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HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- The Latest on the G-20 summit in China (all times local):...
Washington D.C., Sep 3, 2016 / 04:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Abortion during the late teen and early adult years raises a woman’s risk of mental health problems and may be linked to almost one in ten cases of these women’s mental disorders, a new study says.“Evidence from the United States confirms previous findings from Norway and New Zealand that, unlike other pregnancy outcomes, abortion is consistently associated with a moderate increase in risk of mental health disorders during late adolescence and early adulthood,” said the study’s abstract.The study, conducted by sociology professor Donald Paul Sullins of The Catholic University of America, was published July 22, 2016 in the peer-reviewed Sage Open Medicine journal.After adjusting for demographic differences and other factors, the study found that abortion during these years elevated a woman’s risk of mental health disorder by 45 percent.“One-eleventh of the prevalence of mental disorder...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Turning your head away from the sufferingof others is a grave sin, and simply saying some prayers or going to Mass does not make a good Christian of someone who ignores those in need , Pope Francis said.The plight of those whosuffer in the world today is a modern-day Calvary that "spurs us on tooffer ever new signs of mercy," the pope said Sept. 3 at a special audiencefor people engaged in the works of mercy, as well as for pilgrims in Rome forthe canonization of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata. "I will never tire ofsaying that the mercy of God is not some beautiful idea but rather a concreteaction," Pope Francis said. "There is no mercy without concreteness.Mercy is not doing something good while passing by; it means involving yourselfthere where there is evil, where there is sickness, where there is hunger,where there is human exploitation."Making his way around thesquare in his popemobile, the pope invited six blue-shi...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Rafael Gaglianone kicked a 47-yard field goal with 3:47 left, and Wisconsin staved off No. 5 LSU's desperate last-ditch drive for a 16-14 win on Saturday in a game that dealt an early blow to the fifth-ranked Tigers' national title hopes....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles has become the tallest building west of the Mississippi River....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Remains found in central Minnesota in recent days are that of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy who was abducted in 1989, authorities said Saturday in an announcement that provided some long-awaited answers to a mystery that has captivated a state for decades and sparked changes in sex offender laws....
DETROIT (AP) -- Donald Trump swayed to songs of worship, read scripture, and donned a Jewish prayer shawl Saturday during a visit to a predominantly black church in Detroit, where he called for a "civil rights agenda of our time" and vowed to fix the "many wrongs" facing African-Americans....
(Vatican Radio) With Mother Teresa's canonization taking place on Sunday, the Indian Bishop's Conference has called her 'a fully Indian saint', though she was born in Skopje in what became the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, general Secretary of the Indian Bishops' Conference, said in a press conference, "Mother Teresa merged the values of the Gospel with Indian values, devoting herself to the poorest of the poor. And the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said what many Indians think: Mother Teresa is 'our' saint".Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai explained to Vatican Radio's Olivier Bonell what the bishops meant when they called her 'a fully Indian saint'.Listen to the interview: Archbishop Machado said, "She is truly an Indian saint because Mother Teresa came from elsewhere to India, but once she came to India, she made India her country, in her heart."He explained that s...
(Vatican Radio) Uzbekistan has buried long-ruling President Islam Karimov on Saturday, only a day after the government announced the death of the authoritarian leader following a stroke at the age of 78. The Soviet Republic awaits a period of uncertainty amid expected infighting over a successor.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Thousands of Uzbeks lined up along the main roads of Tashkent where many threw roses as a procession of black vehicles made its way though the capital following the death of long-time President Islam Karimov. State television also showed soldiers loading a coffin onto a plane for what it described as Karimov's final journey to his hometown of Samarkand.In Samarkand, Karimov was laid to rest following an Islamic funeral ceremony -- attended by thousands of people, including foreign heads of states --on the historic Registan Square.Foreign officials, including Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Taj...
Rome, Italy, Sep 3, 2016 / 11:21 am (CNA).- As the canonization of Bl. Mother Teresa of Caluctta draws near, the son of a leading Muslim philanthropist in Pakistan praised the nun’s example, recalling how his late father had admired her and believed in learning from her example.“We should learn from her. Muslims should adopt the concept of missionary spirit. We have been negligent on many levels, not many people are involved in humanitarian mission.”These are the words of Abdul Sattar Edhi, a Muslim and one of the most well-known philanthropists in Pakistan. Often called the “Mother Teresa of Pakistan,” Edhi passed away July 8 at the age of 88.On the night he died, the Archdiocese of Karachi organized a prayer vigil in churches throughout the diocese to pray for his intentions. His funeral was attended by swarms of people from different faith backgrounds who wanted to honor him and the many social works he initiated.Born in the small village of Gujarat,...
