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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Eight years to the day after conceding she was unable to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling," Hillary Clinton is poised to embrace her place in history as she finally crashes through as the Democratic presidential nominee....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Florida's attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates...
CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) -- As Iraqi security forces tighten their grip on the outskirts of militant-held Fallujah allegations of human rights violations are surfacing on both sides of the operation....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday named Archbishop Savio Tai-Fai Hon, currently serving as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, to the post of Apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese of Agana, on the Pacific island of Guam.The archdiocese in the U.S territory said last week it had hired a top law firm and was working with an independent investigator to examine accusations that Archbishop Anthony Apuron, had sexually abused two boys in the 1970s.The archbishop has denied the allegations and has not been charged with any crime.Pope Francis' nomination came two days after he issued a new document establishing norms for the removal of Church leaders who have been negligent in protecting children or vulnerable adults from abuse.Hong Kong born Archbishop Savio Tai-Fai Hon has been a member of the International Theological Commission since 2004 and the number two at the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples since 2010.Pope
Vatican City, Jun 6, 2016 / 11:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Meekness of heart is not foolishness, Pope Francis said Monday, but rather “the capacity to be deep and to understand the greatness of God, and worship Him.”The Pope reflected during his homily Monday on the Beatitudes as steps that take us towards God.The Pope’s homily came during the June 6 Mass at the Casa Santa Martha residence, Vatican Radio reports. He reflected on the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew.Pope Francis encouraged reflection on the beatitude, “Blessed are the Meek,” saying that the opposite of meekness “always causes enmities and wars.”“Jesus says of himself: ‘learn from me for I am meek of heart’, I am humble and gentle at heart. To be meek is a way of being that brings us close to Jesus.”The beatitudes are “the Lord’s new law for us.” They are “the steps that take us forward in l...
Vatican City, Jun 6, 2016 / 12:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An elderly couple with disabilities on the outskirts of Rome now has an electric scooter, thanks to a gift from Pope Francis.Both the man and the woman suffer from many health problems, including high blood pressure and diabetes, Vatican Radio reports. The woman’s leg was recently amputated. Thanks to the new scooter, the couple can be more independent.The papal almoner Archbishop Konrad Krajewski sent the gift on behalf of Pope Francis.The couple is being assisted by the Italian organization Medicina Solidale. The organization had planned to raise funds for the scooter before the Pope’s gift.“(T)he Pope never ceases to amaze us,” said Lucia Ercoli, the group’s director. The group had received support in the form of medicine, food and an ambulance.“In this way, we feel less alone in our daily work, less abandoned by institutions,” she said. With Pope Francis “we feel close and alwa...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even in the midst of suffering and death, Christians canbecome witnesses of the resurrection and the power of God's compassion, PopeFrancis said as he proclaimed two new saints. In the Sunday Gospelreading, Jesus' raising of ayoung widow's child was not a magical performance but rather a reminder that hetakes death upon himself to restore the suffering to new life, the pope saidJune 5."Jesus is no wizard! He is God's tenderness incarnate; the Father'simmense compassion is at work in Jesus," the pope said. At the beginning of the Mass in St. Peter's Square, PopeFrancis canonized St. MaryElizabeth Hesselblad of Sweden, who re-founded the Bridgettine sisters in the early 1900s, and St. Stanislaus Papczynski of Poland,founder of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.Banners bearing the image of the two new saints hung fromthe facade of St. Peter's Basilica as some 40,000 people joined members of the twosaints'...
LONDON (AP) -- British playwright Peter Shaffer, whose durable, award-winning hits included "Equus" and "Amadeus," has died. He was 90....
WYNNE, Ark. (AP) -- For many male defendants in Judge Joseph Boeckmann's courtroom, the initial deal seemed simple enough: The judge would approach them after court, either himself or through a bailiff, and offer a way out of traffic or court fines....
