Associated PressApril 5, 2020
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Traditions of Christians' Holy Week muted by coronavirus crisis.
Tag: pope francis
Associated PressApril 5, 2020Associated PressMarch 15, 2020
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Ceremonies will go ahead but without public attendance.
Associated PressMarch 7, 2020
6min321
Italy, with more than 3,800 cases, is the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe.
Guest AuthorJune 15, 2019
4min320
Existing Church law in the United States already requires notifying public authorities.
Staff ReportsMarch 25, 2018
5min389
Pope Francis, starting Holy Week services leading to Easter, urged young people on Sunday to keep shouting and not allow the older generations to silence their voices or anesthetize their idealism. Francis spoke a day after hundreds of thousands of young Americans and their supporters answered a call to action from survivors of last month’s […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 14, 2017
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Is Pope Francis a Catholic? Or is the Pontiff a communist? Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford has a take. “I am a Catholic and he is a Communist,” Gulliford said of Pope Francis on Facebook Thursday, reacting to an online publication (M2 Voice) that said the Pope asserted that “world government must rule the United States ‘for their own […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 13, 2017
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Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford got shut out of Council committees for the next year, a consequence of having worked against the election of new Council President Anna Brosche. But that’s not stopping Gulliford from offering insights into not just local issues, but the global scene. A recent example of that hit Facebook Thursday morning, when Gulliford […]
Associated PressMay 27, 2017
9min219
Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution, scientists said. That’s because America contributes so much to rising temperatures. President Donald Trump, who once proclaimed global warming a Chinese hoax, said in a tweet Saturday that he would make […]
Associated PressMay 20, 2017
10min192
President Donald Trump arrived in the Middle East on Saturday, touching down in Saudi Arabia to begin his first trip abroad, a visit aimed at forging stronger alliances to combat terrorism while seeking to push past the series of controversies threatening to engulf his young administration. Trump flew to Riyadh overnight on Air Force One […]
Staff ReportsDecember 31, 2016
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President Barack Obama is the man most admired by Americans 2016. In a new Gallup Poll, 22 percent of respondents mentioned Obama in response to the open-ended question. Coming in second was President-elect Donald Trump at 15 percent. This marks Obama’s ninth consecutive time at the top of the most-admired list, but with a margin […]