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IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Dominican Sister Marie Bernadette Thompsoncan't help but see things through a teacher's eyes after spending eight yearsteaching elementary and high school students and belonging to an order whose charismis education and the faith formation of young people.But the42-year-old sister, who has been council coordinator for the Council of MajorSuperiors of Women Religious since 2014, also is not opposed to being a studentparticularly when it comes to learning new ways to engage others in the faithand spread the Gospel message. She hopes to pick up some pointers from other churchleaders from around the country this summer at the "Convocation ofCatholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" July 1-4 in Orlando,Florida. Theconvocation, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is aninvitation-only event meant to give the 3,000 participants expected to attend abetter understanding of what it means to be mission...
BOSTON (AP) -- While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his....
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The governor of Oregon has pardoned a fourth-grade boy who swiped a hazelnut and a pen during a recent tour of the state Capitol....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is revealing her new look as a woman, after being freed from a Kansas military prison and a 35-year sentence for leaking classified materials....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazilian President Michel Temer on Thursday rejected calls for his resignation, saying he will fight allegations that he endorsed the paying of hush money to a former lawmaker jailed for corruption....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- To the White House and its supporters, the big story in Washington isn't the investigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia. It's about leakers working to undermine the president....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump persists in suggesting that his 2016 campaign has been exonerated on the question of whether it colluded with Russians, even as a powerful investigation forms to look into that matter and multiple other inquiries press on....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's maiden international trip, a five-stop marathon across the Middle East and Europe, has long loomed as crucial first test abroad for the chaos-courting president....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brimming with resentment, President Donald Trump fervently denied on Thursday that his campaign had collaborated with Russia or that he'd tried to kill an FBI probe of the issue, contending that "even my enemies" recognize his innocence and declaring himself the most unfairly hounded president in history....
Toronto, Canada, May 18, 2017 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Legalized euthanasia must still be fought – and that fight requires a broad argument that can persuade people of all beliefs, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller told a Canadian audience May 15.Euthanasia is not only wrong in itself, but its legalization creates “toxic and deadly pathologies that disproportionately afflict the weakest members of society,” the cardinal told the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute at a gathering at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica.A clear understanding of legal assisted suicide’s individual and social wrongs is needed to persuade Canadians to take the steps to reverse the “dangerous legal error” of the Canadian Supreme Court and Parliament, which recently legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide nationwide.He voiced confidence that all persons of good will should be able to see “the profound and inevitable social harms that fall dispropor...
