people, including a mother and her two college-age daughters....
MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Even doctors can be addicted to opioids, in a way: It's hard to stop prescribing them....
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Future accidental radiation releases at the largest U.S. site of waste from nuclear weapons production are likely following back-to-back emergency evacuations of workers in May and June because aging infrastructure is breaking down, the top Energy Department official at the site told The Associated Press....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs was captured Wednesday night in South Dakota after being on the run for nearly a year after escaping from home confinement in Utah pending trial on food stamp fraud charges....
LONDON (AP) -- Struggling through the trauma of what they witnessed, London firefighters combed through a devastated apartment tower on Thursday, trying to make sure the sooty, hulking ruin was structurally safe enough to let them keep searching for those still missing....
WYOMING, Ohio (AP) -- An American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned to his home state of Ohio in a coma suffered a "severe neurological injury," a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the day that gunfire shattered the morning calm of suburban Washington, dozens of family members of those killed by past gun violence had gathered in the capital to lobby against Republican-backed legislation to make it easier to buy gun silencers....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio judge has rejected a prosecution request to allow jurors to consider a lesser charge in the murder retrial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial told a judge Thursday they're deadlocked on charges the comedian drugged and molested a woman in 2004, but the judge told them to keep trying to reach a unanimous decision....
