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(Vatican Radio) The youngest son of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been released safe and well after being abducted by rival gunmen.Listen to James Blears's report: Alfredo Guzman was abducted with five other men by seven gunmen from the Jalisco new generation drug cartel in a restaurant at the international vacation resort of Puerto Vallarta, in the early hours of the morning, exactly a week ago. An unnamed relative of his confirms they were all release, after intense negotiations leading to major concessions, which haven't been specified.Meanwhile, Mexican government officials say they are investigating if municipal police in Puerto Vallarta were involved in this kidnapping. Alfredo's imprisoned father, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, led the Sinaloa drug cartel until his re-capture in January. He's fighting extradition to the United States. Both father and son are wanted there on an array of drug ...
(Vatican Radio) Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Saturday's attack on a Kurdish wedding party killed at least 54 people, many of them children, while injuring some 70 others.Putin's message came amid attempts by Moscow to improve ties with Ankara as Turkey is seen as both a strategic nation for Russia and the NATO-military alliance. Yet, it has done little to ease remaining tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: In a telegram Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday's attack in Turkey's southeastern city of Gaziantep was in his words shocking in its "cruelty and cynicism". It was reportedly carried out by a suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14. Putin said the attack once again showed that "terrorism doesn't recognize not only the laws of civilized society but also the very basic norms of human morality."The Kremlin sa...
Vatican City, Aug 22, 2016 / 11:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Benedict XVI's new memoir, a lengthy interview with German journalist Peter Seewald, is being translated into English and will be released this November.Letzte Gespräche is being translated as Last Testament by Jacob Phillips, a lecturer in theology at St. Mary's University, Twickenham. It will be published by Bloomsbury.The work is the fruit of several interviews conducted by Seewald a few months after Benedict resigned from the papacy.It touches on recent events such as the reform of the Roman Curia, his abdication, and Pope Francis, as well as serving as an overview of his life, from his childhood to his time as Bishop of Rome.It includes Benedict’s childhood under the Nazi regime, the hardships of the war and the discovery of his vocation to the priesthood, his appointment as Archbishop of Munich, and his time in the Vatican prior to his election to the papacy. It also covers his first few days as success...
Vatican City, Aug 22, 2016 / 12:36 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis commended the sacrament of confession as the prime means of encountering God's mercy in his message sent Monday to Italy's National Liturgical Week, which is being held in Gubbio.In Confession “there is fulfilled the encounter with the re-creating mercy of God whence come new women and men who announce the good life of the Gospel by a life which is reconciled and reconciling,” the Pope said in a message signed by the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and sent Aug. 22 to Bishop Claudio Maniago of Castellaneta, president of Italy's Center for Liturgy.The National Liturgical Week is focusing this year on “liturgy as a place of mercy.”Pope Francis noted that this theme “helps one perceive that all the liturgy is a place where mercy is encountered and welcomed in order to be given; a place where the great mystery of reconciliation is made present, announced, cel...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- In the chapel of the first house BlessedTeresa of Kolkata established in Rome, Father BrianKolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity talks about her life, mixing the concrete and even mundane withthe spiritual and even mystical."She was very human -- she loved chocolate, she loved icecream," the priest said. At the same time, her letters to her spiritualdirectors make it clear "she's among the great mystics of thechurch," having experienced the sweetness of hearing Jesus' voice and,later, the desolation of feeling he had abandoned her."Mother Teresa was no plastic saint," said FatherKolodiejchuk, who is superior general of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers andpostulator of Blessed Teresa's sainthood cause. Mother Teresa was a "veryconcrete, feet on the ground" organizer and hands-on minister to thepoorest of the poor, he said.The priest, a native of Canada, spoke to Catholic NewsService Aug. 19 at the home Mother Teres...
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgian musician Toots Thielemans, who turned the lowly harmonica into a virtuoso jazz instrument during an illustrious career that saw him perform with such legends as Charlie Parker, has died. He was 94....
Ryan Lochte lost three major sponsors when swimsuit company Speedo USA, clothing giant Ralph Lauren and skin-care firm Syneron-Candela announced in quick succession Monday they were dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery....
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A defiant Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that he again restored the voting rights of about 13,000 felons who served their time after his previous attempt was thwarted by Republican lawmakers and the state Supreme Court....
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that he thought he had just a few weeks to live during his battle with cancer a year ago....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey vowed Monday to fight Islamic State militants at home and to "cleanse" the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding, an attack that came amid recent gains by Syrian Kurdish militia forces against the extremists in neighboring Syria....
