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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Patience Carter lay bleeding on the floor of the bathroom in club Pulse. She recalled looking into the stall next to her, and seeing bloody handprints on the wall and people draped over a toilet. Some were dead, others moaned in agony. She turned her head to see her best friend, lifeless....
A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside Pulse, a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, leaving at least 49 people dead in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Here are stories of some of the victims....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The murky picture of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen grew more complex Tuesday with word that the FBI is investigating whether he had been a regular at the gay dance club he attacked and had been leading a secret life as a gay man....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the Florida nightclub shooting (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) The head of the group of 19 European nations using the euro currency says the European Union's executive Commission appears to favor bigger member states in applying the bloc's budget laws, while smaller nations are treated more harshly. Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem told EU lawmakers Tuesday that European Union finance ministers are worried. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Dijsselbloem, who is also the Dutch finance minister, said he and his colleagues have the impression that the European Commission, the EU's executive, shows less flexibility towards smaller member states than towards bigger nations using the euro when imposing strict single currency rules. "The role of the Commission is crucial. If member states feel that the Commission's decisions are very hard to understand and very hard to predict and are not objective, [that they] are perhaps distinguishing between small member states and large member sta...
(Vatican Radio) After the mass killing of 49 people by a sole gunman in a nightclub that caters for the homosexual community in Orlando,Florida, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein - the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - has urged the United States to adopt robust gun control measures to pre-empt further killingsHe said the U.S. leadership needs to live up to its obligations to protect its citizens from the “horrifyingly commonplace but preventable violent attacks that are the direct result of insufficient gun control.”Listen to the report by Peter Kenny in Geneva: Quoting Zeid, UNHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville said it is hard to find a rational justification that explains the ease with which people can buy firearms. People can buy assault rifles in spite of prior criminal backgrounds, drug use, histories of domestic violence and mental illness, or direct contact with extremists – both domestic and foreign. Zeid asked: “How many more mass killings of sch...
Rome, Italy, Jun 14, 2016 / 11:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The first graduates of an international diploma course on safeguarding minors received a special greeting from Pope Francis, who encouraged the students and faculty to be courageous in their work against sexual abuse.“I want to thank you and all your faculty for this commitment to the prevention of sexual abuse of minors,” the Pope said in a letter to the director of the Centre for Child Protection (CCP), the initiative that spearheaded the diploma course.“You have undertaken great efforts for the prevention and healing of minors who have been sexually abused,” the Roman Pontiff said.Addressing the new graduates, who received their diplomas June 14 at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, Francis wished them “courage and patience; be brave and committed. I assure you that you will receive many signs of gratitude. I pray for you and I ask you to do the same for me.”The aim of the one-seme...
Vatican City, Jun 14, 2016 / 12:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On June 29 Benedict XVI will celebrate the 65th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood – a milestone he will commemorate in a special ceremony with Pope Francis inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace.Announced by the Ratzinger Foundation, the ceremony will take place at the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace June 28, the eve of the anniversary. Both Pope Francis and Benedict XVI, who rarely appears outside of the monastery where he lives inside Vatican City, will be present.Benedict, the Pope Emeritus, will be given a book on the priesthood created specifically for the occasion of the anniversary of his priestly ordination.Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, now known as Benedict XVI, was ordained a priest June 29, 1951 – the feast of Saints Peter and Paul – in the cathedral of Freising by the then-Cardinal Archbishop of Munich, Michael von Faulhaber. His older brother Georg, who is still alive today...
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 ...
