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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- A photograph of a crying elderly Canadian couple in wheelchairs, separated into two different care homes after 62 years of marriage because no beds were available together, has received international attention....
BEIJING (AP) -- A Canadian patient's receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation Society: A turnaround that quick indicates the organ likely came from the body of an executed prisoner....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An ex-wife of Donald Trump's new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school nearly a decade ago, according to court papers reviewed Friday by The Associated Press....
If God loves us then why do we sometimes feel so badly?
Rome, Italy, Aug 26, 2016 / 04:40 pm (CNA).- Sister Marjana Lleshi awoke in the early house of Wednesday morning to the violent shaking of the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that killed 250 people, devastating several towns in central Italy.Wounded and trapped under her bed as her convent in Amatrice crumbled to the ground around her, Sr. Lleshi thought for sure that death was imminent, and began sending messages to loved ones telling them goodbye.However, just when her hope had run out and she was ready to let go, she heard the voice of Louis, a young Columbian caregiver assisting at their home for the elderly, calling out for anyone who might still be alive – a voice she refers to as her “angel” from God.“I looked around and saw everything was crumbling,” Sr. Lleshi said in an Aug. 25 interview with SIR, the official news agency of the Italian bishops.She said she had woken up about 30 minutes after the initial shock from the earthquake around 3:30 a.m...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jonathan Bachman, ReutersBy Richard MeekBATONROUGE, La. (CNS) -- Water lapped at the heels of Father Michael Galea, steadyrain an arduous reminder of Mother Nature's unfinished business.With asadness in his voice, Father Galea, pastor at Holy Rosary Church in St. Amant,estimated that as many as 90 percent of his parishioners were impacted duringthe recent historic flooding that touched nearly every corner of the Diocese ofBaton Rouge."It'sgoing to change the whole dynamic of Holy Rosary as a parish as we know it," FatherGalea told The Catholic Commentator, the diocesan newspaper. "It's not going tobe the same. And we are going to lose quite a bit of people if they choose tomove away."Buthopefully with love and compassion and a lot of hugs we can become a family allover again. That is what is most important is for us to be together again."Comingtogether as a family, whether it is a community, church parish or simply afamily dinner, is a question many are asking in th...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The killing this week of a 10-year-old Albuquerque girl who was drugged, raped and dismembered is just the latest horrific child slaying case for New Mexico, which has the nation's highest youth poverty rate and a state government that has had highly publicized difficulties protecting children from abuse....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine's bombastic Republican governor has built a reputation on his unfiltered comments, but his obscene tirade unleashed on a liberal lawmaker prompted Democratic lawmakers Friday to warn that the governor was coming unhinged and to call for a political intervention....
DETROIT (AP) -- The U.S. is seeking to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can travel on the nation's highways....
GENEVA (AP) -- The United States and Russia said Friday they had resolved a number of issues standing in the way of restoring a nationwide truce to Syria and opening up aid deliveries, but were unable once again to forge a comprehensive agreement on stepping up cooperation to end the brutal war that has killed hundreds of thousands....
