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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- As Oregon and Kentucky queue up to vote in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, the pall of a divisive state party convention in Nevada hangs over the race....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his condolences for the death of Cardinal Giovanni Coppa, a long-serving diplomat and official of the Roman Curia. Cardinal Coppa was one of the chief Latinists of the II Vatican Council. He wrote several volumes on St. Ambrose of Milan, the Gospels, and the Fathers of the Church.As Nuncio, he served in Czechloslovakia (later the Czech Republic).In his telegram, addressed to the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Pope Francis remembers Cardinal Coppa as a dedicated and pastorally sensitive servant of the Church and the Papacy. “As Assessor of the Secretariat of State and as Delegate for the Pontifical Diplomatic Representations,” writes Pope Francis, “he showed pastoral wisdom and careful attention to the needs of others.” The Holy Father goes on to say, “When he was sent as Pontifical Representative to the Nunciature in Prague, he gave witness to a particularly intense...
(Vatican Radio) Saying Jesus' path is serving others, Pope Francis urged Christians on Tuesday to overcome the lure of worldliness and human ambition and warned against social climbers who are tempted to destroy the other in order to reach the top. His remarks came during his homily at the morning Mass celebrated in the Santa Marta residence. The gospel reading where Jesus’ disciples were arguing among themselves over who was the greatest was used by the Pope for his reflections about the dangers of power, money, ambition and vanity. He noted that whereas Jesus was warning his disciples about his coming humiliation and death, they were concerned with worldly matters such as who would become the most powerful among them.Christians must overcome the temptation to be social climbers, seeking powerIn response to the apostles’ arguments, Pope Francis reminded of Jesus' warning to his disciples that "if anyone wishes to be first he shall be the last of all ...
Zagreb, Croatia, May 17, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA).- Was the controversial Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac a target of decades-long communist smears and disinformation? One researcher of the period says the facts can counter false claims about the beatified cardinal's wartime record.“Stepinac was and remains an enormous hero in Croatia today,” Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak told CNA.“Just about every church you go into there’s a picture or a statue or a painting of Stepinac. He’s truly a national hero over there. And he did stand against the Ustashe. He stood against the communists as well. They imprisoned him.”Cardinal Stepinac was the Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his death in 1960 at the age of 61.In Yugoslavia during the Second World War, the pro-Nazi Ustashe movement came to power under leader Ante Pavelic after the Axis occupied the country.“They were very vicious. They were considered worse than the Nazis in their persecution of Jews, of S...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Oklahoma City center Steven Adams has apologized for describing Golden State's guards as "quick little monkeys" in an interview with ESPN following the Thunder's 108-102 win over the Warriors in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals....
HAARLEM, Netherlands (AP) -- With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country is looking at new ways to fill its prisons. The government has let Belgium and Norway put prisoners in empty cells and now, amid the huge flow of migrants into Europe, several Dutch prisons have been temporarily pressed into service as asylum-seeker centers....
VIENNA (AP) -- World and regional powers met Tuesday in an attempt to overcome stubborn divisions among Syrian factions that have led to the rise of Islamic extremists and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since violence turned to war five years ago....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The latest on a wave of militants attacks in Iraq as government forces battle the Islamic State group (all times local):...
Regenerative Medicine: Dr. James Allison of MD Anderson Cancer Cr on promise of new cancer therapies
(Vatican Radio) Over the past five years or more, cancer researchers have made significant strides into finding a cure to the disease which claims 8.2 million lives a year.Dr. James Allison is Chair of the Immunology Department and Director of Immunotherapy at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas, one of the world’s leading research institutions in the sector. Dr. Allison participated at a recent Vatican conference on Regenerative Medicine 28-30 April 2016 where he spoke to Vatican Radio’s Tracey McClure about promising new therapies in the treatment of cancer.Researchers like Dr. Allison are excited about the potential of the body’s own immune system to combat – and beat – cancer, and are developing new and personalized therapies to make it more effective.Listen to the interview: Taking off the immune system brakes for a “wow” momentJA: "The ‘wow’ moment in my research was actually, well ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has given an exclusive interview to the French Catholic La Croix newspaper. In the broad-ranging conversation with journalists Guillaume Goubert and Sébastien Maillard for La Croix, Pope Francis discussed matters ranging from healthy secularism and the right way to understand and live according to the Church’s universal missionary mandate, to the idea of Europe in relation to the migration crisis and the possibility of peaceful coexistence among Muslims and Christians.He also addressed the clergy sex abuse crisis, offering considerations about an ongoing investigation – widely covered in France – involving the Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, whose handling of the case of one pedophile priest in particular has been subject to scrutiny and criticism.“It is true that it is not easy to judge the facts after decades, in another context,” said Pope Francis.Nevertheless, “For the Church in this area, ...
