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DURANT, Miss. (AP) -- Friends and colleagues who knew two nuns killed in their Mississippi home are gathering Sunday to remember them, as authorities continue to investigate the harrowing crime that shocked people in the small communities where the women committed their lives to helping the poor....
Thousands of people turned out to welcome gymnasts Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez back to their hometowns Saturday after they wowed the judges in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro....
DURANT, Miss. (AP) -- A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday, in the latest twist to a crime that has horrified people in the small communities where the women served....
They say parenthood gives us the opportunity to become saints. Ok, I say that.
Vatican City, Aug 27, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Even her friend of more than 30 years, Father Sebastian Vazhakala, did not know Mother Teresa had conversations with and visions of Jesus before forming the Missionaries of Charity.It wasn't until after her death, for the vast majority of people, that this part of Mother Teresa's spiritual life was uncovered. “It was a big discovery,” Missionary of Charity priest, Fr. Vazhakala told CNA. When Mother Teresa's cause for canonization was opened, just two years after her death in 1997, documents were found in the archives of the Jesuits in Calcutta, with the spiritual director and another of Mother Teresa's close priest friends, and in the office of the bishop, containing her accounts of the communications.Fr. Vazhakala, who co-founded the contemplative branch of the Missionaries of Charity alongside Mother Teresa, said he has a document handwritten by Mother Teresa where she discusses what Jesus s...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Donald Trump warned Saturday of a "war on the American farmer," telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton "wants to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies....
(Vatican Radio) Russian emergency officials say at least 17 migrant workers have been killed in a fire that swept through a printing plant's warehouse in Moscow. Saturday's fire in the northeast of Russia's capital has renewed concerns over safety standards in the country and the plight of migrants.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Rescue services rushed as smoke illuminated the skies over parts of Moscow. But they arrive too late to save many lives. The Russian Emergencies Ministry confirmed that as the fire was being extinguished, firefighters discovered a room cut off by a massive blaze in this printing plant's warehouse.After breaking a wall into the room they found more than a dozen bodies. Those who died were all migrant workers from the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.Ilya Denisov, who heads the Moscow branch of the emergency services, said the fire was almost certainly caused by a faulty lamp on the first floor of the warehouse. "W...
Bogotá, Colombia, Aug 27, 2016 / 12:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Just as God trusts us and expects us to change, we must treat others “never based on fear but on the hope God has in our ability to change,” Pope Francis said in Saturday remarks that rejected the despair of a fractured culture. “Which will it be: hope for change, or fear?” the Pope asked a gathering of Catholic leaders Aug. 27. “The only thing acting out of fear accomplishes is to separate, to divide, to attempt to distinguish with surgical precision one side from the other, to create false security and thus to build walls.” By contrast, acting on the basis of hope for change and conversion is something that “encourages and incites.” He said hope “looks to the future, it makes room for opportunity, and it keeps us moving forward.” Fear-based action bespeaks guilt and punishment, while action based on the hope of transformation “bespeaks trusti...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is refusing to stand for the national anthem before games because he believes the United States oppresses African Americans and other minorities....
CHICAGO (AP) -- NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin was an innocent bystander, police said, pushing her baby in a stroller near a Chicago school where she intended to register her children when she was fatally shot Friday....
