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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to "softening" laws dealing with immigrants in the country illegally, the latest sign that the Republican presidential nominee is considering easing the hardline stance he has taken since the beginning of his campaign....
I think one of the coolest things about being a Christian is being able to recognize the good things in our lives as blessings. We believe and understand that these people, events etc. are not some random...
Rome, Italy, Aug 23, 2016 / 03:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Women’s rights activist Reggie Littlejohn is known for her fierce work fighting forced abortion and gendercide in China, often through grilling speeches given before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.However, what is less-known about Littlejohn is that before becoming a successful lawyer and founder of the Women’s Rights Without Frontiers organization, she spent six weeks working alongside a tiny, hunched-over woman in India who would become one of the greatest figures of our time.While on a yearlong break from Yale Law School, Littlejohn traveled the world alongside her husband, stopping to work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, now referred to as Kolkata, for just over a month.It was during this time that Mother Teresa not only asked Littlejohn to be her ‘Apostle of the Rosary’ during their daily holy hour, handing rosaries to everyone that entered, but invited her to join the order.A...
San Francisco, Calif., Aug 23, 2016 / 03:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A fragment from what is believed to be the True Cross of Christ, stolen from its home beneath a picture. It’s a story one would associate with medieval legends or a Dan Brown novel.However, the theft is unfortunately a very immediate - and very difficult - reality for one California parish.“The first thing we want people to know is that if anyone has it or knows anything about it – just to bring it back,” Fr. Michael Hurley, OP, pastor of St. Dominic’s Church in San Francisco told CNA. “We just want it back.”The relic stolen is a fragment of what is believed to be the True Cross of Christ, an important relic and item of devotion dating back over two millennia to the Crucifixion. Catholic tradition holds that St. Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, found the Cross during her visits to the Holy Land in the 4th Century. The fragment housed at St. Dominic’s has been ve...
IMAGE: CNS photo/CJ Gunther, EPABy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Today's "economic and political forces have led to increasingly loweredeconomic prospects for Americans without access to higher education, which ishaving a direct impact on family health and stability," said ArchbishopThomas G. Wenski of Miami.He made the comments as the author of this year's Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops.Linkingthe decline in good jobs to family woes, Archbishop Wenski said, "Over half ofparents between the ages of 26 and 31 now have children outside of a marriage,and research shows a major factor is the lack middle-skill jobs -- careers bywhich someone can sustain a family above the poverty line without a collegedegree -- in regions with high income inequality."The statement, dated Sept. 5, Labor Day, was released Aug. 22. Archbishop Wenski ischairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and HumanDevelopment."Divorcerates and the rate of single-parent households break do...
NEW YORK (AP) -- An effort to replace obsolete pay phones with Wi-Fi kiosks that offer free web surfing and phone calls has been a hit with panhandlers and the homeless, the least wired people in the city....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey signaled Tuesday it would step up its engagement in the Syrian war, as Turkish-backed Syrian rebels massed along the border to assault one of the last Syrian frontier towns held by Islamic State militants....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Wednesday fired a ballistic missile from a submarine into the sea in an apparent protest against the start of annual South Korea-U.S. military drills, Seoul's military said....
ZACHARY, La. (AP) -- Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana "even after the TV cameras leave" on a visit aimed in part at stemming campaign-season criticism that he's been slow to respond to the disaster....
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation onthe family is an example of the "ordinary magisterium" -- papal teaching-- to which Catholics are obliged to give "religious submission of willand intellect," said an article in the Vatican newspaper.Father Salvador Pie-Ninot, a well-known professor ofecclesiology, said that while Pope Francis did not invoke his teachingauthority in a "definitive way" in the document, it meets all thecriteria for being an example of the "ordinary magisterium" to whichall members of the church should respond with "the basic attitude ofsincere acceptance and practical implementation."The Spanish priest's article in L'Osservatore Romano Aug. 23came in response to questions raised about the formal weight of the pope'sdocument, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"). Forinstance, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has said on several occasions that thedocument is "a mixture of opinion and doctrine."Father Pie-Ninot said he examined th...
