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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles police chief on Monday defended the use of deadly force against two men in separate fatal shootings over the weekend, saying one turned toward officers with a gun and the other pointed what looked like a real gun at police....
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Returning to Ohio for the first time in a month, Hillary Clinton tried to make up for lost time Monday with a fiery populist pitch aimed at upending rival Donald Trump in a battleground state where he's tapped into voters' economic anxieties....
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Rome, Italy, Oct 3, 2016 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Italian police have arrested a 39-year-old Ghanaian man who entered several historic churches in central Rome Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, destroying a number of statues and creating panic among the faithful and tourists who were there at the time.The vandal went into action around 7:30 pm on Friday evening in Saint Praxedes Basilica. He destroyed a statue of Saint Praxedes, and then did the same with a miniature reproduction of Saint Anthony, cutting off the head, according reports by various Italian media.The pastor, Father Pedro Savelli, explained that “right away I thought it was an attack by ISIS. The man was outside himself, but thank God we were able to get him out before he could destroy everything. He said children cannot be taught to believe using sacred images as we do.”The attacker also tried to destroy a crucifix but the priest managed to grab him by the leg and stop him.The act occurred a few minutes after the e...
Washington D.C., Oct 3, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Amidst the current environment of “political polarization,” one archbishop exhorted public officials on Sunday not to be discouraged, but to pray together and ask for “an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.”“At this critical moment in our nation’s history, at this time when America seems to be almost paralyzed by a political polarization that impedes our ability to address effectively a whole host of pressing needs, we gather not just to pray for our country and its leaders in general, but to plead in a particular way for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on those who are involved in the administration of justice,” Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis said on Sunday.Archbishop Hebda preached the homily at the Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, D.C. The Mass has been held annually for Supreme Court justices, judges, and other public officials since 1952, and ...
Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct 3, 2016 / 04:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The tiny community of the Catholic Church in Georgia was barely surviving just decades ago.Now it has an opportunity to regenerate itself following Pope Francis' model of the “Church of consolation,” the local Catholic bishop has said. “During his Mass, Pope Francis did not speak of a strong and powerful Church, but rather of a Church able to give consolation. And I thought: this is the Church I like, a Church that has openings and does not get used to things,” Bishop Giuseppe Pasotto explained. Bishop Pasotto is an Italian religious of the Stigmatine congregation. He moved to Georgia in 1993, was appointed apostolic administrator of the Caucasus region in 1996. “The path of our Christian community was beautiful and exciting. We started from zero,” he told CNA. “Back in 1993, there were Christian communities, but we had to teach them Mass again, as they were o...
Montpelier, Vt., Oct 3, 2016 / 05:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A medical ethics group and a Christian doctors’ group have challenged Vermont regulators who say that doctors must tell patients about assisted suicide or refer them to someone who will.“The government shouldn’t be telling health care professionals that they must violate their medical ethics in order to practice medicine,” said Steven H. Aden, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom. “Because the state has no authority to order them to act contrary to that sincere and time-honored conviction, we are asking the court to ensure that no state agency is able to do that while this lawsuit moves forward.”Aden’s organization, a religious liberty group, has filed a lawsuit against officials in the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the Office of Professional Regulation.The lawsuit’s plaintiffs, the Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare and the Christian Medical and Dental Ass...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Shawn Thew, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The United States, with its mixed record on the death penalty, isabout to take a closer look at the issue this fall with two cases before theSupreme Court and three referendums on state ballots in the November election.Inthe two death penalty cases before the court, both from Texas, one examinesinformation given to jurors while the other questions whether the state properlymeasured intellectual capability of the accused."TheSupreme Court cases this fall are addressing the brokenness of the judicialsystem," said Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic MobilizingNetwork to End the Death Penalty.Shesaid these cases "address the most troubling aspect of the death penalty,which is disproportionately used on vulnerable populations."Buckv. Stephens will be argued before the court Oct. 5, two days into its new term.It reviews the 1995 sentencing of Duane Buck, who was given the death penalty for the1995 murders...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- More than five months after Prince's fatal drug overdose, investigators have narrowed their focus to two main questions: whether doctors illegally prescribed opioids meant for the pop star and whether the fentanyl that killed him came from a black-market source, a law enforcement official said....
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