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MIAMI (AP) -- Jessica Ardente waited 36 years to have her first baby. Her parents will visit in two weeks to watch their grandson's ultrasound. There are cribs and car seats to shop for, a nursery to decorate, and bottles, diapers and clothes to buy....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A $400 million pallet of cash delivered to the Iranian government at the same time a complicated nuclear deal was settled and four Americans were released was unrelated and not a ransom, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melania Trump obtained a work visa before she modelled professionally in the United States in the mid-1990s, her former modeling agent told The Associated Press. That appeared to back up her statements as recently as Thursday that she adhered to U.S. immigration laws as she went from a Slovenian model years later to an American citizen....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Back on the defensive, Donald Trump's campaign chief acknowledged conflict inside Trump Tower on Thursday as anxious Republicans struggled to shift voters' attention to Hillary Clinton's record on foreign policy....
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, yet when they asked country officials the following month what happened to the vaccines, they discovered that about 1 million doses had mysteriously disappeared....
The Constant Lievens Academy of Health Sciences and Hospital (CLAHS) at Mandar, near Ranchi, the capital of the northern Indian state of Jharkhand, is destined to be a medical college and hospital in the heartland of a far-flung tribal region where healthcare for the vast number of its poor and marginalized is a luxury. The project of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), named after a pioneering Belgian Jesuit missionary in Ranchi, was inaugurated at a ceremony on Nov. 7, 2015, in the presence of CBCI officials, where Jharkhand State chief minister, Raghubar Das was the chief guest. The new venture is envisioned in the pattern of the CBCI’s prestigious St. John’s Medical College in Bangalore. To know more about the Constant Lievens Academy of Health Sciences and Hospital, we talked to Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas of Ranchi, the Chairman of the Executive Committee CBCI Society for Medical Education – North India.&...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis made a private pilgrimage on Thursday to the Italian town of Assisi and spoke about the importance of forgiveness, saying only the path of forgiveness can truly renew the Church and the world. He lamented that “too many people are caught up in resentment and harbour hatred because they are incapable of forgiving.” “These people,” he went on, “ruin their own lives and the lives of those around them.” The Pope’s words came during an address delivered inside the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi after earlier going to pray in silence inside the small Porziuncola chapel where the Italian saint founded the Franciscan order in the 13th century. The purpose of Pope Francis’ pilgrimage there was to mark the 800th anniversary of the “Pardon of Assisi” during this Jubilee Year of Mercy. Please find below a translation into English of Pope Francis’ prepared remarks insid...
Tension prevailed at Tarapet in the city on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday when the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) authorities faced resistance from the clergy and lay people for demolishing a portion of the Roman Catholic church St. Peter's Cathedral as part of the road-widening project. The church was built more than 100 years ago and is of undisputed cultural and artistic value.Hundreds of Catholics, supported by opposition parties, staged a protest at the church on Monday morning even as VMC staff returned to the site to complete the demolition process. They wondered why the VMC failed to serve a notice on church authorities before embarking on pulling down the structure.Sources said VMC officials and workers came with earth-movers and demolished a wall and a complex adjacent to the church. The Catholic fraternity opposed the move arguing that the alignment of the road should have been changed as the religious structure, which was built in 1882, has a h...
By Michael SwanTORONTO (CNS) -- Cardinal MarcOuellet, whose writings were once strongly identified with resistance to anychange to the ban on Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics,has given a ringing endorsement to "Amoris Laetitia," the apostolicexhortation by Pope Francis that sums up two synods on the family."In all honesty, I thinkthat controversies around 'Amoris Laetitia' are understandable," Cardinal Ouellet,head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, told about 2,000 Knights ofColumbus gathered in Toronto for their annual convention.But Cardinal Oullet said ratherthan demand clarifications, his audience should reread the 250-page documentwith its 400 footnotes."It is a document worthreading and re-reading slowly," he said. "Especially Chapter 4 onlove."As the 2015 Synod of Bishops onthe family approached, Cardinal Ouellet re-published and updated his 2007 book,"Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of Marriage and the Family forthe New Evangelization...
By ASSISI, Italy (CNS) -- Celebrating how God's mercy has been experiencedfor 800 years in a tiny stone church in Assisi, Pope Francis said people needto experience God's forgiveness and start learning how to forgive others."Too many people are caught up in resentment and harborhatred because they are incapable of forgiving. They ruin their own lives andthe lives of those around them rather than finding the joy of serenity andpeace," the pope said Aug. 4 during an afternoon visit to the Basilica ofSt. Mary of the Angels.Before speaking about the importance of confession andforgiveness, Pope Francis set a bouquet of red and white roses on the altar andprayed silently for 10 minutes in the Portiuncola, a stone chapel in the middleof the basilica.The abandoned ninth-century Benedictine chapel was entrustedto St. Francis of Assisi in the early 1200s. When St. Francis felt God callinghim to rebuild the church, he first thought he meant the little chapel.St. Francis restored the chapel in...
