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WASHINGTON (AP) -- WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Campaign 2016 weeks before the Republican and Democratic national conventions (all times EDT):...
LONDON (AP) -- Thirteen years after British troops marched into Iraq and seven years after they left a country that's still mired in violence, a mammoth official report is about to address the lingering question: What went wrong?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Key assertions by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email practices have collapsed under FBI scrutiny....
Washington D.C., Jul 5, 2016 / 12:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On America’s 240th Independence Day, Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh called on Catholics to be “footnotes” for the truth that is Christ.“I would like to suggest, on this Fourth of July celebration, as we mark the end of our Fortnight for Freedom of 2016, that we take a look at how you and I are called to be footnotes. And footnotes to the truth that is none other than Jesus Christ, Himself,” Bishop Zubik exhorted the congregation at the July 4 closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom.Using his undergraduate term papers as an example, the bishop explained that footnotes “help to embellish the truth of whatever is being conveyed. Footnotes strengthen the message that is being put forth.” Similarly, by their living witness, Catholics should point to Christ, he said.Bishop Zubik preached the homily at the closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom, held Independence Day at the Basilica...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic StandardBy Mark ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The theme for the 2016 Fortnight for Freedom, "Witnesses to Freedom,"unfolded as 1,500 people spent part of their July 4 holiday in Washington attendingthe observance's closing Mass and venerating the relics of two English saints martyredin 1535 for their Catholic faith.TheMass and veneration took place at the Basilica of the National Shrine of theImmaculate Conception. After the Mass, people waited in a long line to kneeland pray before the relics of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More displayednear the altar.Welcomingthe congregation, Msgr. Walter Rossi, the shrine's rector, said those filling whatis the largest Catholic church in North America offered "testimony that thefreedom to live our lives according to our faith is fundamental to the life ofbelievers."TheU.S. Catholic Church's fifth annual Fortnight for Freedom closing Mass includedthe participation of three of the petitioners in a rec...
PARIS (AP) -- Intelligence failures, in France and abroad, led to the failure to foil attacks in Paris last year by Islamic radicals that killed 147 people, while rival units of security forces trapped by rules and stepping on each other's feet made the situation worse during the attacks, the head of an investigating commission of lawmakers concluded Tuesday....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The government minister largely responsible for security in Baghdad submitted his resignation Tuesday, two days after one of the biggest bombings in more than a decade of war and insurgency killed 175 people as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan came to an especially bloody conclusion....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Eight years after Hillary Clinton helped unite Democrats behind Barack Obama's presidential campaign, he's returning the favor....
LONDON (AP) -- The race to succeed Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron intensified Tuesday as Britain grappled with growing signs of economic strain resulting from the country's vote to leave the European Union....
KHANKE, Iraq (AP) -- The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."...
