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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As news broke last year about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, one of her top aides suggested simply releasing all the messages from her time as secretary of state....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- With public clamor growing for the release of footage from Donald Trump's reign on "The Apprentice," the show's executive producer and parent company remained silent Wednesday on why they say they cannot release any archived video or audio from the hit reality TV program....
BEIRUT (AP) -- For more than a month, insurgents fighting President Bashar Assad's forces had been on the march in central Syria, getting within a few miles of the fourth-largest city of Hama. Many in the opposition hoped they would cut a main government supply line to Aleppo and ease the pressure on the rebels there....
As the higher education crisis in South Africa continues, Jesuit Fr. Graham Pugin was Monday injured by a rubber bullet Fr Graham Pugin S.J., who was injured on the mouth by a rubber bullet at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, has received medical treatment and is recovering. This is according to a statement issued by Fr David Rowan SJ, the Regional Superior of the Jesuits in South Africa and made available to Vatican Radio by Fr Russell Pollitt SJ.Fr Pugin has been one of the facilitators, along with other clergy and former student leaders, working towards an agreement for students, management and other stakeholders at the University of the Witwatersrand. Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Braamfontein has served as a safe space for negotiations. Sections of South African media reported that Fr Pugin was struck on the mouth by a rubber bullet Monday as he tried to protect students seeking safety at the Church. Fr. Rowan has decried the high presence of security personnel at th...
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....
