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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Thousands of people in southern Louisiana hunkered down in shelters Monday, forced out of their homes by intense flooding that took many people by surprise....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- City leaders blamed outside agitators Monday after a second straight night of violence wracked Milwaukee's mostly black north side in protest at the fatal shooting of a black man by police....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tempers are rising in America, along with the temperatures....
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Donald Trump called Monday for "extreme vetting" of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, vowing to block those who sympathize with extremist groups or don't embrace American values. He said the policy would first require a temporary halt in immigration from dangerous regions of the world....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday expressed his hope women enslaved to the “arrogance of the powerful” will be allowed to have a life of “peace, justice, and love.”The Holy Father was speaking during his Angelus address for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary.“The Assumption of Mary is a great mystery that pertains to all of us, regarding our future;” Pope Francis said.“The exultation of this humble girl from Galilee, expressed in the canticle of the Magnificat, becomes the song of all mankind, who is pleased to see the Lord reach down to all men and all women, lowly creatures, and take them with him in into heaven,” the Pope said.“The Canticle of Mary also leads us to think about many actual sad situations, in particular those women overwhelmed by the weight of life and the drama of violence; of women who are slaves to the arrogance of the powerful; the girls forced into inhumane work; the women forced to surrender in...
Retired Catholic Archbishop Raphael Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, the champion of the cause of Christians who bore the brunt of one of the worst Christian persecutions India has ever witnessed in modern times, expired on August 14. The 82-year old archbishop, who led the archdiocese for over 30 years, died of colon cancer at the Holy Spirit Hospital in Mumbai. "The Church in India mourns the death of Archbishop Raphael Cheenath ... who led the archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in the most traumatic period for the Catholic Church, in India,” recalled Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai and President of the Latin Bishops in India (CCBI). The Divine Word archbishop campaigned ceaselessly for the victims and survivors of the 2008 anti-Christian carnage in Odisha’s state’s Kandhamal District and his efforts let to the Supreme Court of India upholding on Aug. 2 his Public Interest Litigation for enhanced r...
Vatican City, Aug 15, 2016 / 03:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis marked the feast of the Assumption of Mary by praying for the dozens of people massacred over the weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and decrying the “shameful silence” which surround these attacks.“To the Queen of Peace, who we contemplate today in heavenly glory, I wish to entrust once again the anxieties and sufferings of the people who, in many parts of the world, are innocent victims of persistent conflict,” the Pope said during Monday's Angelus address.Saturday's attacks in the DRC's North Kivu province have long been “perpetuated in shameful silence, without even drawing our attention,” he said, and its victims include the “many innocent people who have no influence on global opinion.”“May Mary obtain for everyone sentiments of understanding, and a desire for harmony!”At least 36 civilians were killed late Saturday during...
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 15, 2016 / 09:34 am (CNA).- In his latest column for the Philly Catholic Archdiocesan paper, Archbishop Chaput shared some of his personal thoughts on the upcoming presidential election, and implored Catholics to take the time to pray and form their consciences before voting.This year is a particularly interesting one for Catholics, Archbishop Chaput said, because both major candidates for president “have astonishing flaws.”The archbishop, himself a long-time registered Independent, said this realization is both “depressing and liberating at the same time.”“Depressing, because it’s proof of how polarized the nation has become. Liberating, because for the honest voter, it’s much easier this year to ignore the routine tribal loyalty chants of both the Democratic and Republican camps,” he wrote.“Both major candidates are – what’s the right word? so problematic – that neither is clearly better...
IMAGE: CNS/Alex BrandonBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- On the Aug. 6 feast of theTransfiguration of the Lord, Auxiliary Bishop MarioE. Dorsonville of Washington addressed a crowd of largely Salvadoran immigrants at the Basilicaof the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. They were there to markthe feast that is the main national holiday in the predominantly Catholiccountry of El Salvador, whose name in Spanish means "the savior," referring toJesus Christ. Many of them arrived in the U.S. in the 1980s during the country'scivil war and some more recently because of the violent situation in theregion.Bishop Dorsonville told the crowd that when he was censingthe image depicting the transfiguration of Christ, an image revered by CatholicSalvadorans, he noticed the statue's arms spread out in a welcoming pose. Heused the image to address immigration."It gave me joy to see the open arms," Bishop Dorsonvillesaid of the statue. "A person who closes his arms is not a Christian. A ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Narong Sangnak, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the feast of theAssumption just three days after visiting a group of young women rescued fromthe sex trade, Pope Francis prayed for all exploited women and girls."The Lord bows down to the lowly in order to raise themup as is proclaimed in the Magnificat," Mary's hymn of praise to God, thepope said Aug. 15."Mary's canticle leads us to think of many painfulsituations today and particularly those of women overpowered by the burdens oflife and the drama of violence, women who are slaves of the abuse of thepowerful, girls forced into inhuman work, women forced to surrender body andspirit to the greed of men," Pope Francis told thousands of peoplegathered to pray the Angelus with him.The pope prayed that exploited women soon would be able tolive "a life of peace, justice and love in expectation of the day they finallywill feel held by hands that do not humiliate them, but tenderly lift them andlead them...
