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BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Significant Islamic State group counterattacks in southeastern Mosul inflicted heavy losses on Iraqi forces overnight after a new push deeper into the city this week, according to an Iraqi Army officer....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof had a "cold and hateful heart" when he pulled a pistol from his fanny pack during a Bible study last year and killed nine black church members as they closed their eyes for a final prayer, a prosecutor said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, whose last command included oversight of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, to run the Department of Homeland Security, people close to the transition team said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a source close to Pruitt said Wednesday. Environmental groups quickly denounced the choice....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Laying new groundwork for his presidency, Donald Trump chose retired Gen. John Kelly Wednesday to head his Homeland Security Department and offered newly sympathetic words for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children....
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Thousands gathered on a pier overlooking Pearl Harbor, observed a moment of silence and watched jets streak across the clear blue sky Wednesday in honor of the 75th anniversary of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II....
(Vatican Radio) For the very first time, the Vatican has approved an association dedicated to its women employees. Donne in Vaticano (D.VA) or Women in the Vatican is open to lay and religious female employees and retirees of Vatican City State, the Holy See and its related institutions. Its establishment is unprecedented in the history of the small state. According to a press release issued by the Holy See Press office, the twelve founding members of the newly formed Association formally signed the Act of Constitution, approved by the competent authorities, on 1 September 2016 at Vatican City’s Governorate.Its membership now open to the some 750 women employees of the Vatican and to the many in retirement, D.VA intends to create a network of friendship, exchange and solidarity for the personal and professional growth of its members. President Tracey McClure, a senior journalist at Vatican Radio, says the Association was founded upon the belief “that women are a ...
Vatican City, Dec 7, 2016 / 09:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis gave an interview to a Belgian magazine in which he cautioned media to avoid several major temptations, including the desire to always focus on scandal – which he compared to “coprophilia,” a mental illness in which a person has an abnormal interest in feces.“Media I think have to be very clean, very clean and very transparent. And not fall – without offending, please – into the sickness of coprophilia,” the Pope said in his new interview, published Dec. 7.Coprophilia, or coprophagy, is technically defined as a condition in which a person has an abnormal interest and pleasure in feces or excrement. However, for Pope Francis, his use of the word referred to an attitude in journalism that always tries to communicate scandal. Since people looking to the media frequently have “a tendency toward coprophilia” – meaning they take pleasure in and seek ou...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Pearl Harbor MuseumBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- A Catholic military chaplain and historian says the attack on PearlHarbor, even 75 years later, continues to rivet the attention of Americansbecause it is "such a powerful event."As theanniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack neared, Father Daniel Mode detailed theeffect of the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian outpost."Beforethat, we were debating whether to get involved with World War II or not. Wewere basically a neutral country, trying not to get engaged in it. It (theattack) changed the tenor, and the president's resolve, Father Mode told CatholicNews Service. "It brought our country together to fight a common threat."Speakingin a telephone interview from the Pentagon, where he works for the chief ofchaplains, Father Mode said he can see a parallel between Pearl Harbor and the9/11 terror attacks."They'reboth cataclysmic events that galvanized our country," he said. "One was more obviouslytargeted toward the ci...
