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LONDON (AP) -- Treasury chief George Osborne sought Monday to ease investor concerns about Britain's vote to leave the European Union, saying the U.K. economy is as strong as it could be to face the challenge....
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Lionel Messi still awaits his first title with Argentina's national team....
The BET Awards (AP) -- or "The Prince Tribute Show" - featured emotional and energetic performances from Sheila E., Stevie Wonder and Jennifer Hudson honoring the Purple One, along with political statements on issues ranging from racial injustice to the U.S. presidential election....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Ten people were wounded - two of them with life-threatening injuries - on Sunday when counter-protesters clashed with members of a white nationalist group that planned to rally outside the California state Capitol building in Sacramento, authorities said....
sometimes I still am, angry at God. But it's not because he took my daughter away from me...
Aboard the papal plane, Jun 26, 2016 / 03:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a wide-ranging inflight press conference on his way back from Armenia on Sunday, Pope Francis responded to a question on recent comments made by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who said the Church must apologize to homosexual persons for having “marginalized” them.Francis agreed that the Church ought to apologize in cases of discrimination against individuals struggling with same-sex attraction, and referred to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which emphasizes the need to accompany and respect these persons.“I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: that they must not be discriminated against, that they must be respected and accompanied pastorally,” the Pope said June 26 on board his return flight from Armenia to Rome.The problem is “a person that has a condition,” he said, but, echoing his comment on the way back from Rio de Janiero in 2013, noted that that if the pe...
Aboard the papal plane, Jun 26, 2016 / 04:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During his flight from Armenia to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the assembled journalists aboard the papal plane. He reflected on his three-day trip to Armenia, his upcoming trips to Azerbaijan and Poland, the role of the Pope emeritus, Christian unity, and the reformation.He also addressed Brexit, the idea of deaconesses, and how the Church might apologize for unjust discrimination toward homosexual persons.Please find below the full text of the press conference, translated by Catholic News Agency:Fr. Lombardi: Holy Father, thanks so much for being here at the end of this quite brief, but very intense trip. We have been content to accompany you and now we wish to pose you some questions, taking advantage of your kindness. We have a list of people who are signed up to speak and we can begin, as is usual, with the colleagues from Armenia, as we give them the priority. The first is Artur Grygor...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM ARMENIA (CNS) -- Catholics and other Christians notonly must apologize to the gay community, they must ask forgiveness of God forways they have discriminated against homosexual persons or fostered hostilitytoward them, Pope Francis said."I think the church not only must say it is sorry tothe gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to exploited women"and anyone whom the church did not defend when it could, he told reporters June26.Spending close to an hour answering questions from reporterstraveling with him, Pope Francis was asked to comment on remarks reportedlymade a few days previously by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the Germanbishops' conference, that the Catholic Church must apologize to gay people forcontributing to their marginalization.At the mention of the massacre in early June at a gaynightclub in Orlando, Florida, Pope Francis closed his eyes as if in pain andshook his head in dismay."T...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rainbow flags were held high along with portraits of the dead as thousands of people marched Sunday in gay pride parades tempered by this month's massacre at a Florida gay nightclub....
