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ELKHART, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama went on a "myth-busting" mission Wednesday aimed at undermining Republican arguments about the economy, working to give cover to Democrats to embrace his policies ahead of the presidential election....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For unaccompanied immigrant children seeking asylum in the U.S., where they apply seems to make a world of difference....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Confusion and panic set in after a 3-year-old boy plunged into the Cincinnati Zoo's gorilla exhibit, according to 911 recordings released Wednesday, with the boy's mother pleading for help while repeatedly shouting at her son: "Be calm!"...
CAIRO (AP) -- A French ship searching the Mediterranean has detected black box signals from a missing EgyptAir flight in the waters between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast, a development that could help solve the mystery of why the aircraft crashed into the sea last month, killing all 66 on board....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In the minutes after a fatal shooting at a UCLA engineering building, panicked students seeking a safe place to hide used belts, cords and other items to try to secure doors they said did not lock....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A murder-suicide at a UCLA engineering building Wednesday drew hundreds of heavily armed officers who swarmed the sprawling Los Angeles campus, where students close to summer break barricaded themselves in classrooms as best they could before being evacuated with their hands up....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Grand promises. Boundless boasts. Absolute faith in the man behind it all....
Palai, India, Jun 1, 2016 / 11:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Syro-Malabar Catholic bishop from the southern Indian state of Kerala has a special way to celebrate the Year of Mercy: he is donating his kidney to save a young Hindu man battling for his life.“I have no anxiety about the surgery, and it’s only a simple sacrifice for a fellow being,” Bishop Jacob Muricken, 52, told CNA. He is an auxiliary bishop of the Sryo-Malabarese Diocese of Palai.He will donate his kidney to save 30-year-old Sooraj Sudhakaran. The young man is from Kottakkal, another city in Kerala, about 120 miles northwest of Palai.Sudhakaran is the only breadwinner of his family, and supports his wife and his mother. The low-cast Hindu man has lost his job, and sold his house to pay for the treatment costs of dialysis. He was diagnosed with kidney failure two years ago.“If I can save the life of Sudhakaran, a family would be saved,” Bishop Muricken said.The procedure is taking place June ...
Vatican City, Jun 1, 2016 / 11:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has sent a special message to support the work of prison chaplains during the Year of Mercy.“He especially wishes to assure all who are serving prison communities of his prayerful solidarity and deep gratitude for their efforts in upholding the human dignity of all those incarcerated,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, said to a European meeting of chaplains June 1.The Pope also thanked prison chaplains for helping the incarcerated to celebrate the Year of Mercy. The observance includes the establishing of Holy Doors in various churches and prisons to help encourage growth in grace.The Roman Pontiff specifically reflected on how prisoners can use Holy Doors in prisons in his September 2015 letter about the Year of Mercy.“May the gesture of directing their thought and prayer to the Father each time they cross the threshold of their cell signify for them their passage through t...
IMAGE: By Francois GloutnayMONTREAL (CNS) -- In the pastfew years, Benedictine Father Simon-Pierre Arnold has warned aging and decliningreligious congregations that it would be a mistake to try to "mend an oldfabric with new cloth" or "pour new wine into old wineskins." Hereiterated this message in a speech to heads of Canadian religious communities.Religious must "urgentlythink of new ways to be present in the world," the Belgian-born monk toldthe general assembly of the Canadian Religious Conference, which gathered 25men and 252 women religious leaders in Montreal May 26-29.Calling himself "a littlemonk-theologian who has lived in Peru for more than 40 years," Father Arnoldsaid he wanted to share his "intuitions, worries and utopias" aboutthe future of consecrated life."We must return to theGospel; we must return to our minority, marginal ... and prophetic origins,"he said. Such a mindset will force the men and women religious to "criticize,as does the pope, our own clerical exces...
