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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a murder case against two former New Mexico police officers who prosecutors said killed a mentally ill homeless man as he tried to surrender and defense attorneys countered was armed with two knives and posed a threat....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Like thousands of other Americans, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton abruptly upended their plans Thursday in Florida, where Hurricane Matthew threatened to wreak havoc on final-stretch presidential campaigning in a critical swing state....
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LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's death toll jumped late Thursday after rescue crews began reaching remote corners cut off when Hurricane Matthew slammed into the country's southwest peninsula, the first Category 4 storm to hit Haiti in more than a half century....
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San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, Oct 6, 2016 / 02:45 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A priest in the northern Argentine city of San Miguel de Tucumán who in recent days denounced drug traffickers in his homilies was found dead in his rectory on Wednesday.The body of Father Juan Heraldo Viroche, 46, was found hanged Oct. 5 in his room at Our Lady of the Valley rectory. Police reported finding his belongings scattered on the floor.The court has ordered an autopsy on the priest's body to establish the cause of death.Hallaron muerto al sacerdote Juan Viroche (46) quien había denunciado el accionar de bandas de narcos en Tucumán https://t.co/V8Z9Ibe2Dx pic.twitter.com/iOVBftTJqm— DiarioJornadaChubut (@JornadaWeb) October 5, 2016The parish faithful said that days before, the priest had expressed his concern over threats received because of his denunciations of the gangs engaged in selling drugs.One of Fr. Viroche's actions was to say a Mass in November 2015 callin...
Vatican City, Oct 6, 2016 / 02:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy Spirit is the “great gift” of God the Father who helps us avoid the stupidities of a legalistic faith while leading us forward in Christian life, Pope Francis has said.“May the Lord give us this grace: to open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so that we will not become stupid, bewitched men and women who sadden the Holy Spirit,” the Pope remarked in his homily at morning Mass at Casa Santa Martha Oct. 6.He provided several questions for the faithful to examine their spiritual lives:“Is my life a continual prayer to open myself to the Holy Spirit, so that He can carry me forward with the joy of the Gospel and make me understand the teaching of Jesus, the true doctrine that does not bewitch, that does not make us stupid, but the true (teaching)?”“Do I ignore the Holy Spirit?” he asked. “And do I know that if I go to Sunday Mass, if I do this, if I do that, is it enough?&r...
Washington D.C., Oct 6, 2016 / 04:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine was gravely wrong to say he personally opposed abortion while taking a pro-choice stance in public office, a moral theologian says.Kaine, a Catholic, took a “gravely immoral position” and one “that is incorrect,” Fr. Thomas Petri, dean of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., told CNA of Kaine’s argument that he tries to “follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life” but will not “mandate that [faith] for everybody else” through opposing abortion in public office.“This is a human issue, not a religious issue,” Fr. Petri said of abortion. He pointed to Pope St. John Paul’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” which insisted that right to life is the “primary right” and “without life, there are no other rights.”One must oppose abortion not just on religi...
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct 6, 2016 / 04:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Indiana Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence’s bid to keep Syrian refugees out of his state was blocked by a federal appeals court this week.The appeals court, made up of a panel of three well-known conservative judges, upheld a lower court’s decision, which said Pence was discriminating against Syrians by blocking them from receiving federal funds to resettle in his state.One member of the appeals court is on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees.In a unanimous decision, the appeals court said that Pence acted illegally by accepting federal funds to resettle refugees from other countries and denying them to Syrian refugees.In November 2015, Pence suspended state agencies’ involvement in the relocation of Syrian refugees following terrorist attacks that killed more than 120 people in Paris on Nov. 19, 2015.This week, the f...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Giorgio Onorati, EPABy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Typically, the Facebook page for the Dioceseof Providence Office of Vocations in Rhode Island gets anywhere from 3 to 40 likes on theirposts -- most which celebrate seminarians, priests and their ministry. But ittook an actor and former member of a boy band to set its Facebook page onfire, not with a song, but with a video praising the priesthood, and one whichhas been viewed -- as of Oct. 6 -- 560,000 times, and received more than 6,000 likesand upward of 8,000 shares.Actor Mark Wahlberg, a native of Boston, where the NationalConference of Diocesan Vocation Directors held its annual conference Sept. 30?Oct.7, made the homemade video shown to those who attended, and later posted onDiocese of Providence vocations office Facebook page."We, the Catholic faithful, are counting on you to bring usgood and holy priests," Wahlberg said in the video. "Enjoy my hometown thisweek and know that I will pray for you and for ...
