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LONDON (AP) -- They came, they saw, they got down to business....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is pressuring the food industry to make foods from breads to sliced turkey less salty, proposing long-awaited sodium guidelines in an effort to prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart disease and stroke....
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) -- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (BAY'-zohs) says when it comes to technology, "We're on the edge of the golden era."...
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt said Wednesday that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board....
A Honduran woman infected with Zika gave birth in New Jersey to a baby girl with birth defects caused by the virus, her doctor said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released documents about a now-defunct business owned by Donald Trump reveal strategies for enticing people to enroll in real estate seminars even if they couldn't afford it, opening the presumptive Republican nominee up to fresh criticism from Hillary Clinton that he took advantage of vulnerable Americans....
(Vatican Radio) Tens of thousands of pilgrims crowded St Peter’s Square Wednesday for Pope Francis’ weekly General Audience. In remarks to the English speaking faithful, Pope Francis said “true prayer is born of a heart which repents of its faults and failings, yet pleads for the grace to live the great commandment of love of God and neighbor.” And, we may receive God’s mercy if we are honest and humble.Below, please find the text of the Holy Father’s remarks in English:Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy, we now turn to the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Lk 18:9-14). Jesus contrasts the arrogance and self-righteousness of the Pharisee’s prayer with the tax collector’s humble recognition of his sinfulness and need for the Lord’s mercy. True prayer is born of a heart which repents of its faults and failings, yet pleads for the gra...
(Vatican Radio) At the General Audience Wednesday, Pope Francis recalled that Friday, 3 June, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which he said this year “is enriched by the Jubilee for Priests.”Pray the Sacred Heart of Jesus for your priests in June“I invite everyone to pray the Heart of Jesus for the entire month of June and to support with closeness and affection your priests so that they always reflect the image of that Heart full of merciful love,” the Pope said.The Jubilee for Priests falls on the 160° anniversary of the institution of the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, introduced in 1856 by Pope Pius IX.To celebrate their Jubilee in Rome, on Wednesday clergy and seminarians from around the world began the first of three days of prayer and reflection 1-3 June with pilgrimages to the Jubilee churches: S. Salvatore in Lauro, S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) and S. Giovanni Battista d...
(Vatican Radio) Judges from across the globe gather in the Vatican this week to discuss ways to combat human trafficking, mafias, drug trafficking, and the exploitation of prostitution and of minors, migrants and displaced persons. Organized and promoted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the event entitled “Summit of Judges on human trafficking and organized crime” is scheduled to take place on June 3 and 4.Among the problems identified are the gaps in national and international legislation designed to combat organized crime at the global level and its “structures of sin.”Participants are also scheduled to be received in audience by Pope Francis. Invited to give life to the event are over one hundred magistrates, prosecutors, representatives of judicial organizations and institutions around the world, who are engaged in the fight against various criminal activities.Discussions in the Casina Pio IV venue will focus on a number of current...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a Message to the participants of a European meeting of prison chaplains taking place in Strasbourg discussing radicalization in prisons.The message, sent by the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Pope Francis “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.”The full message is belowPope’s Message to the participants of the European meeting of prison ChaplainsHis Holiness Pope Francis was pleased to learn of the European meeting of prison chaplains, entitled “Radicalisation in prisons: a pastoral view”, to be held at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 30 May to 1 June 2016. With appreciation to the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care and the Permanent Mission of the Holy See for organizing ...
