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Lincoln, Neb., Sep 30, 2016 / 03:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholics who can't in good conscience vote for either major presidential candidate are well within their rights to pick a third option, says Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska.Voters need to discern whether there is a candidate in each race who can “advance human dignity, the right to life and the common good,” he said in his Sept. 30 column for the Southern Nebraska Register.“When there is, we should feel free to vote for that candidate – whether they are a member of a major party or not,” he said. “No Catholic should feel obliged to vote for one candidate just to prevent the election of another.”The bishop advised a prudent course that avoids dangerous forms of “blind partisanship” and misleading political rhetoric and media alarmism. He acknowledged the possibility that “in extraordinary circumstances” some Catholics may decide there is no sui...
Tbilisi, Georgia, Sep 30, 2016 / 04:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on his visit to Georgia will find a country where dialogue among Christians is particularly difficult, with cool relations between the Georgian Orthodox Church and the country’s tiny Catholic minority.For this reason his trip is “ecumenical, but not according to the common meaning of the word ecumenism,” a top official of the Catholic Church in Georgia told CNA.The Georgian Orthodox Church – an Eastern Orthodox Church to which more than 80 percent of Georgians adhere – is considered part of the national identity. While it is not an established religion, the Georgian constitution does acknowledge Georgian Orthodoxy's special role in the nation.Catholics, meanwhile, constitute only one percent of Georgia's population, while members of the Armenian Apostolic Church (which is Oriental Orthodox) are three percent, and Muslims are more than 10 percent.Fr. Akaki Chelidze, a Camill...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A not guilty plea has been entered on behalf of an Oklahoma police officer charged with first-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The 6-year-old girl was found trapped under the rubble of her home, destroyed by an airstrike in Syria's rebel-held city of Aleppo. "Dust!" she wailed as rescue workers pried away the stones and debris on top of her, finally freeing her and placing her on a stretcher as she screamed for her father....
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- National Transportation Safety Board investigators held off questioning the engineer in the deadly Hoboken train crash because of his injuries Friday and struggled to lift clues from the train's black box recorders....
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Plunging deeper into campaign controversy, Donald Trump publicly shamed a former beauty queen on Friday for her "disgusting" sexual past and then - in one of presidential history's more bizarre moments - encouraged Americans to watch a "sex tape" he said would support his case....
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Video footage released Friday of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in a San Diego suburb shows an officer fired four shots almost immediately after the man suddenly raised both hands to chest level and took what was described as a shooting stance....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):...
Mombasa Archbishop, Martin Kivuva, this week, presided over the launch of Radio Tumaini at Our Lady of Good Hope Pilgrimage, Bura Shrine. Tumaini comes hot on the heels of Radio Mchungaji in Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Mararal launched in August. Addressing the faithful gathered at the shrine, Archbishop Kivuva welcomed the new radio station as a tool for evangelization in the Archdiocese of Mombasa. “Radio Tumaini ni mwanga wetu (Radio Tumaini is our light), it represents a tool for spreading Christ’s message of hope. We are happy, and we will journey together and look forward (to the future) with hope,” Archbishop Kivuva said. He continued, “Through Radio Tumaini, our objective is to cover the whole archdiocese by targeting the four counties of Kilifi, Taita Taveta, Kwale and Mombasa,” he outlined.Radio Tumaini will broadcast in KiSwahili on the 93.0 FM frequency. The Archbishop thanked the technical team led by Kenya Conference of ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a heartfelt letter to hishomeland Sept. 30, Pope Francis told his fellow Argentines that he will not be able tovisit this or next year because of obligations in Asia and Africa."You don't know how much I would love to see you again," PopeFrancis said in the letter addressed to the people of Argentina, which is a transcriptof an accompanying video message."For me, the people of Argentina are my people, you areimportant," he wrote. "I continue to be an Argentine, and I still travel withan Argentine passport. I am convinced that the people are the biggest treasureof our homeland."Pope Francis said he wanted to go to Argentina to beatify "MamaAntula" and to canonize "Cura Brochero." He was referring to Maria Antonia dePaz Figueroa, an 18th-century Catholic laywoman who championed the Ignatian spiritualexercises in Argentina after the Jesuits were expelled, and Jose Gabriel delRosario Brochero, a "gaucho," or cowboy priest, kno...
