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Rome, Italy, Jul 29, 2016 / 12:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis sat quietly in one of Auschwitz's most ominous prison cells, praying in what had been the inhumane living space of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest martyred during the Holocaust.St. Maximilian was one of over a million people estimated to have died in the Auschwitz concentration camps, where the Pope paid a visit on July 29 during his trip to Poland. This August marks the 75th anniversary of his death.Although the majority of those incarcerated in the death camps were Jews, targeted by the Nazi regime for extermination, many of the victims were Catholics, including priests and religious sisters. St. Maximilian, a Franciscan friar, died in 1941 after asking to take the place of another prisoner who was destined for execution. The following year, Edith Stein, the German Jewish philosopher turned Catholic Carmelite nun, was also killed at Auschwitz, most likely in the gas chambers upon her arrival. The...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Elizabeth EvansBy Elizabeth Eisenstadt EvansPHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- At a timewhen the official party platform advocates for removing current legislativerestrictions on obtaining abortions, pro-life Democrats came to Philadelphiawith a counter message: You can't win big without us.Democratic candidate HillaryClinton has called for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which forbids federalfunding for most abortions and continues to be included in many federalappropriations bills for abortions. Her stance has been endorsed in the partyplatform, which also calls for eliminating the Helms Amendment, which prohibitsU.S. foreign aid from being used to fund abortion-related activities.But Kristen Day, executive directorof Democrats for Life of America, notes that since 2008, when President BarackObama launched his first term, the party has lost 11 governorships, 30 statechambers, 69 house seats, 13 seats in the U.S. Senate and 912 seats in statelegislatures.While the pro-life Democr...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesKRAKOW,Poland (CNS) -- By embracing the hunger, thirst and loneliness of others, youngpeople can touch Jesus' cross and experience the light of the resurrection,Pope Francis said. Itwas Jesus who chose to identify with people who suffer pain and anguish,especially those fleeing violence and persecution, by "agreeing to treadthe way of sorrows that led to Calvary," the pope told young men and womenJuly 29 participating in the Way of the Cross at World Youth Day in Krakow. Thereflection on Jesus' passion and death capped an emotional day that included avisit to the Auschwitz concentration camp and a stop at children's hospital inKrakow before his arrival at Blonia Park. Police stood shoulder-to-shoulder atsome crossing points into the park and would not let people pass, sending themto other entry points on the grounds. Thousands of people still were streamingto the service from the crowded streets 30 minutes into the service.Dancers,acroba...
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Six current or former state employees were charged Friday with misconduct and other crimes in the Flint water crisis, bringing to nine the number of public officials facing prosecution over the lead contamination that alarmed parents across the country....
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- The new Sandy Hook Elementary School, built to replace the one demolished after a massacre that took the lives of 20 children and six educators, features three courtyards, study spaces designed to look like treehouses and a moat-like raingarden....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- One San Diego police officer was killed and another was wounded in a shootout following a late-night traffic stop, authorities said Friday. A suspect was wounded and taken into custody a short time later and hours later police surrounded a home as they searched for man described as a possible accomplice....
MIAMI (AP) -- Mosquitoes have apparently begun spreading the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time, health officials said Friday in a long-feared turn in the epidemic that is sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Donald Trump's flurry of offhand remarks and abrupt zingers on Russia - praising Vladimir Putin, dismissing NATO - have jolted the world, not to mention the U.S. presidential campaign....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- His status as a presidential nominee barely a week old, Donald Trump is already tasked with assembling a complex transition team capable of hiring thousands of high-level government officials and crafting a detailed policy agenda should he win the presidency....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Kicking off her fall campaign for the White House, Hillary Clinton used her first post-convention rally Friday to stress the "stark choice" voters will face in November between her and Republican rival Donald Trump....
