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DETROIT (AP) -- Volkswagen has agreed to take a series of steps costing about $10.2 billion to settle claims from its unprecedented diesel emissions cheating scandal in the U.S., two people briefed on the matter said Thursday....
DALLAS (AP) -- The arrests this month of two men on charges of groping young girls on planes has raised questions about the safety of minors who fly alone....
HAVANA (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the country's leftist FARC rebels agreed Thursday on a cease-fire and rebel disarmament deal that moves the country to the brink of ending a 52-year war that has left more than 220,000 people dead....
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of gallons of crude oil spilled Thursday from a pipeline and flowed down a ravine in Southern California but did not reach the ocean, officials said....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A judge explained why he found a police driver not guilty in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken on the way to the station: He didn't see any evidence of a crime....
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi commanders are preparing to dislodge Islamic State group fighters from pockets of territory in Fallujah's northern and western neighborhoods where the militants have dug in after largely fleeing their positions in the city center last week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats have ended their 25½-hour sit-in on the chamber's floor that they've been staging to demand votes on gun control....
(Vatican Radio) A commentator for the “Catholic Voices” association in the UK said it’s not just Britons but Catholic too who are split down the middle on the Brexit issue. James Newman, a newly-qualified doctor based in London and part of the Catholic Voices team was speaking to Susy Hodges. His comments came on the eve of Britain’s historic referendum to decide whether the nation leaves or remains in the European Union. Opinion polls in the immediate run-up to the vote had suggested that the ‘Remain’ and ‘Leave’ camps were running neck and neck, with the result too close to call.Listen to the interview with James Newman of the "Catholic Voices" association: Asked whether it will be easy to heal the divisions that the referendum campaign laid bare in British society, Newman says he hopes that happen as he believes “reconciliation” will be needed because “there will be a large number of British vote...
The disabled children, abandoned by their parents and the orphans welcomed at the Don Bosco Institute of Da Ming, on June 19 celebrated Father’s Day, celebrating the priests who take care of them and consider them their fathers. Father's Day is celebrated in China every third Sunday of June.The priests of the diocesan seminary community of the Sacred Heart give spiritual assistance to the nuns who run the Institute and host the children. The children wanted to celebrate the priests on Father's Day and sent flowers made with their hands to other priests who were not present, who in turn take care of them.The Don Bosco Institute in Da Ming was born in 1984 when Sister Wu Yong Bo, of the Congregation of the Mother of God, at the time eighty, welcomed a disabled baby girl who was left in front of the church door. From that moment the elderly nun decided to take care of these children. In October 1994, the Don Bosco Institute was officially opened in a buildin...
(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, said the Holy See has no direct information on the declarations attributed to the auxiliary bishop of Shanghai. Father Lombardi was responding to requests for information from various journalists following remarks attributed to Bishop Taddeo Ma Daqin where, writing in his blog, he praised the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association for its “irreplaceable role” in the development of the Church in China. Bishop Ma Daqin has spent four years under house arrest for quitting the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the Chinese authorities also forbade him from exercising his episcopal ministry. Please see below a translation into English of Father Lombardi’s remarks:In response to requests for information from various journalists, I am able to say the following:1) With regard to the recent declarations attributed to Msgr. Taddeo Ma Daqin, auxiliarybishop of Shangh...
