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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Hillary Clinton considers her choices for vice president, she's seriously weighing the potential negative impact her decision could have on Democratic efforts to retake control of the Senate, according to party members familiar with her thinking....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court issued its strongest defense of abortion rights in a quarter-century Monday, striking down Texas' widely replicated rules that sharply reduced abortion clinics in the nation's second-most-populous state....
(Vatican Radio) One year from the publication of the “Motu Proprio” with which Pope Francis established the new Vatican Secretariat for Communication charged with reforming Vatican media, the Prefect of the Secretariat, Msgr. Dario Eduardo Viganò, gives a run-down of the work accomplished in the past 12 months and looks ahead to a new vision.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: In an interview with Vatican Radio’s Alessandro Gisotti, Msgr. Viganò points out that clear indications in the Pope’s “Motu Proprio” place the current digital culture at the center of the reform and change the perspective into a “User first” one that challenges us to “stop navel-gazing in the assumption that others are listening and looking at us”.The media reform regards all the Vatican media outlets including the daily newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano”, Vatican Radio, CTV, the LEV publishing house, the typography ...
Caritas Bangladesh has a new executive director. Francis Atul Sarkar took over from Benedict Alo D'Rozario, who served the social arm of Bangladesh’s Catholic Church in various capacities for 29 years. D’Rozario who is 60, served for 11 of these years, as executive director. At the handover ceremony at the charity’s headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday, Sarkar said Caritas Bangladesh would prioritize helping more poor and downtrodden communities in order to "serve and care" for their development. "Service is all we aim to offer to more and more people. We will make more effort to help people benefit from the model of service and care of the Catholic Church," he told UCANEWS. Among those present at the June 23 inauguration of the new Caritas director were Caritas Bangladesh president Bishop Gervas Rozario of Rajshahi and Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario of Dhaka.Sarkar, 58, from Baradal...
Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle on Friday unveiled a project in an effort to reach out to people for whom healthcare services are hardly a reality. The Archbishop of the Philippine capital, Manila, blessed two mobile clinics of Caritas Manila, donated by the US-based Barnabite Heart to Heart Ministry for its “Make Sad Eyes Smile” project in Pennsylvania in September 2015. Through the two trailers, volunteer doctors and nurses will provide services to street children and the homeless in areas of Metro Manila. “If they can’t come to the hospital then the clinic will go to them. Through these clinics, we hope that God’s concern and healing could reach many people,” said 59-year old Card. Tagle, who in May last year was elected the president of Caritas Internationalis by over 130 member organizations from all over the world. According to American Barnabite priest Fr. Robert Kosek, who hea...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jeff Bruno, The MonitorBy Patrick T. BrownTRENTON,N.J. (CNS) -- "What's the point of working so hard in school if you'regoing to end up cutting grass?"Thosewords stick with Jose Aguilar two decades later. He was sitting in a New Jerseyclassroom, a teenager in the country without legal documents, and took hisex-Marine teacher's hard-nosed advice as license to, as he puts it, "giveup."Aguilarremembers his teacher calling him an "excellent student," but saying,"I see a lot of kids just like you who end up working as a landscaper. IfI was you, I'd just quit school, and find something you're good at."Whenhe was young, Jose had been brought across the U.S.-Mexico border without documentationas his family pursued economic stability and a brighter future. His choices ledhim to instability and a brush with death.Buthis journey didn't end there. A conversion experience, becoming a father and makinga trip to a Catholic Charities immigration office helped him regain the promise...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -? In a 5-3 vote June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down restrictionson Texas abortion clinics that required them to comply with standards ofambulatory surgical centers and required their doctors to have admittingprivileges at local hospitals.Thecase, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, challenged a 2013 state law, H.B. 2, placingthe requirements on the state's abortion clinics. Opponents of the law claimedthe requirements were aimed at closing abortion clinics. But the state and manypro-life advocates maintained that the law protected women's health.TheU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other religious groups submitted ajoint friend of the court brief in the case supporting the Texas law, which wassimilar to other state laws regulating abortion clinics across the country.JusticeStephen Breyer, who wrote the opinion, said the restrictions on the clinics"provide few if any health benefits for women, pose a substantial obstacleto women see...
Lionel Messi's surprising decision to stop playing for Argentina could damage his legacy with the national team and fans back home....
ANSTED, W.Va. (AP) -- Two men who were presumed dead when a camper was swept away in rushing waters during the West Virginia floods have been found alive, officials said Monday as the rain-soaked state braced for another round of heavy rains....
MADRID (AP) -- Mariano Rajoy, the leader of Spain's conservative Popular Party, tried to form a "grand coalition" Monday after his party won the country's unprecedented repeat election - but his offer was quickly rejected by both the center-left Socialists and the business-friendly Ciudadanos party....
