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(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for Trinity Sunday. Listen: Gospel Jn 16: 12-15Jesus said to his disciples:"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,he will guide you to all truth.He will not speak on his own,but he will speak what he hears,and will declare to you the things that are coming.He will glorify me,because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.Everything that the Father has is mine;for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mineand declare it to you."
(Vatican Radio) Foreign Ministers of NATO are gathering today, Thursday, to discuss how the military alliance can expand despite objections from Russia and how it can more effectively deal with security threats and cooperate with the European Union to tackle human-smuggling amid an ongoing refugee crisis. Stefan Bos reports that a key US official has told Vatican Radio and other media that NATO expansion will continue after the expected membership of Montenegro. Listen:
Long Island, N.Y., May 19, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. James Williams, S.M., a former president of Chaminade High School on Long Island, has been suspended from priestly ministry over credible allegations of sexual abuse, his religious order stated on Friday.“Father James' clerical faculties have been suspended and he is not permitted to publicly function as a priest. His case will be, as required, submitted to the Holy See for final resolution,” read a May 13 statement from the Marianist Province of Meribah.“It is important to note that Fr. James has completely denied the allegations.”Fr. Williams was a staff member at Chaminade High School, a prestigious prep school in Mineola, N.Y., fewer than 10 miles north of Rockville Centre, from 1991 to 2012. He served as a teacher and chaplain, and was the school's president from 1999 to 2011.A former Chaminade student made allegations of misconduct and sexual abuse against Fr. Williams, saying the ...
BALTIMORE (AP) -- In the weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby, Japan-based Lani acted like a tourist on vacation....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Upcoming virtual-reality headsets based on Google's new Daydream VR system won't be as sophisticated as Facebook's Oculus Rift....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- After weeks of taking a beating from critics over North Carolina's law dictating which restrooms transgender people can use, Gov. Pat McCrory adopted a strategy long favored by Southern conservative governors: He went after the federal government....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bernie Sanders is winning sympathy from an unlikely ally: Donald Trump....
ELANGAPITIYA VILLAGE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Heavy rains Thursday pounded the central Sri Lankan region where at least three villages have already been swallowed by mountains of mud, forcing soldiers and police to suspend rescue work. At least 18 people are known to have been killed and hundreds are reported missing in the landslides so far....
Venezuela is being wracked by an increasingly belligerent standoff between the government and opposition, while many Venezuelans are becoming fed up with a floundering economy marked by long lines for food and the world's highest inflation. President Nicolas Maduro has declared a state of emergency to let him deal with the economy by decree, but the opposition is vowing to push ahead with its campaign to force a recall referendum seeking his ouster....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The mob didn't know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough....
