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By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- More than a year after the conclusionof the Vatican's apostolic visitation of U.S. communities of women religious,the Vatican began asking more than a dozen orders to send their superiors toRome to discuss concerns that surfaced."We did a very positive report at the conclusion of thevisitation," a report that looked at the life of women's congregations inthe United States as a whole and was released in December 2014, said CardinalJoao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of ConsecratedLife and Societies of Apostolic Life.But "there remained about 15 -- more or less --congregations that we needed to speak with about a few points," thecardinal told Catholic News Service June 14. The cardinal had attended a newsconference about a new document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of theFaith looking at the relationship between the hierarchy and communities ormovements that arise from "charismatic gifts.""When you are speaking o...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrea Navarro, Florida CatholicBy Christine Young and Teresa PetersonORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- In Orlando and major cities aroundthe nation and the world, people gathered June 13 to pay tribute to thosekilled and injured in the shooting rampage in Orlando the previous day.About 700 people alsogathered to pray for those attacked and for peace in the world at St. JamesCathedral, less than two miles up the street from where the shootings tookplace at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando.Theinterfaith prayer service was led by Orlando Bishop John G. Noonan, who wasjoined on the altar by Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, 10 priests ofthe Orlando Diocese and other religious leaders."Our presence here tonightis a symbol of hope. We come to pray," said Bishop Noonan.He wasjoined by Imam Tariq Rashid, of the Islamic Center of Orlando; Bishop GregBrewer, of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida; Deacon Michael Matheny, ofSt. Luke Episcopal Cathedral; Huseyin Peker, the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sophisticated hackers linked to Russian intelligence services broke into the Democratic National Committee's computer networks and gained access to confidential emails, chats and opposition research on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, people familiar with the breach said Tuesday....
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- At a checkpoint outside militant-held Fallujah, hundreds of civilians who fled the fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group huddled late at night in packed mini-buses on the side of a highway as security forces separated out those suspected of supporting the extremists....
PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Nearly half of the people slain in an Orlando nightclub were Puerto Ricans, the island's justice secretary said Tuesday, compounding the shock for the territory's gay community and society as a whole....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The first victim of the nightclub shooting arrived shortly after 2 a.m. and was relatively stable, giving doctors working the overnight shift hope that any others would arrive in a similar condition....
PARIS (AP) -- It took just a few hours for the Islamic State group's opportunistic propaganda machine to capitalize on the latest bloodshed in Florida and in France, with messages claiming the two attackers as its own. It may take the group longer to sort through the implications of a killer whose backstory of conflicted sexuality and heavy drinking is at odds with a carefully crafted public image of its fighters....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric, blasting the Republican presidential nominee's immigration proposals as dangerous and "not the America we want."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dismayed Republicans scrambled for cover Tuesday from Donald Trump's inflammatory response to the Orlando massacre, while President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton delivered fiery denunciations that underscored the potential peril for the GOP....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the Florida nightclub shooting. (all times local):...
