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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- A jury recommended 2 1/2 years in prison for a white former police officer convicted of voluntary manslaughter on Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man who had been accused of shoplifting....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Hoping to capitalize on the criticism battering Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has begun portraying support for her candidacy as a patriotic duty of voters. She's broadening her message and appealing directly to Republicans to keep him out of the White House....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama vigorously denied on Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters....
(Vatican Radio) The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is on Friday, but as things stand today: is Rio De Janeiro ready to host the biggest extravaganza in sport?. Listen to the report by James Blears: Hundreds of protesters were met with Police tear gas and pepper spray as the Olympic torch arrived in Rio, by boat after a three month odyssey around Brazil. It`s estimated that the Olympics, which have happened just two years after the soccer World Cup, will cost Brazil in excess of fifteen billion dollars. That`s less than other venues in other countries, but Brazil isn`t economically match fit, with a deep recession matched by a political crisis, which has seen President Dilma Rousseff ousted. Those Brazilians who are demonstrating argue that the money expended could have been better directed and more wisely used, by helping the poor, who live in their teaming overcrowded thousands, in the poor run down favelas, skirt...
(Vatican Radio) At the beginning of every month Pope Francis makes known his prayer intention for the month to come.In August it has to do with Sport and his desire that sports may build a culture of encounter among everyone for a world of peace.In July the Pope’s prayer intention was for Respect for Indigenous Peoples.In a video message he said that he prays that “indigenous peoples, whose identity and very existence are threatened, will be shown due respect”.Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni looked into the question of the rights of Indigenous and Tribal peoples with Lewis Evans who works for Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights.Listen: Pointing out that this is not the first time Pope Francis has called for respect for indigenous people’s rights, Lewis Evans says “it is great the Pope is putting the issue at the heart of his agenda”.Commenting on the Pope’s words when he says &...
Assisi, Italy, Aug 4, 2016 / 11:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The path to heaven is through forgiveness and pardon of those who have offended us, just as we have received salvation through the love and forgiveness of the Father, Pope Francis said today in Assisi.“Today I would like, before all else, to recall the words that, according to an ancient tradition, Saint Francis spoke in this very place, in the presence of all the townsfolk and bishops: ‘I want to send you all to heaven!’”“What finer thing could the Poor Man of Assisi ask for, if not the gift of salvation, eternal life and unending joy, that Jesus won for us by his death and resurrection?” said Pope Francis during his meditation at the Porziuncola at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels.“We are never alone in living the faith; we do so in the company of all the saints and of our loved ones who practiced the faith with joyful simplicity and bore witness to it by their lives. Ther...
Toronto, Canada, Aug 4, 2016 / 01:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Middle East Christians need help to survive, and leaders in the relief effort have outlined what the average Catholic can do.“They can speak out. They should talk with their parish. And they should pray,” Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, told CNA Aug. 3.Echoing his call to action was Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil in northern Iraq.“Pray for them. Tell their story. Raise awareness about persecution. Give aid,” he said. The archbishop encouraged Americans and Canadians to try to put pressure on their politicians “to really adjust the whole political vision of America, Canada and the Middle East.”The plight of Middle East Christians and other minorities was a major focus of the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus held in Toronto. Several Middle East bishops attended alongside other bishops and the order’s delegates from around the world.The c...
Washington D.C., Aug 4, 2016 / 01:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Supreme Court on Thursday put a temporary halt to a federal judge’s ruling that a student who identifies as transgender must have access to either gender’s public school restroom.“I am pleased the Supreme Court blocked this ruling before children return to school,” said Mat Staver, founder and chair of the legal group Liberty Counsel.In a 5-3 decision, the Court put a stay on a federal court’s ruling that the Gloucester (Va.) County School Board must allow a student who was born a girl and identifies as a boy to use the boys’ bathroom at school. The stay will last until the Supreme Court either refuses to hear the case or hears and decides the case.The student is protected under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity,” because of federal interpretations of the statute to inclu...
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 -- which included dozens of bishops -- 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 a...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Even if only for two weeks, can "Faster-Higher-Stronger" overpower deadlier, scarier and bloodier? Can the Olympic Games still offer the world momentary levity, distract from terror, shootings, poverty and other worries in globally grim times? If not, what use is the multibillion-dollar celebration of youthful endeavor and mostly niche sports?...
