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Washington D.C., Oct 12, 2016 / 12:09 pm (Church Pop).- A priest from West Virginia recently won a quarter of a million dollars on the trivia TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and pledged to donate the money to a Catholic elementary school.Fr. Bill Matheny had been trying to get on the trivia show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for 17 years. This last summer, he finally fulfilled his dream, promising that he’d donate his winnings to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School in St. Alban, West Virginia, which he attended as a child.Using all three of his lifelines, he successfully won $250,000 before the show ran out of time.He returned the next day to go for $500,000. Though he was leaning toward a particular answer, he wasn’t confident enough to go for it and decided to walk away with the $250,000. After making that decision, the show revealed that his guess would have been correct.“If I were playing only for myself, I would’ve gone for it,” the priest ...
BOSTON (AP) -- Travel website TripAdvisor says it's taking a stand against animal exploitation by no longer selling bookings to attractions where travelers can make physical contact with captive wild animals or endangered species....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- An ideological tug of war over the firing of a Rhode Island church music director for marrying his same-sex partner illustrates the confusion that permeates some U.S. Roman Catholic parishes over Pope Francis' words on homosexuality....
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew first took the home of Sonette Crownal in a town on Haiti's southern coast. Then cholera came for her baby....
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- California prosecutors charged a gang member with first-degree murder and other crimes Wednesday in the ambush shootings of two Palm Springs officers, saying he deliberately attacked them for no reason except to kill police....
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Police officers and firefighters in eastern North Carolina cruised low-lying areas and shouted a simple message from bullhorns: Get out before the floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew arrive....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just over a month from Election Day, Hillary Clinton is treating a trio of perennial swing states - Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin - more like safe states....
The Philippine government's war against illegal drugs has become a challenge to not only church leaders but to "the people of God" who believe in the sacredness of life and in mercy and compassion.The president's war, which has already killed some 3,500 drug addicts and peddlers, has become a call on the conscience and the integrity of Philippine Catholic Church leaders."Thou shall not kill," reads the placards displayed outside some churches. Some Catholics have already decided to act and speak to protect life, practice love and mercy, and to heal the wounded.The teaching of Jesus to protect life has become a challenge in the midst of the killings. Filipino Catholics are called by their faith to take a stand on the issue of justice and due process and the right of people to live and not be shot on the mere suspicion of being a drug addict."Although death is a twin sister born with us on the same day we were born, death by terror and violence, deat...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday during his General Audience greeted the restorers of the Basilica of the Nativity in Jerusalem, accompanied by the vicar general of the Custody of the Holy Land, Fra Dobromir Jasztal, OFM.The current restoration works of the Basilica started in 2013, and so far the roof, windows, the wooden door in the narthex, and the mosaics of the walls in the nave and the transepts have been completed.Currently, the wooden architraves above the marble columns are being restored, and last month work started on the stone external facades on the western end. Funds are being sought to help restore the 50 columns, the floor mosaics, and to provide for the installation of fire prevention and lighting systems.
