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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- He's made 18,000 parachute jumps, helped train some of the world's most elite skydivers, done some of the stunts for "Ironman 3." But the plunge Luke Aikins knows he'll be remembered for is the one he's making without a parachute. Or a wingsuit....
CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) -- Pope Francis, visiting a shrine cherished by Poles, praised native son St. John Paul II on Thursday as a "meek and powerful" herald of mercy, and honored the countless "ordinary yet remarkable people" in Poland who held firm to their Catholic faith throughout adversity in the former Communist nation....
PARIS (AP) -- Officials on Thursday identified the second man who attacked a Normandy church during a morning Mass this week, saying he is a 19-year-old from eastern France who was spotted last month in Turkey as he supposedly headed to Syria - but who returned to France instead....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Eight years ago, Barack Obama cast himself as the rare candidate who could transcend the polarizing "politics of the past" and bridge divides that had left Washington barely functioning for years. Ultimately, the gulf was too wide - if anything, the political climate in the United States worsened....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis was scheduled on Thursday to visit Jasna Góra Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, to celebrate a Mass commemorating the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland.The Monastery is the location of the famous icon, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa. There is a legend the image was made by St. Luke, and the icon has become a symbol of Poland, and revered especially by the Polish diaspora around the world.The Monastery is home to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, or the Pauline Fathers.“The icon, the blessed Madonna, is venerated not only by the Polish people, but the faithful from all the world, which was many times highlighted by John Paul II, it is still a recognizable sign of the Polish people living in many places around the world,” explained the Father General of the Order, Fr. Arnold Chrapkowski, OSPPE.Listen to the interview by Lydia O’Kane with Fr. Arnold Chrapkowski, OSPPE: This international outreach has had an eff...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis was scheduled on Thursday to visit Jasna Góra Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, to celebrate a Mass commemorating the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane is in Poland, and sent us this report: Listen: About an hour and a half outside Krakow is the monastery of Jasna Gora the most famous Marian shrine in Poland. Thousands of pilgrims come here every year to venerate the Black Madonna of Czestochowa which was reputedly painted by St. Luke the Evangelist. Many miracles have been attributed to this revered icon which has been visited in more recent times by both Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.This large monastery in the baroque style overlooks the city of Czestochowa and is home to the Pauline Friars who have been here since 1382. It even boosts its own radio station. During this World Youth Day celebration thousands of young people have being making a pilgrimage here in order to pray to Our La...
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: GOSPEL LK 12:13 - 21Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,“Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him,“Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd,“Take care to guard against all greed,for though one may be rich,one’s life does not consist of possessions.”Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do,for I do not have space to store my harvest?’And he said, ‘This is what I shall do:I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and ot...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 28, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at World Youth Day are two brothers, recently reunited.“I’m from Syria,” Yousef Astfan, 34, told CNA. “It’s been divided.”Yousef first attended World Youth Day in Madrid in 2011. Now he’s in Krakow with his brother, 25-year-old Al Astfan, a first-time attendee who loves the event.“It’s great. It’s such a great opportunity to meet people from all the world, in the name of Jesus,” Al said.Yousef explained his own thoughts about the massive Catholic youth gathering.“It gives you a very nice push for your faith, to be here to see all these Christians. Because everybody says that Europe is no more Christian,” he said.“When I come here? No, I don’t see this. I feel proud that all these Christians are here. Especially when we fight for our Christianity in Syria. Being a Christian in Syria is a curse. ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a massive overhaul of the multibillion dollar debt-collection industry on Thursday, which would restrict collectors from calling numerous times a day, require them to have more documentation on what's owed, and give people more ability to dispute their bills....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Two Holocaust survivors took to a stage at the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto this week to perform lively prewar tunes - the 91-year-old played drums and the 88-year-old was on accordion, keyboard and vocals. In the audience several elderly Christian Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust swayed and tapped their feet to songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish....
