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IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Without waiting for somewell-researched, detailed plan with action items and measurable goals, Catholicsin Quebec must go out and share the Gospel, Pope Francis told the bishops ofthe province.Meeting the 29 bishops of Quebec May 11, Pope Francis said,"You've got to go, and it's going to be messy," according to ArchbishopPaul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, former president of the Canadian Conference ofCatholic Bishops.The two-hour meeting was the second the Quebec bishops hadwith Pope Francis during their "ad limina" visit to Rome to pray atthe tombs of the apostles and to discuss the situation of their dioceses withthe pope and Vatican officials.The Quebec bishops also had met with the pope for threehours May 5 at an evening meeting that included the prefects or secretaries ofthe Vatican offices for bishops, clergy, religious, laity and family, Catholiceducation and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Pop...
In campus clashes from California to Vermont, many defenders of the First Amendment say they see signs that free speech, once a bedrock value in academia, is losing ground as a priority at U.S. colleges....
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- The largest cargo ship ever to visit ports on the U.S. East Coast is so long the Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument could fit end-to-end along its deck and still leave room for Big Ben....
Early moves by insurers suggest that another round of price hikes and limited choices will greet insurance shoppers around the country when they start searching for next year's coverage on the public markets established by the Affordable Care Act....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A burgeoning Indianapolis suburb has paid the wife of an influential congressman $580,000 since 2015 for legal consulting she largely does from the Washington area, an unusually large sum even in a state rife with highly paid government contractors, according to a review by The Associated Press....
School officials never told the mother of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself that another student had thrown him against the wall two days earlier and knocked him unconscious in an attack recorded by a surveillance video, attorneys for the boy's mother said Thursday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday decided to spare a terrorist known as Bashir the American a long prison term after he switched sides and became a prized U.S. government cooperator, sentencing him to time served, about eight years....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A new Republican caucus in the Oklahoma House is suggesting that more than 80,000 non-English speaking students in public schools be turned over to federal immigration officials....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. must "do something very different" in Afghanistan, such as placing American military advisers closer to the front lines of battle, or risk squandering all that has been invested there in recent years, the head of the Pentagon's military intelligence agency said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Thursday he would have fired FBI Director James Comey even without the recommendation from his top political appointees at the Justice Department, contradicting earlier White House accounts....
