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Washington D.C., Sep 11, 2016 / 04:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, a Catholic who is currently the junior Virginia senator, said on Saturday that he thinks the Church will eventually drop its opposition to same-sex marriage.“I think it's going to change because my church also teaches me about a creator who, in the first chapter of Genesis, surveyed the entire world, including mankind, and said, 'It is very good',” Kaine said Sept. 10, according to the Associated Press.His comments came during his keynote address at the national dinner for Human Rights Campaign, an influential LGBT advocacy group, in Washington, D.C.Kaine cited Pope Francis' “who am I to judge” comment, and then said: “I want to add: Who am I to challenge God for the beautiful diversity of the human family? I think we're supposed to celebrate it, not challenge it.”When Human Rights Campaign announced Kaine would be deliv...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Before racing in the women's Paralympic triathlon Sunday, U.S. athletes Allysa Seely, Hailey Danisewicz and Melissa Stockwell talked about it being the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They had hopes of hearing the U.S. national anthem from the podium....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Rebel factions in Syria expressed deep reservations on Sunday about the terms of a U.S.-Russian deal that seeks to restart the peace process for the war-torn country, with the leader of at least one U.S.-backed rebel faction publicly calling the offer a "trap."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton's stumbles as she left Sunday's 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York put her health at the forefront of a presidential campaign in which the two major party nominees are among the oldest ever and have disclosed limited information about their medical history....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on the 2016 race for president (all times EDT):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several hours later, her campaign revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday and advised to rest....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Rebel factions in Syria are prepared to honor a U.S.-Russian-brokered cease-fire while communicating deep reservations about its terms, according to a leader in the powerful Ahrar al-Sham militia....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday after feeling "overheated," according to her campaign. A video showed the Democratic presidential nominee slumping and being held up by three people as she was helped into a van....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 with the solemn roll call of the dead Sunday but couldn't keep the presidential campaign from intruding on what is traditionally a politics-free moment of remembrance....
(Vatican Radio) Speaking before the Marian Prayer in St Peter's Square, Pope Francis recalled Sunday’s Gospel from Luke, considered to be the chapter of Mercy.In these parables of the lost sheep, the coin, and the prodigal son the Pope explained that "Jesus wants to make us understand that God the Father is the first to have a welcoming and merciful attitude toward sinners."The Pope added that all these parables express joy and rejoicing, not sadness and sorrow.Pope Francis underlined the Gospel reading gives hope, continuing, “there is no sin in which we have fallen, from which, by the grace of God, we cannot rise again; there is no individual beyond redemption, no one is beyond redemption, because God never ceases to want our good, even when we sin”
