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NEW YORK (AP) -- The courtroom fight between former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and news-and-gossip site Gawker is becoming a battleground of sorts for Silicon Valley tycoons as well....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, "There is no drought."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's best ally in winning over skeptical Republicans is turning out to be Hillary Clinton....
(Vatican Radio) “Brought by waves:,” that’s the slogan of the fourth edition of the Children’s Train, an initiative of the Pontifical Council for Culture. In collaboration with Italian State Railways, four hundred children from schools in Italy’s southern region of Calabria, will make the long trip north to the Vatican Saturday 28 May to meet Pope Francis. Listen to the report by Tracey McClure: The slogan recalls the many migrants who’ve arrived on the shores of Calabria in recent years. The Pope will receive the children in an audience in the Vatican at noon.Last year, the train brought sons and daughters of inmates of southern Italian prisons to the Vatican.Fr. Laurent Mazas, the director of the Council for Culture’s “Courtyard of the Gentiles” which is sponsoring the initiative, says this year, the focus of the journey is on children who are forced to flee their homes, “migrants who are asking t...
(Vatican Radio) US President Barack Obama made history today by becoming the first sitting U.S. leader to visit Hiroshima. He paid tribute to the ‘silent cry’ of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on the city, delivering an address in which he said nuclear nations have obligations to reduce their arsenals. Listen to Alastair Wanklyn's report: During the ceremony, President Obama laid a wreath and then stood in silence at a cenotaph near where the first atomic bomb fell. He then made an address in which he said what the world needs is "a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare, but the start of our own moral awakening."He said he will not live to see the world go non-nuclear, but he said all nations that have the weapons must work to that end.President Obama also said, "Among those nations that have nuclear stockpiles, like my own, we must have the courage to esca...
Vatican City, May 27, 2016 / 11:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- When Pope Francis met with the Sons of Divine Providence – also known as the Orionine Fathers – on Friday, he urged them to be faithful to the charism of their founder, St. Luigi Orione. So what is this charism?“Don Orione recommended that you 'seek out and treat the wounds of the people, cure their infirmities, and reach out to them morally and materially: in this way your action would be not only effective, but profoundly Christian and saving,'” Pope Francis reminded the Orionines May 27 at the Vatican's Clementine Hall.The Orionines are gathered in rome for their 14th General Chapter, at which they elected a new superior general, Father Tarcisio Vieira.The Sons of Divine Providence were founded by St. Luigi Orione in 1893, while he was still a seminarian. St. Orione was born in Italy in 1872, and he was a student at the Valdocco Oratory in Turin, which was operated by St. John Bosco. His m...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, ReutersBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of LosAngeles said in a May 25 statement that a planned increase in federalimmigration raids is "yet another depressing sign of the failed state ofAmerican immigration policy." The raids were announced in mid-May.Archbishop Gomez' comment was echoed by SeattleAuxiliary Bishop Eusebio L. Elizondo, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committeeon Migration. The archbishop is chairman-elect of the committee."These operations spark panic among ourparishes," Bishop Elizondo said in a May 25 statement. "No person,migrant or otherwise, should have to fear leaving their home to attend churchor school. No person should have to fear being torn away from their family andreturned to danger."While saying he recognized the federal government'srole in upholding immigration laws, he said the deportations would not be"an effective deterrent" to migration because these "vulnerablepopulations" are facing a humanitarian cr...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Immediately after the Supreme Court sent the contraceptive case backto the lower courts May 16, some called the decision a punt -- the footballanalogy of sending the ball back to the other team -- or in this case the lowercourts.But theanalogy falls short on a practical level because the seven consolidated casesin Zubik will be sent back to the lower courts with a very different look -- bearingthe stamp of being vacated by the nation's high court. The 3rd,5th, 10th and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals -- which ruled in favor of the AffordableCare Act's contraceptive mandate and did not see it as posing a substantialburden to the petitioners' free exercise of religion -- now must give anotherlook at the issue equipped with the new information submitted to the SupremeCourt showing a possible compromise.Althoughthe justices' unanimous decision in Zubik v. Burwell took many by surprise,others said they saw something ...
SICULIANA, Sicily (AP) -- A Sudanese man who survived the capsizing of a heavily overcrowded smugglers boat off Libya recounted Friday how the vessel tipped over when fellow migrants heard the voice of approaching rescuers and rushed above deck, leaving hundreds of people foundering in the Mediterranean....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Five days into an Iraqi military operation to push Islamic State fighters out of Fallujah, residents still inside the city are preparing for a long battle, with some saying they fear being trapped between two forces they don't fully trust....
