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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Does he or doesn't he? Believe in climate change, that is....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia's government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press has learned....
SINGAPORE (AP) -- North Korea is accelerating its push to acquire a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States and other nations, and the U.S. regards this as a "clear and present danger," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The city of Chicago and the U.S. Justice Department have negotiated a draft agreement that calls for an independent monitor to oversee police department reforms, though it is unclear if there will be court oversight at some stage in the future, an official in the administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friday....
There is a children's song, "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands"...
Yaounde, Cameroon, Jun 2, 2017 / 02:45 pm (CNA).- The body of Cameroon Bishop Jean-Marie Benoît Balla, who has reportedly committed suicide, has been found, African sources have reported.The Bishop of Bafia in Cameroon had been declared missing earlier this week when his car was spotted on Wednesday near the Sanaha river, near the nation’s capital, Yaoundé.A note was reportedly found in his car, which read: “Do not look for me! I am in the water.”While many believe this was the bishop’s suicide note, others believe he may have been murdered, due to other unsolved murders of priests in the country. Boko Haram has been accused of kidnapping priests and nuns in the country.The La Croix newspaper in its edition for Africa reported that the Cameroonian Bishops' Conference had issued a communique asking for prayers to find the Bishop, in whose car "the police have not found any sign of violence or blood."2 Days ago Catholic Bishop of Bafi...
Lima, Peru, Jun 2, 2017 / 04:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Italian priest and exorcist Fr. Sante Babolin said that “the devil, Satan, exists” and that “evil is not an abstraction,” in response to recent comments from Fr. Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Society of Jesus.In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Fr. Arturo Sosa said that "we have made symbolic figures, like the devil, to express evil."“Social conditioning can also represent this figure, since there are people who act [in an evil way] because they are in an environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary,” Fr. Sosa added.Speaking to ACI Prensa June 2, Fr. Babolin recalled several places in documents and statements of the Church that show the true existence of the devil.Fr. Babolin recalled the documents of the IV Lateran Ecumenical Council in 1215, state that Christians "firmly believe and simply confess" that God created "from nothing...th...
Florence, Italy, Jun 2, 2017 / 04:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Sister Candida Bellotti, thought to be the oldest nun in the world, died Saturday at the age of 110.Sister Bellotti had celebrated her 110th birthday on Feb. 20, 2017 and received a special birthday greeting from Pope Francis.“To the Reverend Sister Candida Bellotti, Sister Minister of the Sick, who with gratitude to God is celebrating her 110th birthday, the Holy Father Francis spiritually participates in the joy we all share for this happy occasion and sends warm congratulations and heartfelt wishes,” said the pontiff in his message at the time.The Italian nun was 30 years older than Pope Francis. Her life spanned ten pontiffs: Pius X (1903-1914), Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), Pius XII (1939-1958), John XXIII (1958-1963), Paul VI (1963-1978), John Paul I (1978), John Paul II (1978-2005), Benedict XVI (2005-2013), and Pope Francis (2013- ).Sister Bellotti was born in 1907 in the province of Verona...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina GuidosBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In his youth, Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroypictured himself as a lawyer and a senator, working in the deep recesses ofWashington's U.S. Capitol building. In a way, he's doing just that but not inthe way he imagined."I'm not in the Senate, I'm in the House," he said insidethe Capitol, where his law degree from St. Louis University is perched onthe wall of his spacious office, along with a lifetime of memories that includea photo of him blessing Pope Francis during his visit to Congress, and one of him nextto the Dalai Lama, as well as souvenirs from the American Indian reservation inWashington state where he once offered his legal services. Photos with studentsfrom his 10-year campus ministry stint at Georgetown University also are sprinkledthroughout.While the dreams of his youth, becoming a lawyer and working atthe Capitol, have been fulfilled, he didn't initially expect them to come true whilewearing an all-black o...
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- It was 50 years ago, almost to the day, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play....
