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CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) -- Hurricane Newton shattered windows, downed trees and knocked out power in parts of the twin resorts of Los Cabos on Tuesday, but residents were spared the kind of extensive damage seen two years ago when they were walloped by a stronger storm....
San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Sep 6, 2016 / 01:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- He was only 22 years-old, and he was only there for nine months. But U.S. Senator and Democratic vice-presidential hopeful Tim Kaine credits the time he spent with a Jesuit community in Honduras as so formative and influential that it would spark the beginning of his thirty-plus-year political career.Yet far from an idyllic situtation of youthful self-searching, Kaine encountered a deeply complex and violent political scenario - one that he would later describe as "the turning point" in his life.Kaine, the former Governor of Virginia and first term Senator, was chosen by Hillary Clinton in July as her running mate for the Democratic Presidential ticket. In Kaine’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, he addressed the convention saying, “I taught kids how to be welders and carpenters.”Then switching to Spanish he repeating twice, “faith, family and work” and ...
Washington D.C., Sep 6, 2016 / 04:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the National Institutes of Health proposed federal funding of projects to possibly create a human-animal hybrid, Catholic ethicists voiced serious moral and legal concerns.“For if one cannot tell to what extent, if any, the resulting organism may have human status or characteristics, it will be impossible to determine what one's moral obligations may be regarding that organism,” Anthony Picarello and Michael Moses, general counsels for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote in Sept. 2 comments to the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy.A month ago, the NIH proposed federally-funded projects to research human/animal chimeras. The projects would involve injecting embryonic stem cells into animal embryos, with “tremendous potential for disease modeling, drug testing, and perhaps eventual organ transplant,” the NIH proposal stated.However, it recognized “ethical a...
IMAGE: CNS photo.Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyMANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- As the bodycount rises in the Philippines' war on drugs, a Catholic priest is trying tocreate a space where healing takes precedence over killing. On Sept. 1, 20 drug users surrendered topolice under the watchful eye of Father Luciano Feloni, an Argentine priest whois pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Caloocan City, on the edge ofManila. Another 20 were expected to surrender under a program the parish hasdubbed "Healing, not killing."The mass surrender -- which Father Feloniorchestrated in coordination with the police and local political leaders -- comesas drug users and pushers are being killed throughout the country in responseto an all-out assault on drugs by newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte. FatherFeloni said the killings began in the days leading up to Duterte's inaugurationJune 30. Since then, between three and five people in his parish have beenkilled every week. One victim was shot in front...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When Apple shows off its latest iPhone on Wednesday, it will answer a question it hasn't had to address in years: "What's it putting in the box?" (Besides the iPhone itself, that is.)...
A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds little evidence of Hollywood improving in the diversity of its movie characters or directors. The study has been a nearly annual effort going back to 2007, each year studying the demographics of the 100 most popular films at the North American box office. Here are some of the study's key findings f...
Despite widespread attention over diversity in the movie business, a new study finds that little is changing in Hollywood for women, minorities, LGBT people and others who continue to find themselves on the outside of an industry where researchers say inequality is "the norm."...
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago - more than 10 for every one of the country's 7 million people....
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton's handling of private emails disqualifies her to serve as president. His own temperament, Trump said, was his "single greatest asset" and not the national security danger that Clinton alleges....
PARIS (AP) -- Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant, has died more than a decade after a complex and daring operation that set the stage for dozens of similar transplants worldwide. She was 49....
