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New York City, N.Y., Oct 7, 2016 / 04:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The United Nations Security Council has selected committed Catholic and human rights advocate as the nominee for Secretary General of the international organization.“I have two words to describe what I'm feeling now – gratitude and humility,” António Guterres said.“Humility about the huge challenges ahead of us, the terrible complexity of the modern world. But it is also humility that is required to serve the most vulnerable, victims of conflicts, of terrorism, rights violations, poverty and injustices of this world.”Should Guterres' nomination be approved by the 193-member UN General Assembly, he will begin his tenure as UN Secretary General Jan. 1, 2017. Guterres will replace outgoing secretary general Ban Ki-moon, who has served two five-year terms.From 2005 to the end of 2015, Guterres ran the UN refugee agency, where he has oversaw aid and assistance for more than 60 milli...
By Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Most people who keep an eye on life issues know the shorthand aboutthe Hyde Amendment -- that it bars the federal government from fundingabortions through Medicaid.But theamendment does more than that -- although not everything pro-lifers may wish itcould do -- and with the amendment's 40th anniversary Sept. 30 just passed, itmay do well to remember how it all came about.It wasin 1973 that the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton cases were decided by the SupremeCourt, which ruled that women could obtain abortions virtually on demand. From that point, politicians and citizens opposed to abortion in bothparties were looking for ways to overturn the decision, or at least placerestrictions on abortion.It wasa time that "we didn't know which part would claim to be the party of life,"said Michael New, a visiting professor of education at Ave Maria University, duringa Sept. 29 anniversary observance in Washington sponsored by the March for Life organization.Th...
HOUSTON (AP) -- Handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, the chief executive of an internet site authorities accuse of being "a hub for the illegal sex trade" waived extradition to California on Friday, and his attorney vowed to fight the "trumped up" sex trafficking and money laundering charges he faces....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- By winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Juan Manuel Santos got a big boost Friday in his efforts to save an agreement seeking to end Colombia's half-century conflict....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump blurted out lewd and sexually charged comments about women as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. The Republican presidential nominee issued a rare apology Friday, "if anyone was offended."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. bluntly accused Russia on Friday of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the upcoming presidential election....
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew spared Florida's most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South's most historic and picturesque cities with ruinous flooding and wind damage as it pushed its way up the coastline....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump reeled Friday under a barrage of campaign missteps and scandalous revelations of lewd comments he made about women several years ago, undermining the Republican's attempts to steady a presidential bid at risk of imploding....
This morning in the Holy See Press Office a press conference was held to present the music CD of the Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir: “Palestrina. Missa Papæ Marcelli – Motets”, a monographic work on Pierluigi de Palestrina edited by Deusche Grammophon. The panel was composed of Archbishop George Gänswein, prefect of the Papal Household; Msgr. Massimo Palombella, director of the Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir; Dickon Stainer, president and chief executive officer of Global Classics Universal Music Group International; Clemens Trautmann, president of Deustche Grammophon; and Mirko Gratton, director of the Classical Music Department of the Universal Group.Archbishop Gänswein explained that it was not by chance that the second CD by the Pontifical Sistine Chapel Choir contained the famous Missa Papæ Marcelli and several motets on the theme of mercy, selected to emphasise also musically the extraordinary Jubilee convened by the Holy Father. &ld...
New York City, N.Y., Oct 7, 2016 / 01:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced Thursday that the New York archdiocese is establishing an independent compensation program for victims of sexual abuse committed by clergy of the local Church.“This program will, please God, continue to help bring a measure of peace to those who have suffered abuse by a member of the clergy of the archdiocese,” the Archbishop of New York wrote in an Oct. 6 letter to the faithful.“While the Church … has made great strides in dealing vigorously with clergy accused of abuse, and in preventing acts of abuse through our Safe Environment programs, we continue to hear from victim-survivors that more needs to be done to reach out to those who have been harmed in the past.”He added, “As this Year of Mercy nears its conclusion, it is fitting and proper that we take this opportunity to ask forgiveness for mistakes that have been made by those – only a tiny p...
