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IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The morning after screening his film,"Silence," for about 300 Jesuits, the U.S. director Martin Scorsesehad a private audience with Pope Francis.During the 15-minute audience Nov. 30, Pope Francis toldScorsese that he had read Japanese author Shusaku Endo's historical novel,"Silence," which inspired the film. The book and film are afictionalized account of the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan; thecentral figures are Jesuit missionaries.Pope Francis spoke to Scorsese, his wife and two daughters,and the film's producer, about the early Jesuit missions to Japan and about theTwenty-Six Martyrs Museum andMonument in Nagasaki, which honors the Japanese martyrs executed on thesite in 1597.Scorsese gave the pope two paintings, which the Vatican saidwere "connected to the theme of the 'hidden Christians,'" theChristians who kept their faith secret during the persecution. One of thepaintings was of an image ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Grant Tinker, who brought new polish to the TV world and beloved shows including "Hill Street Blues" to the audience as both a producer and a network boss, has died. He was 90....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- For a half-century after the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history, Navy Capt. Paul "Bud" Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him - and not his last-minute replacement - on the doomed voyage of the USS Thresher in which 129 men died....
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian authorities on Wednesday were searching for answers to why a charter plane crashed shortly before it was to land in Medillin, killing all but six of the 77 people on board, including nearly an entire Brazilian soccer team in the midst of a storybook season....
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- Greek authorities picked up about 70 migrants, including children, in a snowy forest near the northern city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday, as smugglers turned to previously popular routes into the European Union rather than the sea crossing from Turkey....
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Thunderstorms dumped much-needed rain on eastern Tennessee overnight as thousands of people waited anxiously for news about their homes after wildfires tore through this resort community, killing at least four people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right....
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A Charlotte police officer who shot and killed a black man at an apartment complex, touching off several nights of unrest in the city, will not face charges, a North Carolina prosecutor announced Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader on Wednesday despite disenchantment among some in the caucus over the party's disappointing performance in elections earlier this month....
