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(Vatican Radio) At least 20 people were killed and scores more were injured on Tuesday when two commuter trains collided head-on in the southern Italian region of Puglia.At least two passengers were pulled alive from the crumpled wreckage thanks to ongoing rescue operations. Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Local authorities in the Andria province where the crash took place are appealing for blood as hospitals are struggling to respond to the needs of dozens of injured people.A field hospital was set up in the nearby fields for emergency assistance as rescuers continue to extract people from the metal of the crumpled cars.A giant crane arrived on the scene to remove mangled debris and an official has said the final death toll will not be known until the train cars had been pulled apart.The two trains, each with four cars, travelling on a single track, collided at about 11.30 in the morning. Their passengers were mostly commuters and university students.Italy&rsquo...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Colleen DulleWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Recent comments by a high-ranking Vatican official havesparked questions about the direction priests should face while celebratingMass, but the Vatican spokesman said Pope Francis has made it clear no changesare foreseen.Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for DivineWorship and the Sacraments, urged priests and bishops at the Sacra Liturgiaconference in London July 5 to start celebrating Masses "adorientem," or facing away from the congregation, beginning the firstSunday of Advent this year.However, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, issued astatement July 11 indicating the Pope Francis met with Cardinal Sarah July 9 toindicate no liturgical directives will begin in Advent."Cardinal Sarah is always rightly concerned with the dignity of thecelebration of Mass, that it might adequately express an attachment of respectand adoration for the eucharistic mystery," Father Lombardi's statemen...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Tom TracyWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Low-costvideo messaging carried across increasingly video-friendly social mediaplatforms will define this year's World Youth Day experience, said severalorganizational leaders finalizing their media strategies. Due to the prevalence ofsmartphones and tablets, and their improved video-capture andmobile-application media-sharing capabilities, World Youth Day is likely to bedocumented in a way that no other such event has been to date, said Pallottine FatherFrank Donio, director of Catholic Apostolate Center in Washington.He said that in the 2013 WorldYouth Day in Rio de Janeiro, "the digital pieces were there, and we sawthe strength of the opportunities for people who couldn't be there to followalong and share in the experience." "Now that same technologyhas grown even more, and many more people now have a mobile device to follow along,"he told Catholic News Service.World Youth Day will take placein and around Kra...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A man who says former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him as a boy in 1976 testified in court documents unsealed Tuesday that head coach Joe Paterno was told about it the very next day and responded callously....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Pokemon Go craze has sent legions of players hiking around cities and battling with "pocket monsters" on their smartphones. It marks a turning point for augmented reality, or technology that superimposes a digital facade on the real world....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries mysteriously disappeared shortly after arriving in the country, purportedly snatched away and given to childless couples of European backgrounds....
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- An international tribunal rejected China's extensive claims in the South China Sea in a landmark ruling Tuesday that also found the country had aggravated the seething regional dispute and violated the Philippines' maritime rights by building up artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and by disrupting fishing and oil exploration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Attorney General Loretta Lynch's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee (all times local):...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A search warrant for surveillance video from the store where a black Louisiana man was killed by white police officers a week ago says that officers saw "the butt of a gun" in Alton Sterling's pocket during the arrest and that he tried "to reach for the gun from his pocket."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will be in a different city but still in an all-too-familiar place when he leads the nation in honoring more lives cut short by gun violence, this time five white police officers slain by a black man who said he wanted revenge for the killings of blacks by police....
