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HOUSTON (AP) -- With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration....
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a boarding school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited with her mother, a doctor said Wednesday - the first of the Chibok girls to be recovered since the mass abduction....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After months when the story of the 2016 presidential campaign focused on divided Republicans, Democrats are now showcasing divisions in their ranks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, released Wednesday a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House....
(Vatican Radio) “What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?” Pope Francis asks in his encyclical Laudato Si’ dedicated to caring for our common home.In an attempt to answer that question, a number of Catholic dioceses in Australia have begun rolling out a pioneering environmental programme which aims to cut energy consumption and costs by up to 80 percent. Using a combination of solar panels, LED lighting, battery storage and energy efficient air conditioning systems, the project not only reduces the carbon footprint of buildings but also promises big savings for its users.The project, entitled Eco community, has already been implemented in almost a hundred Catholic schools, early learning centres and other building in the dioceses of Townsville, Cairns and Darwin on the north east Australian coastline.This week the founders of Eco community, Jesuit-educated brothers Justin and Martin Oldfield, wer...
(Vatican Radio) The Lahore Development Authority has announced that none of the four churches coming in the route of the Orange Line Metro Train project will be affected as a result of the construction.An official handout issued on Wednesday said that the LDA was not acquiring any piece of land for the project nor boundary walls or any other structure of Cathedral Church, The Mall, and Nolakha Church, Nicholson Road."Rumors regarding demolition of the building of churches and protests on this pretext were totally baseless and uncalled for," the statement by the authority said.“About 1.5 kanals of open land and 62 meters length of boundary wall of the Saint Andrew’s Church, Nabha Road, will be temporarily used during construction period for underground track in the area. This temporarily used land will be restored to its original condition and boundary wall will also be reconstructed after the completion of construction works.“Almost 10 marlas of op...
Washington D.C., May 18, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Cardinal Robert Sarah enjoined Catholics to resist “ideological colonization” and the removal of God from society, in order to help the Church resist threats to the family and religious freedom around the world.Cardinal Sarah is a native of Guinea, in west Africa, and is prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.“Nowhere is [religious persecution] clearer than in the threat that societies are visiting on the family through a demonic 'gender ideology,' a deadly impulse that is being experienced in a world increasingly cut off from God through ideological colonialism,” the cardinal said in his keynote address at the May 17 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R- Wis.) and Sister Constance Veit of the Little Sisters of the Poor also addressed the crowd before Cardinal Sarah’s talk.Cardinal Sarah emphasized that indi...
Vatican City, May 18, 2016 / 08:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- If we don’t show mercy to others we shouldn’t expect to get it from God, Pope Francis said, stressing that while turning a blind eye to the poor might make life on earth easier, the eternal result will be much different.“To ignore the poor is to despise God! We must learn this well: to ignore the poor is the despise God,” the Pope said May 18.He spoke to the thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his general audience, continuing his ongoing catechesis on mercy as understood through scripture.Francis focused his speech on the parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus, a poor beggar who laid outside the man’s house every day, asking for the leftover scraps from his table.Both men eventually die, and the rich man, who ignored Lazarus and denied him the scraps, is tormented by constant fire and an insatiable thirst, whereas Lazarus is “carried by the angels” to heaven and ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Pope Francis accepted a proposal at theVatican May 12 to form a commission to study the possibility of women servingas deacons today, it generated plenty of buzz.The pope's agreementon the idea -- raised by members of the International Union of SuperiorsGeneral, the leadership group for superiors of women's orders -- wasinterpreted by some as a thumbs-up to women deacons and eventually womenpriests, which the Vatican spokesman was quick to rebut the next day.Pope Francis"did not say he intends to introduce a diaconal ordination forwomen," and he certainly did not speak about the ordination of womenpriests, said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.But even a studyof women deacons -- suggested by women and approved by the pope -- carries prettyhefty weight, some are saying.Even the contextof the possibility of this commission is important, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, directorof the Cu...
