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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Latest from the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
Dublin, Ireland, Aug 6, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has transferred his seminarians away from Ireland's main seminary, St. Patrick's College, after anonymous accusations emerged of a gay culture at the institution.The three seminarians, who are studying for the Archdiocese of Dublin, will instead continue their studies at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome.“There are allegations on different sides. One is that there is a homosexual, a gay culture, and that students have been using an app called Grindr,” Archbishop Martin told RTE Radio Aug. 2.This “would be inappropriate for seminarians, and not just because they are training to be celibate priests, but (because) an app like that would be something that would be fostering promiscuous sexuality, which is certainly not in any way the mature vision of sexuality one would expect a priest to understand,” he added.The archbishop also lamented that the allegations...
Derry, Northern Ireland, Aug 8, 2016 / 12:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After his death in hospital Monday morning, Bishop Emeritus Edward Daly of Derry's ministry advocating for peace during the Troubles of Northern Ireland is being remembered across Ireland.Bishop Daly was well-known for waving a blood-stained white handkerchief over one of the victims of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, a 1972 incident in which British soldiers shot at unarmed civilians protesting the British internment of more than 300 suspected Irish Republican Army sympathizers, many of whom were innocent.“Bishop Daly served, without any concern for himself, throughout the traumatic years of the Troubles, finding his ministry shaped by the experience of witnessing violence and its effects; through this dreadful period he always strove to preach the Gospel of the peace of Christ,” Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry said Aug. 8.The bishop said his predecessor had “provided an example of priestly m...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Leonardo Munoz, EPABy Tom TracyWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Witha growing number of U.S. travelers returning from abroad with the Zika virusand with several cases of Zika-related microcephaly and birth defects reportedin the U.S., the disease has inflamed the abortion debate domestically.U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. a Republicanfrom Miami, where the Zika virus has now started spreading in one neighborhoodthrough mosquito transmission, said he does not believe the Zika virus shouldbe a pretext for an infected pregnant woman to get an abortion.Rubio met in Miami Aug. 4 with Dr.Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, andFlorida's Gov. Rick Scott. The senator also was making a renewed push to callthe U.S. Congress back into session to approve funding for combating Zikadomestically and to introduce legislation that would provide U.S. troopsserving in high-risk areas with additional protections from Zika.He also reportedly told the newsmagazin...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Investigators were treating the death of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest waterslide as a "civil matter" rather than a criminal incident, a police spokesman said Monday, as the park and Kansas authorities pressed to sort out what caused the tragedy....
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- The Latest on the death of a 10-year-old boy at a Kansas City, Kansas, water park (all times local):...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- The Latest on the deadly bombing at a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta (all times local):...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani militants struck at the heart of the country's legal profession on Monday, killing a prominent attorney and then bombing the hospital where dozens of other lawyers had gathered to mourn. The twin attacks killed at least 70 people, most of them lawyers, authorities said....
DALLAS (AP) -- Twice in less than a month, a major airline was paralyzed by a computer outage that prevented passengers from checking in and flights from taking off....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his centerpiece speech on the economy, Donald Trump wrongly accused Hillary Clinton of proposing to increase middle-class taxes and blamed America's crumbling roads and bridges in part on the money spent on refugees, a minuscule expense in comparison with infrastructure....
