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IMAGE: CNS illustration/courtesy Southern Dominican ProvinceBy Peter Finney Jr.NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- The idea ofmaking a walking pilgrimage in the United States took root about four years agowhen Dominican Fathers Francis Orozco and Thomas Schaefgen were studyingtogether for the priesthood.They saw the movie, "TheWay," featuring Martin Sheen, who portrayed a father honoring his late son'smemory by completing the 450-mile Camino de Santiago, the "Way of St.James," a pilgrimage route across Spain taken for centuries by pilgrims."We had both studied abroadin Spain, but we thought, why don't we do something more local, something inthis country?" said Father Orozco, chaplain of the Catholic Student Centerat Texas Tech University in Lubbock. "We looked up places, and therereally weren't any established pilgrimages in the U.S., so we said, 'Let's makeup our own.'"From that seed sprouted "Friarson Foot," a 478-mile pilgrimage on foot from New Orleans to Memphis, Tennessee,which will begin af...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans and Democrats reached a rare, election-year deal with the White House to try to rescue Puerto Rico from $70 billion in debt as millions of Americans in the cash-strapped U.S. territory struggle with the loss of basic services....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The top lawyer for Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin urged prison officials to go forward with a planned execution even though they received the wrong drug, telling a deputy attorney general to "Google it" to confirm it could be used, a grand jury said in a report Thursday....
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Aid workers and parents of the girls who were kidnapped from a school in 2014 lashed out at the Nigerian government and military Thursday for their handling of the first of the so-called Chibok girls to escape the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram....
READING, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania police officer lied about the reason behind a traffic stop, then smashed the motorist's cellphone and punched her in the face after pulling her over without sufficient cause, prosecutors said....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Viewers didn't need to see Morley Safer's reporting to feel its effects....
CAIRO (AP) -- An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard veered wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, authorities said. Egyptian and Russian officials said it may have been brought down by terrorists....
(Vatican Radio) An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning.Egypt's aviation minister said the crash was more likely caused by a terror attack than technical problems.Meanwhile, as John Carr reports from Athens, wreckage has been sighted in the Mediterranean sea in Greek waters.Listen: Greek television has reported that pieces of debris have been located midway between Crete and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea, where Egyptair flight 804 disappeared in the early hours of this morning.According to the report, a Greek Navy frigate found at least two large brightly-coloured plastic objects floating on the sea surface. The speculation is that they could be lifejackets or other cabin equipment. The location is consistent with where the plane vanished from radar screens just after leaving Greek airspace.Athens air traffic control said there had been no re...
New Dehli, India, May 19, 2016 / 01:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Tom Uznunnalil, the Indian Salesian priest kidnapped by extremists in March is alive and close to being released, according to Indian government officials.AsiaNews reported Wednesday that Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj of India has said that Fr. Tom is “safe and that the "last efforts (are being made to) ensure his release."The Asian news source also reports that the priest is not in the hands of the Islamic State but rather other “anti-government forces” in Yemen territory, possibly Shiite Houthi rebels, who have been battling the government army for more than a year, though there has been no confirmation of the group’s involvement in the incident.Fr. Uzhunnalil, an Indian national, was abducted March 4 when four gunmen attacked a Missionaries of Charity-run retirement home in Aden, Yemen, killing 16 people, including four Missionary of Charity sisters.During Holy Week, unsubstantiated...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Human traffickers and unjustbusiness owners who become wealthy by exploiting others for cheap labor commit amortal sin, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. "Those who do this are true leeches and live off the bloodletting of people whom they have made to workas slaves," the pope said May 19 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.The pope's homily centeredon the day's first reading from the Letterof St. James (5:1-6) in which the apostle denounces those who have gained theirwealth from "thewages you withheld from the workers."Although wealth in and ofitself isn't bad, the pope said the real problem comes when one's heart becomesattached to riches, particularly those who believe in the "theology ofprosperity" that stems from the belief that God offers financial blessings to the just. The attachment to wealthcan instead become "chains that take away the freedom to follow Jesus,"he said. Pope Francis lamented thateven ...
