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IMAGE: CNS photo/Hans Deryk, ReutersBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Benedictine Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki of St. Vincent's Archabbey inLatrobe, Pennsylvania, was with Arnold Palmer when the golfing great died Sept.25 in Pittsburgh.It wasn'tthe first time Archabbot Nowicki had visited Palmer that day. Palmer, 87, wasin a hospital awaiting a heart operation scheduled for Sept. 26. "I went to saya prayer and give him a blessing. About an hour after I'd departed, I got a call"that Palmer's health was failing rapidly, the archabbot told Catholic NewsService in a Sept. 26 telephone interview.Eventhough Palmer was a lifelong Presbyterian, he'd had a relationship with St.Vincent's spanning more than 50 years, when Archabbot Nowicki himself was inthe high school at the archabbey.Palmerdid not let denominational differences deter him. "Arnie sort of appealed to everyone.There were no barriers, race, color, creed -- those were things that never enteredinto" his mind, Archabbot Nowicki s...
MIAMI (AP) -- As the baseball world mourned the death of Jose Fernandez, a beachgoer found a bag containing four baseballs signed by the Marlins 24-year-old pitcher....
Longtime customers of Target's pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow....
LONDON (AP) -- As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo's massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web....
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A former ally of Gov. Chris Christie who pleaded guilty in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal testified Tuesday that he told the governor about the traffic jam while it was underway and that Christie appeared happy about it....
FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) -- Two men arrested in the killings of a California couple were friends with the victims' teenage daughter and attended "furry" events where some participants dress up in colorful animal costumes, according to friends and their social media pages....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats on Tuesday threatened to block must-do legislation to prevent the government from shutting down Friday at midnight, battle the Zika virus and help flood-ravaged Louisiana rebuild....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican senators pressed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday about whether anything more could have been done to prevent recent acts of extremist violence, including the Orlando nightclub massacre and the Manhattan bombing this month....
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- Donald Trump blamed the moderator, a bad microphone and anyone but himself Tuesday after he was forced onto the defense by Hillary Clinton's cascade of attacks about his taxes, honesty and character in the first presidential debate....
(Vatican Radio) During the final two months of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, initiatives to promote the faith are intensifying, often drawing on the lives of holy men and women as examples of virtue and mercy.One such initiative is the ‘Witnesses of Mercy in the Americas’ Symposium, organized by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the US Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado.The Symposium held in Rome on Sept. 24 reflected on some lesser-known witnesses to the faith, including Venerable Fr. Michael McGivney, Fr. Eusebio Kino, Fr. Antonio Margil de Jesús, as well as Denver’s Julia Greeley.Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver spoke to Vatican Radio about how these ‘normal people’ can provide an uncommon light for the world.Listen to the full interview: Speaking about the Symposium, Archbishop Aquila said the aim was to "recognize very normal people who had lived lives of mercy, who had responded to the call of mercy".Mission...
