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BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian rebels accused government forces of launching toxic gas attacks on civilians in a town southwest of Aleppo on Tuesday. The government rejected the claim and accused the rebels of using chemical weapons themselves....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The biggest surprise Monday for 10-year-old Rainn Sheppard, competing at the Junior Olympics in Houston and far from the New York City homeless shelter she shares with her two sisters and mother, wasn't the gold medal she won in the 3,000 meters....
MIAMI (AP) -- A weather system that already has caused at least six deaths in the Dominican Republic has been designated as Tropical Storm Earl....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign. (all times EDT):...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) -- As Republican loyalists continue to flee, Donald Trump ignited new party tensions Tuesday by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or a pair of senators seeking re-election, a remarkable display of party division just three months before Election Day....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as "unfit" and "woefully unprepared" to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party's nominee, declaring "There has to come a point at which you say 'enough.'"...
(Vatican Radio) A member of the newly-established commission set up by Pope Francis to study the question of the Diaconate for women spoke of her delight over the Pope's move. Dr Phyllis Zagano, who teaches at Hofstra University in Hampstead, New York, is one of the six female members of the Commission whose formation was announced on Tuesday. She is the author of some 20 books on religious studies including several on the issue of the Diaconate for women. Dr Zagano spoke to Susy Hodges about her reaction to her appointment and explained why she feels it is such an important and positive move on the part of the Pope.Listen to the interview with Dr Phyllis Zagano, member of the Commission set up by Pope Francis to study the question of the Diaconate for women: Pope Francis had first announced in May his intention to set up such a commission to study the question of the Diaconate for women during the course of a meeting with the Superior Generals of femal...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed sadness over the death of Polish Cardinal Franciszek Macharski who died earlier Tuesday after an ilness at age 89. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: With pictures and somber yet hopefull music Polish media have begun mourning Cardinal Macharski. He held one of the top positions in Poland's Catholic church in an difficult era when the church played a leading role in opposing Communism. Poles believe that those actions helped to eventually end the Communist regime's hold on power. The popular Macharski served for many years as archbishop of Krakow, inheriting the position opened by the election of then Pope John Paul II.He was appointed Krakow archbishop in 1978 by John Paul and served in that position until 2005. He retired two months after John Paul died after a 27-year pontificate. POPE IN "PAIN" From the Vatican, Pope Francis wrote that he received the news of Macharski's death...
Rome, Italy, Aug 2, 2016 / 10:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Italian bishops' conference has issued an advisory to pilgrims, after a young Italian girl died of meningitis while she was returning home from World Youth Day in Poland.The Italian publication Corriere della Sera identifies the girl as Susanna Rufi, 19, who died Monday in Vienna, Austria, as she was returning home to Italy.“She had been preparing for WYD for a year,” recounted Fr. Alessandro, the parish priest of her local Saint Polycarp parish in Rome, according to Corriere della Sera. “She was a wonderful girl, very active in the parish,” he said, adding that she got good grades, and was active in the choir.Rufi had reported feeling ill on Sunday evening, after arriving in Vienna with some 50 young people from the parishes of Saint Polycarp and Our Lady of Good Counsel, reports the Italian agency.Meningitis is an infection-based inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
New York City, N.Y., Aug 2, 2016 / 01:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Today's feast of Our Lady of the Angels of Porziuncola and its associated indulgence is a way to focus on the importance of Mary and the Franciscan tradition in the Church, said one friar.The Aug. 2 feast is found in the Franciscan tradition, and marks the dedication of the parish church, called Porziuncola or “little portion,” which is one of those Italy's St. Francis of Assisi rebuilt in obedience to Christ's command to “rebuild my church.”“The Porziuncola is at the heart of the Franciscan journey,” Father David Convertino, the development director for the Holy Name Province of the Observant Franciscans, told CNA.“For Francis, it was his most beloved place. He lived near it with the early followers … and he loved the Porziuncola, as it was part of his devotion to Our Lady.”The Catholic Church teaches that after a sin is forgiven, an unhealthy attachment ...
