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By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After weeks of very public tensionswith the Vatican, the head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta accepted Pope Francis' requestthat he submit his resignation.The order's communications office confirmed Jan. 25 that Fra Matthew Festing, the 67-year-old grand master, metwith Pope Francis the day before and agreed to resign.The Vatican said Jan. 25 that Pope Francis intends to appoint apontifical delegate to govern the order.Festing, who has led the world's largest chivalric ordersince 2008, will submithis resignation Jan. 28 to the order's governing council, according to the order'scommunications office. A short Vatican statement said Festing offered to resignJan. 24 and Pope Francis accepted his offer the next day while "expressingto Fra Festing appreciation and recognition of his sentiments of loyalty anddevotion to the successor of Peter and his openness to humbly serving the goodof the order and the church."The Order of Malta is made up ...
GENEVA (AP) -- Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals because of a doping case involving Jamaican teammate Nesta Carter....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican announced Wednesday it was taking over the embattled Knights of Malta in an extraordinary display of papal power after the leader of the sovereign lay Catholic order publicly defied Pope Francis in a dispute over condoms....
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An outspoken Nebraska state legislator who was fined for having cybersex using a state computer resigned Wednesday after causing further outrage by sending a tweet that implied participants at a women's march were too unattractive to be victims of sexual assault....
AGIOS ATHANASIOS, Greece (AP) -- As a member of a persecuted minority in Iraq, 24-year-old Shaker Mahie has seen his people massacred, raped and scattered across a new continent. Now, the Yazidi - whose faith is older than Christianity - are at the center of a new European dilemma....
GIULIANOVA, Italy (AP) -- A survivor of an Italian avalanche that devastated a mountain hotel says she only learned she had been buried by tons of snow after she was rescued....
The Dow Jones industrial average crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time Wednesday, the latest milestone in a record-setting drive for the stock market. The other major U.S. stock indexes were also moving higher in morning trading, led by banks and other financial companies. Strong earnings from Boeing and other big companies drove the rally, extending gains from the day before....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump tweeted early Wednesday that he is ordering a "major investigation" into voter fraud, revisiting unsubstantiated claims he's made repeatedly about a rigged voting system....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is considering a major review of America's methods for interrogating terror suspects and the possible reopening of CIA-run "black site" prisons outside the United States, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Associated Press....
(Vatican Radio) Holy Mass was celebrated on Tuesday in the Vatican Grottoes for the 16 Hungarian victims of a bus crash, which occurred last Friday near Verona, Italy.The secondary school students were returning to Budapest from a skiing trip in France when their bus crashed into a highway overpass and burst into flames.The suffrage Mass was presided over by Bishop Ferenc Cserháti in the Magna Domina Hungarorum Chapel in the Grottoes under St. Peter’s Basilica.Among those present at the Mass for the victims and their families were the Hungary's Ambassadors to the Holy See and Italy, along with the Embassies’ staff.In his homily, Bishop Cserháti said, “As we cry, we must not forget that these departed young people are written on the palm of God’s hand, because they are His creatures, and God desires not death but life.”
