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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Power-and-blood fantasy saga "Game of Thrones" ruled the Emmy nominations Thursday with a leading 23 bids, including best drama, while a real-life epic of murder and celebrity, "The People v. O.J. Simpson," was close behind with 22 nods....
CAIRO (AP) -- The Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Thursday began putting on display the country's oldest papyruses, which date back 4,500 years, detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders....
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- The founder of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba warned in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press that violence in Indian-ruled Kashmir will escalate....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Thursday for "ill-advised" public criticism of Donald Trump, promising to be more discreet in the future....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is on the verge of picking his vice presidential running mate, with top contenders told to expect a decision as early as Thursday afternoon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- On an unusually cool night for summer, Mike Perry and his crew thread the sidewalks running through Staten Island's Stapleton Houses, tracked by police cameras bolted to the apartment blocks and positioned atop poles....
Gen 18:1-10a; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42A man attending a crowded church service refused to take off his hat when asked to do so by the ushers. Others also asked him to remove his hat, but he remained obstinate. The preacher was perturbed, too, and waited for the man after the service. He told the man that the church was quite happy to have him as a guest, and invited him to join the church, but he explained the traditional decorum regarding men’s hats and said, “I hope you will conform to that practice in the future.” “Thank you,” said the man. “And thank you for taking time to talk to me. It is good of you to invite me to join the congregation. In fact, I joined it three years ago and have been coming regularly ever since, but today is the first time that anyone paid attention to me. After being an unknown for three years, today, by simply keeping on my hat on, I have had the pleasure of talking with the ushers, several o...
The Indian Social Institute (ISI) is a Jesuit-inspired centre for research, training, and action for socio-economic development and human rights in India. It was founded in 1951 in Pune, but shifted to the Indian capital, New Delhi in 1963. The ISI was the brainchild of a brilliant Jesuit priest, Fr. Jerome D'Souza an educationist who was remarkably active in the civil society of the days of Independence. He was chosen as a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly and on four occasion he was India's delegate to the United Nation's General Assembly. A man committed to political action, social concerns and national welfare, he was known among fellow nationals of all faiths for his feel for national concerns. The current executive director of ISI, New Delhi, is Fr. Denzil Fernandes, who took office last year. He was in Rome recently, and we caught up with him to know more about the Indian Social Institute. In the first of a...
Vatican City, Jul 14, 2016 / 03:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- If Jose Brochero doesn't sound like a Gaucho name, nothing does.Earlier this year, Pope Francis announced Oct. 16 as the canonization date for Blessed Brochero, a fellow countryman from Argentina also known as the “Gaucho priest.”He was beatified in Sept. 2013 by Pope Francis, who said Fr. Brochero was a priest who truly “smelled of his sheep.”Blessed Brochero was born Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero in Argentina in 1840, the fourth of ten children to Ignacio Brochero and Petrona Davila.Bl. Brochero entered seminary at the age of 16, and was ordained a priest at the age of 26 for the Archdiocese of Cordoba.As a priest, after teaching philosophy at a seminary for a few years, Fr. Brochero was assigned to the large diocese of St. Albert – 1,675 square miles with 10,000 far-flung parishioners in the rural, Great Highlands region of Argentina.Not deterred by altitude, distance or bad weather...
CHICAGO (AP) -- A candlelight vigil was held in Chicago's Federal Plaza late Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail cell after a traffic stop....
