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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A few hours after urging priests to begenerously available for the sacrament of penance, Pope Francis went toconfession, then offered the sacrament to seven Catholics.Presiding over the annual Lenten penance service March 17 inSt. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis was one of 95 priests and bishops listeningto confessions and granting absolution.After the reading of a Gospel passage, the pope did not givea homily. Instead, he and the thousands of people gathered in the basilica prayed in absolute silence for 10 minutes.Pope Francis spent about four minutes kneeling before apriest in one of the wooden confessionals before he walked to one nearby, puton a purple stole and waited for the first penitent to approach.As people were preparing, confessing and praying, theSistine Chapel Choir alternated with the organist and a harpist in ensuring anatmosphere of peace.The pope spent 50 minutes administering the sacrament beforeleading t...
HODEIDA, Yemen (AP) -- The boat packed with dozens of Somali refugees was more than 30 miles off war-torn Yemen's coast when a military vessel and a helicopter gunship swooped in, opening fire in the dead of night Friday, killing at least 42 people. The attack, which Yemen's Shiite rebels blamed on a Saudi-led coalition, highlighted the perils of a heavily used migration route running from the Horn of Africa to the oil-rich Gulf, right through Yemen's civil war....
HONOLULU (AP) -- Lawmakers in nearly half the states want to add a requirement for presidential candidates: Show us your tax returns....
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The number of people killed in Peru following intense rains and mudslides wreaking havoc around the Andean nation climbed to 67 Friday, with thousands more displaced from destroyed homes and others waiting on rooftops for rescue....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Meals on Wheels, the popular service that provides food to the elderly, faces a sharp funding cut under President Donald Trump's budget proposal, drawing protests from congressional Republicans and Democrats....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump agreed to add fresh Medicaid curbs to the House Republican health care bill Friday, bolstering the measure with support from some conservative lawmakers but leaving its prospects wobbly. House leaders discussed other amendments calibrated to round up votes and scheduled a showdown vote for Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Friday stood by his unproven claim that his predecessor wiretapped his phones, suggesting he was the victim of the same sort of surveillance the Obama administration was once alleged to have used to monitor German Chancellor Angela Merkel's calls....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Though presenting a study in contrasts, President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a similar tack Friday in sidestepping differences after their first meeting at the White House. Trump asserted with a smile they had at least one thing in common: being wiretapped by the Obama administration....
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Syria fired missiles at Israeli warplanes on a mission to destroy a weapons convoy destined for the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah prompting it to deploy its missile defense system, Israeli officials said, in a rare military exchange between the two hostile neighbors....
