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NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump reeled Friday under a barrage of campaign missteps and scandalous revelations of lewd comments he made about women several years ago, undermining the Republican's attempts to steady a presidential bid at risk of imploding....
This morning in the Holy See Press Office a press conference was held to present the music CD of the Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir: “Palestrina. Missa Papæ Marcelli – Motets”, a monographic work on Pierluigi de Palestrina edited by Deusche Grammophon. The panel was composed of Archbishop George Gänswein, prefect of the Papal Household; Msgr. Massimo Palombella, director of the Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir; Dickon Stainer, president and chief executive officer of Global Classics Universal Music Group International; Clemens Trautmann, president of Deustche Grammophon; and Mirko Gratton, director of the Classical Music Department of the Universal Group.Archbishop Gänswein explained that it was not by chance that the second CD by the Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir contained the famous Missa Papæ Marcelli and several motets on the theme of mercy, selected to emphasise also musically the extraordinary Jubilee convened by the Holy Father. &ld...
New York City, N.Y., Oct 7, 2016 / 01:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced Thursday that the New York archdiocese is establishing an independent compensation program for victims of sexual abuse committed by clergy of the local Church.“This program will, please God, continue to help bring a measure of peace to those who have suffered abuse by a member of the clergy of the archdiocese,” the Archbishop of New York wrote in an Oct. 6 letter to the faithful.“While the Church … has made great strides in dealing vigorously with clergy accused of abuse, and in preventing acts of abuse through our Safe Environment programs, we continue to hear from victim-survivors that more needs to be done to reach out to those who have been harmed in the past.”He added, “As this Year of Mercy nears its conclusion, it is fitting and proper that we take this opportunity to ask forgiveness for mistakes that have been made by those – only a tiny p...
LONDON (AP) -- The London School of Economics says some of its academics will no longer be allowed to advise the U.K. government on Britain's exit from the European Union because they are not British citizens....
MOSCOW (AP) -- International diplomatic pressure increased on Moscow Friday to end the joint Russian-Syrian siege of the city of Aleppo, but Moscow's U.N. ambassador says he will most likely veto a Security Council resolution that would ground Russian warplanes....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States called Friday for a war crimes investigation of Russia and Syria, ramping up the rhetoric against Moscow for its part in a deadly military offensive in Aleppo while potentially making it harder to restart diplomatic efforts to end the conflict....
GENEVA (AP) -- Russia lodged a formal complaint last month with the United Nations over a top U.N. official's condemnations of Donald Trump and some European politicians, an intervention that underscores the unusual links between the Republican presidential nominee and the Kremlin....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew sideswiped Florida's Atlantic coast Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to more than 800,000 people but sparing the most heavily populated stretch of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. is accusing Russia of hacking political sites, saying it is trying to interfere with the upcoming presidential election....
The Daughters of St. Anne Ranchi, based in Ranchi, the capital of India’s Jharkhand state, is an indigenous religious congregation founded nearly 120 years ago, in 1897 by Mother Mary Bernadette Prasad Kispotta, a local Chotanagpur tribal woman, together with three of her companions. With the opening of the process of her sainthood in the Archdiocese of Ranchi on Aug. 7 this year, Mother Kispotta became the first tribal woman of India to be declared a “Servant of God” by the Catholic Church. Last week in the first part of an interview with the Superior General of the Daughters of St. Anne, Ranchi, Sr. Linda Mary Vaughn, we came to know how Mother Kispotta, who was a Lutheran, converted to Catholicism. She fought of pressures from her family to get married, saying, if nothing else, she would remain single to serve the Loreto nuns. Inspired by the sacrifice and dedication of the Loreto...
