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IMAGE: NS photo/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As someone accustomed to the stress ofthe gridiron, University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh said hewas touched by Pope Francis' peaceful presence. "The way he talks is peaceful, it's calm. It felt like this is what itwould be like to meet Jesus Christ. That's what it felt like to me. It was veryemotional," the coach told journalists April 26.Harbaugh and his wife, Sarah, briefly greeted the popefollowing his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square earlier that day. "I said, 'Buenos dias, Santo Padre' ('Good morning,Holy Father'), and then my wife came in and told him that she loved him. Heheld her hand and prayed and asked that we pray for him," Harbaughrecalled. The coach and his wife presented the pope with a Michiganfootball helmet along with a pair of size-10 Air Jordan sneakers in the football team's maize and blue colors.Harbaugh said the pope smiled and graciously accepted ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tanya Connor, The Catholic Free PressBy Tanya ConnorWORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) -- Thecongregation, numbering about 50, gathered for their last Easter Mass together onthe DCU Center's arenafloor.The chaplain, Father George "Jerry"Hogan, borrowed one of their colorful boxes to use as an altar. Thealtar cloths and his chasuble sported circus images. Costume designers had sewnpieces of old elephant blankets together to make his stole.The backdrop suggested thereason for such an unusual liturgical environment: The Ringling Bros. andBarnum & Bailey Circus had come to town to offer shows on Good Friday, HolySaturday and Easter Sunday.But it isn't all "fun and games"for performers and other circus workers, some of whom attended the Mass before theEaster shows. While "they've always performed during Holy Week," they arenow going through the paschal mystery themselves, Father Hogan told TheCatholic Free Press, newspaper of the Diocese of Worcester.The Ringling circus was near...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump "has no intention" of releasing his taxes returns to the public, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Wednesday, asserting Americans have "plenty of information" about the president's financial matters....
BLANCHESTER, Ohio (AP) -- A man with mental health problems kidnapped a neighbor and kept her trapped in a small grave-like pit in his backyard shed, where her cries for help alerted other people living nearby and led to her rescue, police said....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dee Young remembers April 29, 1992, the way most Americans of a certain age recall Sept. 11 - it's indelibly etched in his memory as the day his world and that of thousands of others changed forever....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought - more than 100,000 years ago -- and maybe they were Neanderthals....
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Fearing a return to violent protests that roiled campuses in the 1970s, colleges and universities are re-examining how to protect free speech while keeping students and employees safe in a time of political polarization....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The conservative House Freedom Caucus announced its support Wednesday for a newly revised GOP health care bill, a month after the group's opposition forced Republican leaders to pull the legislation in an embarrassing retreat....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump proposed dramatic cuts in corporate and personal taxes Wednesday in an overhaul his administration asserts will spur national economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to America's middle class. But his ambitious plan is alarming lawmakers who worry it will balloon federal deficits....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration hosted senators for an extraordinary White House briefing Wednesday at a perilous moment with North Korea, marked by the unpredictable nation's nuclear threats and stern talk of military action, if necessary, from the United States....
