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Tim McGraw ended Carrie Underwood's four-year-winning streak for the top prize at the 2016 CMT Music Awards with his music video for "Humble and Kind" - which features footage provided by Oprah Winfrey - while stars from outside the country music world performed onstage, including Pharrell, Cheap Trick and Pitbull....
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Washington D.C., Jun 8, 2016 / 03:42 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the death sentence of a man whom lawyers claim is intellectually disabled, in a case that could decide how states administer the death penalty.“We welcome the Supreme Court's decision to review the standard Texas has been wrongfully using to determine intellectual disability and eligibility for execution,” said Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network. The organization is working with the U.S. bishops’ conference to end the use of the death penalty in the U.S.“It is important to protect the most vulnerable from this type of punishment but we look forward to the day when the death penalty is declared unconstitutional once and for all,” Clifton continued.The case, Moore v. Texas, is a challenge to the death sentence of Bobby James Moore, convicted in 1980 of robbing a grocery store and killing an employee, and convicted ag...
Berkeley, Calif., Jun 8, 2016 / 04:23 pm (CNA).- Two minutes and thirty seconds is all it took for Sean Bryan to complete the Los Angeles qualifier round of American Ninja Warrior. The season eight premiere of the hit NBC/Esquire show – which follows competitors as they try to complete obstacles courses of increasing difficulty – featured the amateur flying through every obstacle. He even climbed the newly designed, 14.5-foot Warped Wall on his first try.Bryan claimed 4th place and ranked among the show’s veterans, but something else caught everyone’s attention.On Bryan’s bright, yellow shirt was written: ‘Papal Ninja’.“I thought, how could I be a bit more explicit about my faith,” Bryan told CNA, “because it is quite explicit in my life.”The 31-year-old is an active member of the Catholic Church. His story, and the mystery behind his chosen competition name, were highlighted on American Ninja Warrior this month...
IMAGE: CNS/Bob MullenBy Philippe VaillancourtMONTREAL(CNS) -- Canada's most visited Catholic shrine is about to get a facelift.St.Joseph Oratory, managed by the Congregation of the Holy Cross, will see $80million ($63 million U.S.) in upgrades and new installations in a five-year project set to beginin 2017.Theproject includes a 360-degree observatory that will allow visitors to see asfar as the American border 40 miles away.Upcomingchanges also include a new pavilion to welcome visitors, a redesigned garden, newoutdoor lighting, installation of mechanical transports to help people climbthe hill to reach the basilica and the restoration of the museum.Aspokesman for the congregation said the modifications will modernize theoratory founded by St. Andre Bessette, who was known as Brother Andre.Foundedin 1904 and built atop Mount Royal, the oratory welcomes 2 million pilgrims andvisitors each year.The project will be financed in partby the oratory, which will invest $26.4 million ($20.8...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- With her furious and graphic 12-page letter to the court, the young woman at the center of the Stanford University sexual assault case has instantly become a powerful symbol of courage and resilience to other sex-crime victims, all while remaining anonymous....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday that the world's two largest democracies can anchor stability and prosperity from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific in an aspirational speech that glossed over continuing divisions in the relationship....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest developments in the 2016 campaign for the presidency. All times EDT:...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Rangers suspended their attempts on Wednesday to recover the body of a man who wandered from a designated boardwalk and fell into an acidic hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, another in a string of incidents raising concerns over visitor behavior....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Two Palestinians opened fire near a popular open-air market in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing four Israelis and wounding at least five others in one of the deadliest attacks in an eight-month wave of violence....
