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Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 19, 2017 / 01:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Maximiliano Acuña is a garbage collector in Buenos Aires who earlier this year was injured in a serious accident that left him without legs.On Tuesday, he was surprised to receive an unexpected phone call from Pope Francis.The Pope offered words of encouragement, 33-year-old Acuña told the Argentine Morfi Television program.On March 22, the father of five children had been collecting garbage in a Buenos Aires neighborhood when he was struck by a car going some 80 miles an hour.As a result of the accident, both of his legs had to be amputated.A Buenos Aires legislator, Gustavo Vera, decided to tell Pope Francis what happened in an e-mail, in which he explained that the “doctors' prognosis was for the worst.”“In the best case scenario, he was expected to be in a vegetative state or to have serious neuronal damage, and in the worst case it was going to be the end for him,” Vera ...
IMAGE: Catholic News ServiceBy Josephine von DohlenWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Catholic Facebook pages whose sponsors reported had been suddenlyremoved late July 17 were restored just over 24 hours later.Twenty-oneBrazilian-based Catholic Facebook pages, such as a Papa Francisco Brazil page,as well as four English sites, could not publish content July 18 due to Facebooksilently taking down their sites. Millions of followers were affected,according to ChurchPOP, a Christian Culture brand website."All pageshave now been restored. This incident was triggered accidentally by a spamdetection tool. We sincerely apologize for the issue this has caused." aFacebook spokesperson told Catholic News Service in an email sent late afternoon July 19.Amongthose with pages who were affected was the executive director ofRelevant Radio, Father Francis J. Hoffman, affectionately known as "FatherRocky," who has 3.95 million likes from Facebook fans around the world.RelevantRadio reported that on July 17, all the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Industry has made more than 9.1 billion tons of plastic since 1950 and there's enough left over to bury Manhattan under more than two miles of trash, according to a new cradle-to-grave global study....
LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) -- O.J. Simpson once thrilled crowds as he ran for touchdowns and hurdled airport seats in car rental ads to achieve Hollywood celebrity before he was acquitted of murder in the 1995 "trial of the century" in Los Angeles....
PARIS (AP) -- A French woman captured in the Iraqi city of Mosul with her four children is facing possible prosecution in Iraq for allegedly collaborating with the Islamic State group, in a test case for how governments handle the families of foreign fighters now that the extremists are in retreat....
CHICAGO (AP) -- An Illinois sheriff's office said Wednesday that it has identified a Minnesota runaway as one of the victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can strictly enforce its ban on refugees, but at the same time is leaving in place a weakened travel ban that includes grandparents among relatives who can help visitors from six mostly Muslim countries get into the U.S....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- An Australian woman who heard what she thought was a sexual assault behind her home called 911 not once but twice before she was fatally shot, concerned that officers had the wrong address when no one immediately responded....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans overwhelmingly want lawmakers of both parties to work out health care changes, with only 13 percent supporting Republican moves to repeal "Obamacare" absent a replacement, according to a new poll....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess without sending him an "Obamacare" repeal bill to sign....
