Former missions and cemetery director, Msgr. Richard Zenk, dies at age 89
Msgr. Richard E. Zenk, who served the longest tenure of a diocesan priest in some capacity at the chancery offices, died Nov. 15, 2016, at a Sioux City hospital.
View ArticleCollected Department Releases: Workshop to Strengthen Faith-Based...
The Secretary's Office of Religion and Global Affairs, the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, and the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See -- in partnership with the...
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George Lowe and Ed Cotter look over photos from the 1951 climbing expedition to Nepal with Ed Hillary. Photo / File ONLY TWO FOR EVEREST by Lyn McKinnon Another intriguing angle on the ascent of...
View ArticleParties make their cases to Italy president for new leader
The Italian Carabinieri band performs before President Sergio Mattarella starts consultations at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy, December 8, 2016. Political parties made their cases to Italy's...
View ArticleGolden Age Sci-Fi 75
One in a series of 75 posts about the best science fiction novels published during the genre's so-called Golden Age . For the complete Golden Age Sci-Fi 75 list, click here .
View ArticleChristmas Concert at St. Joseph Church, Marblehead
The members of St. Joseph Catholic Church Choir, 822 Barclay Street, Marblehead, will host a Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 18, at 3 p.m. Come and listen to the sounds of Christmas. This concert...
View ArticleWhole-Genome Characterization and Strain Comparison of VT2f-Producing ...
Emerg Infect Dis. 2016;22 :2078-2086. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2212.160017 Grande L, Michelacci V, BondA R, et al. Whole-Genome Characterization and Strain Comparison of VT2f-Producing Escherichia...
View ArticleItaly seeks relief from political crisis as President asks Finance...
ROME, Italy - Italy's President Sergio Mattarella has asked the country's Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni to form a new government. Gentiloni was chosen as the replacement to take Italy out of the...
View ArticleA Californian Transplant's Guide to Italy
Weekend With is an ongoing Instagram series that features people we like photographing places we'd like to be. Follow @thecut on Instagram to join in, and tag your photos with #weekendwith when you...
View ArticleBl. Antonio Grassi
Oldest child in a devout family. Antonio's father, Vincenzo Grassi, died when the boy was only 10 years old, but he managed to pass on his devotion to Our Lady of Loreto.
View ArticleCiao Italia
Mary Ann Esposito, host of the longest-running cooking show on public television, travels around the United States and Rome, Italy in search of recipes that can be prepared in thirty-minutes or less...
View ArticleItaly's new government looks much like just-ended one
ROME Italy's latest government was formed and rapidly sworn in Monday, a center-left coalition headed by new Premier Paolo Gentiloni and strikingly similar in makeup to the just-ended one that Matteo...
View ArticleEnergy Dept balks at Trump request for climate change names
A child embraces a globe shaped balloon ahead of the start of the 2015 Paris World Climate Change Conference, known as the COP21 summit, in Rome, Italy , November 29, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Alessandro...
View ArticleOldest early human footprints suggest males had several 'wives'
Three has become five. Laetoli in northern Tanzania is the site of iconic ancient footprints, capturing the moment - 3.66 million years ago - when three members of Lucy's species strode out across the...
View ArticleBEDLAM Announces First Show of 2017 Season
BEDLAM follows up its award-winning, critically-acclaimed, sold-out production of SENSE & SENSIBILITY with CRY HAVOC!, written and performed by Stephan Wolfert and directed by Eric Tucker , at New...
View ArticleItalian gang rapist deported from U.S.
Naples, December 14 - An Italian lawyer with a gang rape conviction was arrested Wednesday at Rome's Fiumicino Airport after his deportation from the United States, where he had been a fugitive for two...
View ArticleItalian PM wins Senate confidence vote as new referendum looms
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won the backing of the fragmented Senate on Wednesday, allowing his government to formally take office as a new threat emerged to the legacy of predecessor Matteo...
View ArticleRaytheon awarded $459 million Pentagon contract
Tucked inside a large forest near the drying Andaraweva irrigation reservoir, a well-tended plantation of young banana trees is growing strongly despite dry weather. ROME Italy's opposition 5-Star...
View ArticleRomina Johnson
Romina Johnson is a London-based R&B, soul, UK garage and 2-step singer. She was born in Rome to an American father: the musician Wesley Johnson, and an Italian mother.
View Article9 Amazing Photos of the Last 'Supermoon' of 2016
Skywatchers around the world watched the rise and set of December's full moon, known as the "Cold Moon." It was the last supermoon of the year and the grand finale to the three-month supermoon trifecta .
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