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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis suffered a major blow Thursday when his top financial adviser, Cardinal George Pell, was charged in his native Australia with multiple counts of sexual assault from years ago, bringing a criminal case in the long-running abuse scandal inside the frescoed walls of the Vatican for the first time....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House on Thursday pressed ahead with legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, a key priority for President Donald Trump....
IRBID, Jordan (AP) -- A month before Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency, Mohammad Al-Haj Ali, a 28-year old Syrian with a second child on the way, was taking cultural sensitivity classes in Jordan to prepare to start a new life in Illinois....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Senate Republicans on Thursday considered keeping President Barack Obama's tax increase on wealthier people's investments and using the money to bolster their proposed health care subsidies in a bid to mollify moderate GOP lawmakers and salvage the party's struggling bill....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's Prime Minister declared an end to the IS caliphate Thursday after Iraqi forces captured the compound of a landmark mosque in Mosul that was blown up last week by the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights....
In a not too distant future, the Catholic Church in India’s extreme north-east hopes to have its first martyr saints. If the process of beatification and canonization proceeds smoothly, the martyrdom of French missionaries, Fathers Nicolas-Michel Krick and Augustin-Etienne Bourry, could be recognized by the Vatican. Their cause is being promoted primarily by Salesian Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s easternmost state where the two were martyred over 160 years ago. Frs. Krick and Bourry were members of the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (M.E.P), or the Society of the Paris Foreign Missions, an institute of diocesan priests zealous to spread the Gospel of Christ in Asia. One of their important goals or destinations was Tibet. Back then, the only way to Tibet was through NE India, Arunachal Pradesh today. In fact, it was through Frs. Krick and Bourry that Arunachal P...
The Catholic Bishop of the Territorial Prelature of the besieged city Marawi in southern Philippines, has dismissed as “ridiculous” proposals by terrorist gunmen to negotiate the release of his vicar. Speaking before a gathering of church people in the northern province of Pangasinan on 29 June, Bishop Edwin de la Pena said "there is no way we can dialogue" with extremists. The Prelate of Marawi said that for the past four decades the Catholic Church's response to war and conflicts in the southern region of Mindanao is dialogue. "We can only dialogue with like-minded people," he told the gathering called the Solidarity Congress for Persecuted Christians. The gathering was sponsored by “Aid to the Church in Need”, a pontifical foundation of the Catholic Church that supports victims of persecution. Islamist Maute terrorists who claim to have links with the Islamic State (IS), attacked the city of Marawi on M...
London, England, Jun 29, 2017 / 06:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Methodist Church in Britain and the Church of England announced Sunday that each ecclesial community is considering a proposal that would enable the sharing of clergy between them.Jonathan Baker, the Anglican bishop of Fulham, said that “(t)he separation between Anglicans and Methodists in Great Britain is a tear in the fabric of the Body of Christ. The proposals made in this report are offered as a means of helping to repair that tear.”The proposal, Mission and Ministry in Covenant, would in effect largely end the approximately 200-year-old division between the communities.Methodism began in the 18th century as a movement within the Church of England, and broke off from the Anglican communion shortly after the 1791 death of one of its founders, John Wesley.The Methodist Church in Britain currently ordains no bishops, and is instead headed by a conference, of whom the president is an ordained minister and the...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Proclaiming his innocence after beingcharged with sexual abuse, Australian Cardinal George Pell said, "I'mlooking forward finally to having my day in court.""I'm innocent of these charges. They are false. Thewhole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me," he said June 29 during abrief news conference in the Vatican press office.Greg Burke, director of the Vatican press office, said PopeFrancis had granted Cardinal Pell a leave of absence from his position asprefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy so that he can work on hisdefense.Cardinal Pell, Burke added, will not participate in anypublic liturgies while his case is being considered."These matters have been under investigation now for twoyears," Cardinal Pell told the press. "There's been relentlesscharacter assassination, a relentless character assassination, and for morethan a month claims that a decision on whether to lay charges was imminent."Without giving...
