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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Monday that she's feeling better since falling ill at a 9/11 memorial ceremony, but she never lost consciousness and didn't think her pneumonia diagnosis was significant enough to disclose beforehand....
I love the show Gilmore Girls. It takes place in this quirky Connecticut town with a square and they have town hall meetings and everyone knows everyone's name.
Washington D.C., Sep 12, 2016 / 02:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The United States government has an opportunity to end its legal battle with the Little Sisters of the Poor and the administration must “seize that opportunity,” legal experts are maintaining.“In a nation dedicated to religious liberty, church-state conflict on this scale should be avoided whenever possible – and once started, ended as soon and as agreeably as possible,” legal counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated in Sept. 9 comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.They added that “it has now been spelled out with particular clarity how the Administration can achieve its stated policy goals without forcing those with sincerely held religious objections to assist.”The health care law, passed in 2010, ordered that “preventative care” be covered in all health plans. In regulations released later on, the Department of Health and Human Se...
Paris, France, Sep 12, 2016 / 03:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A woman was charged over the weekend by French authorities in connection with an alleged terrorist plot to attack Notre Dame cathedral with a car bomb.Ornella G. was charged Saturday with “terrorist criminal association to commit crimes against people” and “attempted assassinations as an organized gang in connection with a terrorist enterprise,” the Paris prosecutor's office announced, according to CNN.French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, declared that France is facing a “maximum threat” after a car with explosive materials was found near Notre Dame cathedral last Thursday.“We've seen it again these last few days, these last few hours and again while we are speaking. Every day, the intelligence services, the police, the gendarmerie (similar to the National Guard), every day, they are thwarting attacks, dismantling the Iraqi-Syrian networks.”This past Wednesday Sept. 7, Fre...
Munich, Germany, Sep 12, 2016 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has said he is satisfied with the papacy of Pope Francis and sees “no contradictions” between their pontificates.“Yes, there is suddenly a new freshness in the Church, a new joy, a new charisma that addresses the people, which is something beautiful. Many are thankful that the new Pope now approaches them in a new style. The Pope is the Pope, it doesn’t matter who it is,” Benedict said in his newly published collection of interviews.The collection, published as Last Testament, consists of his interviews with journalist Peter Seewald. Seewald had previously interviewed him for Salt of the Earth, God and the World, and Light of the World.Archbishop George Ganswein, Prefect of the Papal Household and personal secretary of Benedict XVI, took part in the latest book’s Sept. 12 launch with Seewald in Munich. Archbishop Ganswein’s remarks excerpted and interpreted...
Washington D.C., Sep 12, 2016 / 05:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Christians can’t be second-class citizens if they are to remain in the Middle East, and the next United States administration will need to stand up for their rights, the head of the Knights of Columbus has said.Speaking at the National Advocacy Convention 2016 for persecuted Middle Eastern Christians, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus insisted that for Christians in the Middle East, “the system of religious apartheid in the region must end.”“Our tax dollars to the region must not be used to rebuild a discriminatory system that continues to impose second-class citizenship upon religious minorities,” he added, insisting that U.S. aid “should be contingent on the application of full rights of citizenship to every citizen of Iraq and other countries in the region.”Anderson called for presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to commit themselves to up...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dianne Towalski, The VisitorBy Dianne TowalskiALBANY, Minn. (CNS) -- Agnes Imdieke awakened themorning of Sept. 3 in her apartment on the outskirts of Albany and got readyfor the day. As she did every day, she lit a candle and said a prayer for thesafe return of JacobWetterling.It's a ritual she set aside timefor each morning for the past 27 years since the 11-year-old boy was abductedfrom a rural area near his hometown of St. Joseph Oct. 22, 1989.Later that day, Agnes learned that Jacob's remains had been found in a remote area near Paynesville.Danny Heinrich confessed to his kidnapping and murder during a hearing Sept. 6in a Minneapolis courtroom, having earlier led authorities to the boy's body.Now, Imdieke's prayers have adifferent focus: bittersweet gratitude that Jacob was finally found andreturned to his family, and for healing for everyone touched by his death,especially his mother, Patty Wetterling.Her commitment to pray for Jacobgained strength thanks to h...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anybody - no matter their age or how healthy they are - can develop pneumonia. And it's possible the campaign trail's grueling schedule, with its germy hand-shaking and selfie-taking, increased Hillary Clinton's risk....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For nearly 24 hours, Donald Trump was quiet....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A cease-fire came into effect in Syria at sunset Monday in the latest attempt led by the United States and Russia to bring some quiet in the 5 1/2-year civil war....
