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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Steve Daines of Montana will be fly-fishing with his wife....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will keep his focus on reducing tensions between police departments and the communities they serve as he moves from an extraordinary closed-door meeting at the White House's executive offices to a nationally televised town hall airing Thursday....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Police in Dallas were the first in the nation to use a robot to deliver and detonate a bomb to kill a suspect, but other law enforcement agencies are willing and able to follow suit, including some that even have trained for the day when they'd have to do so....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The final moments before Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul revolved around a gun he was licensed to carry, trained to use safely and instructed to tell authorities about when stopped....
NEW YORK (AP) -- On an unusually cool night for summer, Mike Perry and his crew thread the sidewalks running through the Stapleton Houses, tracked by police cameras bolted to the apartment blocks and positioned atop poles....
So what is it, carry my cross or let him carry....
Brussels, Belgium, Jul 13, 2016 / 02:52 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religion classes in Belgium’s French-speaking primary and secondary schools will be cut in half starting in October 2016 and replaced with a weekly hour of citizenship classes.Critics worry that the new classes will promote abortion and homosexuality, and that the change could end up pushing teachers with a religious education or background out of the schools.The decision was announced by the Belgian government in a July 7 decree, despite the fact that 97 percent of students had said they wanted the religion classes to be maintained.Last month, amid debate over the measure, the Belgian Bishops Conference released a statement emphasizing the importance of religious study in schools.“Indeed, removing the Catholic religion classes would mean relegating religious belief to the private sphere, which, for a democratic state, would be an impoverishment,” they said.The Belgian state curriculum includes religion c...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rick Musacchio,Tennessee RegisterBy Andy TelliNASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -? Throughout his life, Msgr. Owen Campion hashad a fascination with words.That fascination led him into the Catholic media as a reporter, writerand editor, a mentor to Catholic journalists, and as a liaison between theVatican and Catholic media around the world."It's been the ministry of my priesthood," said Msgr. Campion, a native of Nashville and a priestof the Diocese of Nashville for 50 years.That ministry wound to a close June 30, when his retirement as associatepublisher of Our Sunday Visitor, based in Huntington, Indiana, and as editor ofThe Priest magazine, where he has worked since 1988, became official. He calledhis work at Our Sunday Visitor, and the view of the Catholic Church in Americait has provided him, "very fascinating."Msgr. Campion's path to journalism began as a youth. The DominicanSisters of St. Cecilia who were his elementary school teachers "taught me howto use the English ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Civil rights groups and activists sued Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies over their treatment of protesters rallying against the police shooting death of a black man, saying officers used excessive force and physically and verbally abused peaceful demonstrators....
Vatican City, Jul 13, 2016 / 10:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After a trip to the dentist Wednesday, Pope Francis made the spontaneous decision to stop by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America – a visit one official says demonstrates his close pastoral concern for those in his care.“It was a very exciting moment for everyone,” Fr. Jose Tola, an official of the department, told CNA July 13 following the Pope’s visit.Fr. Tola, who was present to welcome the unexpected guest, said it was the first time he’s met the Pope in a non-protocol situation.“He’s a person with a very special charism and has a very sincere way of approaching people,” Tola said, explaining that for him the visit was “a very edifying experience” from a personal, human, and spiritual perspective.While he’s met the Pope before in formal situations, what made this visit special was “the spontaneity,” the priest said, because protocol visits ...
