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CHICAGO (AP) -- Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district pulled back from a threatened strike after a tentative last-minute contract agreement that Chicago officials acknowledged Tuesday may amount to a temporary fix and parents worried would fall apart....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press PhotoBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The story of how an Albanian priestendured decades of imprisonment, torture and forced labor during his country'scommunist crackdown against the church brought Pope Francis to tears.During the pope's 2014 visit to Tirana,Cardinal-designate Ernest Simoni moved many listeners when he described thebrutality a militant atheist regime wielded against people of every faith, andpaid tribute to God's infinite goodness, grace and love for allowing him tosurvive.Dedicating his life to drawing people away from hatredand revenge, the octogenarian priest will be one of 17 prelates elevated tocardinal in a consistory Nov. 19 at the Vatican. Of the group, 13 are eligibleto elect Pope Francis' successor in a conclave. Cardinal-designate Simoni isone of four who are older than 80 and, therefore, ineligible to vote.Cardinal-designate Simoni, whose 88th birthday is Oct.18, told Vatican Radio he heard the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to rule that racial bias in the jury room provides a limited basis for breaching the centuries-old legal principle of secrecy in jury deliberations....
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) -- People throughout Haiti's devastated southwest peninsula formed makeshift brigades Tuesday to clear debris and try to regain some semblance of their pre-hurricane lives as anger grew over the delay in aid for remote communities more than a week after the Category 4 storm hit....
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search and rescue operation, authorities said Tuesday, and thousands of people were told to get to higher ground as the flooding from Hurricane Matthew moved downstream....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court raised serious doubts Tuesday about a $399 million judgment against smartphone maker Samsung for illegally copying parts of the patented design of Apple's iPhone....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hacked emails show that Hillary Clinton's campaign was slow to grasp the seriousness of the controversy over her use of a homebrew email server and believed it might blow over after one weekend....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Hillary Clinton is bringing in Al Gore as her closer on climate change as she struggles to appeal to young voters who consider the issue a priority....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The "shackles" of civility gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the presidency "the way I want to."...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said Jesus asks us to perform good deeds with humility and reject a "cosmetics" (maquillage) religion that is merely concerned with its outward appearance and pretending to be what it’s not. The Pope was speaking at his morning Mass on Tuesday celebrated in the Santa Marta residence. Listen to this report by Susy Hodges that includes clips of the Pope's voice: The inspiration for the Pope’s homily was taken from the day’s readings of St Paul’s letter to the Galatians and the Gospel account of where Jesus rebukes a Pharisee for being totally concentrated on the outward appearance of cleanliness rather than on the inner substance of his faith. Pope Francis noted that Jesus’s answer to that same Pharisee who criticized him for not observing the prescribed washing before the meal was unequivocal.“'Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, ins...
