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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) --Balancing a cup in one hand and a small sandwich over the plasticplate on her lap while a grandchild played on the floor next to herwheelchair, Marie Terese Tobin beamed with joy for all the gifts Godhas given her."Now I know why Ilasted this long," said the nonagenarian, to see the eldest ofher 13 children be made a cardinal. "It's the frosting on thecake," she said, smiling.Her son, Cardinal JosephW. Tobin, was one of 17 men from 14 countries to be inducted into theCollege of Cardinals by Pope Francis during a ceremony in St. Peter'sBasilica Nov. 19."Have you got allday?" she laughed when asked what makes Cardinal Tobin special."I can't tell you how much he loves his family," keeping intouch with siblings and their children, knowing what each and everyone of them is up to. This is what makes him areal pastor -- that "ability to have a really intimaterelationship with everyone," she told Catholic News Service at areception f...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Visiting young women rescued fromforced prostitution and meeting with a mother inconsolable over the loss of oneof her newborn triplets are images from the Year of Mercy that Pope Francissaid remain impressed on his heart.Reviewing the Holy Year in a 40-minute interview aired Nov.20 on TV2000, a television station owned by the Italian bishops' conference,Pope Francis also spoke about handling stress, his upcoming 80th birthday and asense of humor, among other topics.Asked about the Mercy Friday visits he made oncea month during the Holy Year, the pope said the visit with women rescued fromhuman trafficking and his visit to the neonatal ward of a Rome hospital werethe visits that stand out.Visiting Rome's San Giovanni Hospital in September, he said,"there was a woman who cried and cried and cried standing by her twoinfants -- tiny, but beautiful. The third had died.""She cried for that dead child while she caressed ...
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru, in their first known conversation since Donald Trump was elected the next U.S. president....
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Russia's failure to acknowledge it operated a state-sponsored doping program, continued obstruction of testing and cyberattacks on the World Anti-Doping Agency were denounced on Sunday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the moment a children's hospital in northern Syria was hit by an airstrike....
BERLIN (AP) -- Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as Germany's chancellor in general elections next year, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday....
PARIS (AP) -- French conservatives voted in a nationwide primary for the first time Sunday to choose their nominee for next year's presidential election, after a campaign marked by concerns about immigration and Islamic extremism....
PUKHRAYAN, India (AP) -- Rescuers worked through the night to pull people out of mangled coaches after an overnight passenger train derailed early Sunday in northern India, killing at least 115 people, police said....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly every morning since their father's stunning victory on Election Day, three of Donald Trump's grown children walk through the Trump Tower lobby and board an elevator. But are Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric going to the campaign office on the 5th floor? Their business offices on the 25th floor? The president-elect's penthouse on the 56th floor?...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump, in the midst of choosing his Cabinet, took time out Sunday for a second day to criticize the cast of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" and demand an apology for a message an actor delivered from the stage to Trump's running mate about the need for diversity in America. But Vice President-elect Mike Pence said he wasn't offended by the message....
