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Charlotte, N.C., Sep 23, 2016 / 03:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Father Patrick Winslow is a priest at a Catholic church in Charlotte’s University City neighborhood.After a police shooting left a man dead and roused hundreds of people in protest amid conflicting stories, he’s been thinking about what he can say to his flock.“I think they need to hear a simple message of prayer, of charity, and reassurance that we are called to be a light in the midst of many darknesses in this world,” Father Patrick Winslow told CNA.“If there were a Christian way forward it would simply be one of drawing closer together and listening and relating, with a sense of vulnerability,” he said.Father Winslow is pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Charlotte’s University City neighborhood, which surrounds the main campus of University of North Carolina-Charlotte.In an apartment complex less than a mile from the church, a police shooting rocked the community.Keith Lamont...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The more assets the Patriots lose this season, the better they seem to play....
BOSTON (AP) -- Did notorious gangster Al Capone have a soft spot? An intimate letter he penned from prison suggests the ruthless racketeer could handle tenderness almost as skillfully as his Tommy Gun....
ROSETTA, Egypt (AP) -- A senior Egyptian official says a total of 115 bodies were pulled out of the waters off the Egyptian coast, three days after hundreds of migrants heading to Europe drowned....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A bombing campaign in rebel-held districts of Syria's Aleppo city intensified Friday, targeting several neighborhoods and centers of the award-winning volunteer civil defense group known as the White Helmets, as the government announced a new offensive in the area....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Two police shootings, both recorded by police. In one city, the police recordings were released almost immediately and protests remained calm. In the other, the chief has so far refused to provide the videos to the public and violent protests have wrought destruction in the heart of the city. Two different outcomes that raise some key questions: How soon are police obligated to release the recordings and why might they keep a lid on it?...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A third night of protests over a fatal police shooting in Charlotte gave way to quiet streets as a curfew enacted by the city's mayor ended early Friday....
(Vatican Radio) The Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh will celebrate a Thanksgiving Mass this Saturday evening for all those who have been workers of mercy during this Jubilee year.The Archbishop has invited people to share with him the names and work of those who put the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into action in their daily lives so they can be remembered at the celebration.Speaking to Vatican Radio’s Chris Altieri, Archbishop Martin explained more about the Mass and the Year of Mercy in his Archdiocese.Listen: “We’ve been very taken by Pope Francis’ words at the canonization of St Teresa of Calcutta”, said Archbishop Martin, “that she was an icon of mercy and also she was a model of holiness and using that as a springboard, I’ve been encouraging people throughout the diocese and indeed throughout Ireland to think about those people around them who are icons of Mercy…because as we know...
(Vatican Radio) The opposition coalition in Venezuela is planning sustained street protests, after a ruling by The National Electoral Council, not to allow a Referendum on the Presidency of Nicolas Maduro this year.Listen to the report by James Blears: Venezuela`s National Electoral Council says there can only be a Referendum on the rule of President Nicolas Maduro, towards the end of next year. Also, rather than a set target figure, the signatures of at least 20 percent of the voters in each and every State in Venezuela would be required. This in effect means that the January 10th deadline will be missed. After that day, even if the vote goes against Nicolas Maduro, his Vice President would step up to rule until the term ended in 2018. The opposition is now planning mass street protests to increase the pressure on President Maduro, who`s vowing NOT to be forced out. Henrique Capriles who lost the Presidential Electi...
Phoenix, Ariz., Sep 23, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has not changed Catholic practice on Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried. Rather, his goal is to help welcome them to the Church, Phoenix’s Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted has said.The Pope gives “special attention to those who walk on the edge of despair” because of personal failures, family problems, and “the complex and contradictory situations in which they find themselves now,” Bishop Olmsted said in his Sept. 18 column for The Catholic Sun.The bishop considered Pope Francis' 2016 apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” especially as it concerns couples in irregular situations like the divorced and remarried.The exhortation does not advocate the reception of Holy Communion for those who are divorced and remarried, he said.“Pope Francis specifically calls those in this situation ‘to seek the grace of conversion’,” the Phoenix bishop sai...
