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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina over the fatal police shooting of a black man. (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) The Statute for the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications was published on Thursday, saying its aim was "to respond to the current media reality, characterized by the presence and development of digital media and their increasing social interaction." It said this evolving situation called for a reorganization of the Apostolic See’s various media outlets in order to proceed towards a merger of them under a united management. The Statute has been approved on “an experimental basis” for three years and is part of a wider ongoing reform of the Roman Curia and the Holy See's institutions. Listen to this report by Susy Hodges: RoleThe Statute confirms that the Secretariat for Communications was established by Pope Francis in his Motu Proprio, issued on 27th June 2015, with the aim of uniting all those entities within the Apostolic See which are involved in communications, in order to respond ever better to the needs of ...
Pope Francis and leaders and representatives of 450 representatives of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism and other religions of the world said "No to War!" on Sept. 20, vowing to oppose terrorism in God's name and appealing to politicians to listen to "the anguished cry of so many innocents". They made the appeal at the end an international interreligious prayer meeting in the central Italian town of Assisi, that was home to St. Francis, the popular 13th century saint revered by many religions as a patron of peace and nature and a defender of the poor. Many of those who joined Pope Francis in appealing for peace were from Asia. Listen to a programme on the Assisi peace meeting:
Johannesburg, South Africa, Sep 22, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The unexplained deaths of three dozen mentally ill patients in a South African province show the need for action to help this vunerable population, the country’s bishops have said.“As a society, we should never forget that the lives of the mentally ill are precious before God. The lives of the mentally ill should therefore be considered to be more important than the dictates of fiscal efficiency and profit making,” the Justice and Peace Commission of the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said Sept. 19.“The families and the whole country need answers. We send our heartfelt condolences to all affected families.”Earlier this year, 36 psychiatric patients died within months of being removed from the Life Healthcare Esidimeni Centre to local NGOs and other facilities in Gauteng province.About 2,000 patients were transferred to over 120 other facilities after the contract was...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has proven to be a masterof metaphor and, as fall approached, he increasingly turned to the field ofmedicine to make his points.Of course, probably his most famous medical metaphor is hisrepeated description of the church today as a "field hospital."In his 2013 interview with the Jesuit journal La CiviltaCattolica, he said: "I see the church as a field hospital after battle. Itis useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol andabout the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds."At his early morning Mass Sept. 22, he showed that whiletriage might be his specialty, he is familiar with a range of ailments.Speaking about people who have done evil and know it, PopeFrancis said, they live "with a constant itch, with hives that don't leavethem in peace."But his strongest words were about the sins of vanity andpride. "Vanity is like an osteoporosis of the soul: the bones seem goodfrom the outside, but o...
Some of the nation's largest for-profit colleges are suffering steep declines in enrollment amid growing competition, new regulation and government pressure that led to the collapse this month of one of the industry's biggest players, ITT Technical Institute....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The United States and Russia are taking their differences over the conflict in Syria to new heights, after trading ferocious allegations of duplicity and malfeasance at the United Nations Security Council....
LINDEN, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey police officer injured in a shootout with the man suspected of setting off bombs in the New York City area is at a school to thank students for their well wishes....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Much of Puerto Rico was without electricity Thursday following a fire at a power plant that set off a broader outage across the island's aging utility grid, leaving most of the island's 3.5 million people without service....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Lamenting a "lack of spirit" between whites and blacks, Donald Trump encouraged racial unity on Thursday even as he called for one of the nation's largest cities to adopt "stop and frisk" policing tactics that have been widely condemned as racial profiling by minority leaders....
