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ABINGDON, Va. (AP) -- In the 2016 presidential campaign, it's long been an article of faith: The rules of political gravity don't apply to Donald Trump....
Washington D.C., Aug 10, 2016 / 10:17 am (CNA).- Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was met with heated criticism after suggesting that a Trump administration may ban Christian and Jewish refugees fleeing from terrorism.Speaking on a conservative radio show Monday, Pence was asked about his support for religious liberty in light of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s previous proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.Pence responded that a general halt on immigration from certain countries would be “appropriate” for security concerns.“The position that Donald Trump is advocating today is that we should temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, which I think is altogether fitting and appropriate,” he said.“The simple fact is that both our Homeland Security and the FBI have said there are countries like Syria where people are coming in through routine means, the ref...
Vatican City, Aug 10, 2016 / 11:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Bonifacio Buzzi, a Brazilian priest convicted of child abuse and who was mentioned in the Oscar-winning film ‘Spotlight,’ committed suicide in his prison cell over the weekend.According to Reuters, Fr. Buzzi, 57, hung himself with a sheet inside his jail cell in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Aug. 7 after having been arrested Friday.In 1995 the priest was found guilty of abusing several youth in a mental hospital, and sentenced to four years of house arrest. In 2004, he was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy in Mariana, Minas Gerais and was jailed from 2007-2015 for the crime.He was arrested Aug. 5 in the southern state of Santa Catarina following criminal complaints that he had molested two more boys, aged 9 and 13, and taken back to Minas Gerais.The Vatican was in the process of taking action against the priest, but the process had not yet concluded at the time of his death.Fr. Buzzi was among the c...
Vatican City, Aug 10, 2016 / 12:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Each of us must respond to the gift of mercy in our hearts by getting up and putting mercy into action, Pope Francis said Wednesday.Speaking about a bishop who had in his cathedral one Holy Door of mercy for entering and one for exiting, Pope Francis said: “Let us also do the same with the journey that goes from the heart to the hands.”“Let us enter the church through the door of mercy, to receive the forgiveness of Jesus, who tells us: ‘Arise! Go, go!’ And with this ‘Go!’ – on foot – let us leave through the exit door,” he continued.Pope Francis gave this reflection at the end of his General Audience in the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall Aug. 10.Pope Francis reflected on the pain of the mother of the young boy who died in Luke 7 and the compassion that Christ felt for her, saying it is the mother’s great pain which moved Christ to perform the miracle of rev...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis "snuck" out ofthe Vatican Aug. 9 for a drive, a walk in the woods and lunch with an Italianbishop at a small convent.Long after the pope had returned to the Vatican from twosmall towns near Rieti -- about 50 miles northeast of Rome -- the Vaticanconfirmed the pope had made a "private visit" to the area.According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis was accompanied byBishop Domenico Pompili of Rieti in his visits to a convent of the Sisters ofthe Reparation of the Holy Face in Carsoli and the Franciscan convent of St.Filippa Mareri in Borgo San Pietro.A local newspaper, writing about the visit to Carsoli, saidPope Francis greeted each of the sisters before heading to their chapel to praywith them and Bishop Pompili. After the prayers, the pope and bishop went for awalk around the wooded, park-like property, returning for lunch at noon sharp."He tasted and appreciated all the dishes prepared bythe sisters and complimented them," according t...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- After he escaped unharmed from the burning wreckage of an Emirates airplane that had crash-landed in Dubai, Mohamed Basheer already considered himself lucky....
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- U.S.-backed Libyan forces said on Wednesday they have taken over the Islamic State group's headquarters in Sirte, the militants' final bastion in Libya, breaking a weeks-long stalemate with the help of U.S. airstrikes....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new report on Guantanamo detainees tells the stories of former al-Qaida bomb makers and bodyguards as well as low-level militant cooks and medics who have been transferred or cleared for release - despite fears they are at risk of returning to battle and many after being held without charge for more than 14 years at the military prison the president wants to close....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday during the General Audience said God is telling everyone to “Rise up,” and that the Holy Door of the Jubilee is the door where the pain of humanity and the compassion of God meet.The Holy Father was recounting the story of the Widow whom Jesus met at the city gate of Nain, which the Pope compared to the Holy Door. She was leaving the city in the funeral procession of her son, whom Jesus raised from the dead with the words “Rise up!”“The passage of Luke's Gospel we have heard presents us with a truly great miracle of Jesus, the resurrection of a young boy,” – Pope Francis said – “Yet, the heart of this story is not a miracle, but Jesus' tenderness towards the mother of this boy. Here, mercy takes the name of great compassion towards a woman who had lost her husband and now travels to the cemetery with her only son. The great pain of this mother moves Jesus and causes the miracle ...
The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has made a last-minute plea urging Zambians to desist from violence as they go to the polls. In a statement released, in Lusaka ahead of voting Thursday, Lusaka’s Archbishop and President of ZCCB, Telesphore-George Mpundu, encouraged Zambians to turn out in numbers and vote for a President that they consider professionally competent on political, economic and social programmes.The election is seen as too tight to call between the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party led by President Edgar Lungu and the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) led by Hakainde Hichilema. There has been an unprecedented climate of violence and intimidation between the two rival political parties which could affect voter turn-out.Zambian voters for the first time will each have a handful of ballot papers as they are asked to elect a president, vice president, members of parliament, councillors and give a yes or no vote to an amendment ...
