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NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. In the book world's equivalent of a Supreme Court ruling, the Nobel judges declared Thursday that Dylan is not just a rock star but a poet of the very highest order....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign tried to move the Illinois presidential primary to a later date, saying a contest held after the Super Tuesday primaries might stop momentum for a moderate Republican candidate and emphasizing that Clinton and her husband "won't forget" a political favor, emails made public on Thursday show....
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Michelle Obama said Thursday that Republican nominee Donald Trump bragging on a 2005 tape about his fame allowing him to "do anything to women" shook her to the core....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Rocked by allegations of sexual assault, Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at his female accusers as "horrible, horrible liars" as the deeply divisive presidential campaign sank further into charges and countercharges of predatory treatment of women....
The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and Sao Tome (CEAST) have expressed concern with the current economic scenario in the country. The fall in the price of crude oil, on the international market, has plunged Africa’s second largest crude producer into dire straits. Notwithstanding its oil and the fact that Angola has vast mineral wealth, the country has the highest under-five mortality rate in the world. This is according to the World Health Organisation.The Bishops raised the concern during the opening of their second plenary meeting which started on 12 October and will end on 19 October. President of CEAST, Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, who is the Archbishop of Luanda spoke of the very low purchasing power of many households in Angola. Another concern of the Angolan Bishops relates to the issue of demolition of homes and forced evictions in the capital city, Luanda. The Bishops say that in the space of a few months, more than two thousand houses ha...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday afternoon met with football legend Diego Maradona and other players in the “Match for peace and solidarity” which took place later that evening at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico.Among other stars playing in the match were Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Aldair, Cafu, Claudio Lopez, Hernán Crespo, Zambrotta, Rui Costa, Juan Sebastián Verón, Fabio Capello, Aitor Karanka, and Francesco Totti.The White team led by Karanka and Ronaldinho beat the Blue team led by Capello, Maradona, and Totti by a score of 4-3.The football match was promoted by ‘Scholas occurrentes’, Comunità Amore e Libertà, Centro Sportivo Italiano and Unitalsi. The proceeds from the match will be used to help the earthquake victims in central Italy.
The Catholic Church of Indonesia last week concluded its Second Indonesian Youth Day (IYD2) in Manado, the capital of the northern province of North Sulawesi, with nearly 2,460 young men and women from all of the nation’s 37 dioceses taking part in it. After six days of prayer, reflection, testimonies, catechesis that kicked off with a 3-day live-in programme in local families, the Second Indonesian Youth Day (IYD2) ended with a highly animated evening Mass Oct. 6 at the ‘Amphitheatre’ of the Emmanuel Catholic Youth Centre at Lotta, a suburb of Manado. After the Mass followed a variety programme that included the final declaration by the nation’s Catholic youth, speeches, songs, dances and entertainment by the various diocesan regional groups with fireworks to cap it all close to midnight.The IYD, Oct. 1-6, had as its theme, “The Joy of Gospel amidst a Plural Society i...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written the preface to the book “Bartholomew: Apostle and Visionary,” published by the U.S.-based Thomas Nelson. The book is being published to mark the 25th anniversary of the election of the Ecumenical Patriarch, who is the “first among equals” of the Orthodox Church.Pope emeritus Benedict XVI also contributed a chapter to the volume.The October 12 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, had the texts written by Pope Francis (available here) and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI (available here) in their entirety.“The Church of Rome and the Church of Constantinople are united by a profound and long-standing bond, which not even centuries of silence and misunderstanding have been able to sever,” – Pope Francis wrote – “This bond is exemplified by the relationship between those to whom tradition attributes the foundation of our respective Churches, namely, the holy apostles Peter ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday morning met with Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the NATO military alliance.The Holy See Press Office did not release any details of the meeting.However, Mr. Stoltenberg sent a tweet saying “Honoured to meet [Pope Francis]. His vision for a just world and appeal for cooperation is inspiring. Especially in times of increased tension.”
Caritas India, an official agency of the Catholic Church, has decided to fight against an openly discriminatory mentality, announcing the launch of a programme for the assistance and social promotion of transgender people. The Catholic Church's social service wing has confirmed the decision in a statement on Monday, Oct. 10 after holding internal talks on its inclusive development policy."Caritas is open to work with transgender people. I am even open to recruiting them," said Fr Frederick D’Souza, executive director of Caritas India, during the meeting. Referring to the initiative as the “beginning of a new school of thought,” and explaining: “People who are suffering for no fault of their own because of sexual confusion in their body require our attention and support.”With this programme, Caritas hopes to eradicate “traditional biases against them,” in the awareness that this “decision will definitely have implication...
