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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's normally raucous House of Commons was given over to tears, roses and warm tributes Monday as legislators urged an end to angry and divisive politics in honor of their slain colleague Jo Cox, who was killed last week....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump abruptly fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday in a dramatic shake-up designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and end an internal power struggle plaguing the billionaire businessman's unconventional White House bid....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided Senate blocked rival election-year plans to curb guns on Monday, eight days after the horror of Orlando's mass shooting intensified pressure on lawmakers to act but knotted them in gridlock anyway - even over restricting firearms for terrorists....
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Bishops of the Philippines have expressed alarm at signs of vigilantism and a sharp rise in police killings, following a general election a month ago. As regional correspondent Alastair Wanklyn reports, the nation's incoming president has threatened to stamp out crime, using all means possible.Listen: In a statement, the bishops expressed alarm at reports that suspected drug pushers have been shot dead because they resisted arrest. They cited reports that bodies have been paraded for the media with labels declaring their supposed crime.The bishops also condemned the offering of financial bonuses to police who kill. They said such bounties are never morally acceptable.The statement is a pastoral message addressed to Philippine law enforcers. It was released on Monday by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.The nation will get a new leader at the end of June, when President-elect Rodrigo Duterte takes office. He has said he will s...
(Vatican Radio) The opening session of the long awaited pan-Orthodox Council took place on Monday on the Greek island of Crete, led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 1st.Preparations for the ‘Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church’ have been in the works for more than 50 years, but the meeting has been overshadowed by the last minute decision of four Church leaders to stay away from the week long meeting.Despite these difficulties, Patriarch Bartholomew hailed the significance of the Council in his opening address, as our correspondent at the meeting Nicolas Papachristou reports:Listen: Among the representatives of the other Christian Churches present at the opening session of the Council today was the head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, who is leading a delegation from the Holy See. He shared his impressions of the opening session, saying the meeting is a very important event that can deepen the re...
Munich, Germany, Jun 20, 2016 / 10:00 am (CNA).- In April, Robert Spaemann, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Munich, attracted significant attention for an interview with Anian Christoph Wimmer, editor of CNA's German-language edition.Greatly valued as an advisor by Saint John Paul II, a friend of Benedict XVI, and widely held to be the most important German Catholic philosopher of recent decades, Spaemann expressed a distinctly critical interpretation of Amoris Laetitia.After widespread reaction to that interview, Spaemann responded with a follow-up column in “Tagespost.” That column is reprinted below with permission. We Shouldn’t Talk About a “Breach”: The Debate on Pope Francis and His Exhortation, Amoris LaetitiaBy Robert SpaemannMy critical remarks in a conversation with Catholic News Agency (CNA) on the Papal Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, have evoked lively reactions – partly in enthusiastic approval, partly in...
Rome, Italy, Jun 20, 2016 / 12:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Vatican conference dedicated to the up-and-coming 'theology of disability' aims not only to end common stigma surrounding persons with disabilities, but to show that their lives are a gift and to help integrate them more fully into the life of the Church and of society.“The disabled person’s life has never been more in danger as it is now, before life and after,” Cristina Gangemi told CNA in an interview.Co-director of The Kairos Forum and an expert in intellectual and cognitive disability with a particular focus on spirituality, Gangemi and her organization are partnering with the Pontifical Council for Culture in putting on the “Living Fully 2016” conference later this week.Society, she said, “is seeking to develop the perfect human person,” and in doing so renders the life of the disabled “mechanistic.”Rather, “the disabled person calls you back to lo...
IMAGE: CNS/Sean HawkeyBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Churchopened with only 10 of the 14 Orthodox churches represented, Pope Francisoffered his prayers. After reciting the Angelus prayer June 19, the popehad thousands of visitors in St. Peter's Square join him in praying a Hail Mary for "all of our Orthodox brothers and sisters."Pope Francis noted that the day was Pentecost on the Juliancalendar followed by the Orthodox. "Let us unite ourselves to the prayerof our Orthodox brothers and sisters, invoking the Holy Spirit so that it wouldassist with its gifts the patriarchs, archbishops and bishops gathered in thecouncil."The pope's daily tweet repeated his message: "Let usjoin in prayer with our Orthodox brothers and sisters for the Holy and GreatCouncil of the Orthodox Church opening today in Crete." EcumenicalPatriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is presiding over the council meetings,retweeted the pope's message.In his hom...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Shaquisha Gibson-Posey pulls out a grisly cellphone photo of her murdered brother whenever her 15-year-old son complains of being cooped up in the house. This is why you can't go out in the neighborhood this summer, she tells him....
MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (AP) -- It's a troublesome story playing out across America in the 10 years since the housing bubble peaked and then burst in a ruinous crash: As real estate has climbed back, homeowners are thriving while renters are struggling....
