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IMAGE: CNS photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, ReutersBy MILWAUKEE(CNS) -- Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee called the violence thatbroke out in the city as part of protests over the fatal police shooting of anAfrican-American man "a self-inflicted wound.""Violenceis never tolerated. Protests are certainly the right of every American, butviolence such as looting, burning is never tolerated," Archbishop Listecki toldthe Catholic Herald in an Aug. 15 telephone interview. "It only creates aself-inflicted wound on the community."Protestersburned down six businesses in the city, including a gas station, and alsotorched a police car late Aug. 13 in response to the police shooting ofSylville K. Smith as he fled a traffic stop earlier that day.Policesaid Smith, 23, had a gun in his hand and had refused police orders to drop theweapon.FatherTimothy L. Kitzke, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's vicar general for urbanministry, told the Catholic Herald Aug. 15 that what happened Aug. 13 could belo...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) -- A wind-whipped wildfire roared through a Northern California town threatened by a devastating blaze a year ago, wiping out more than 100 homes and businesses and forcing thousands of people to flee, authorities said Monday....
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...
