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Hours before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, Pope Francis expressed his hope for the peace and safety of the country's citizens.
LES CAYES, Haiti — The magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Haiti collapsed the bishop's residence in Les Cayes, killing one priest, leaving one missing and injuring Cardinal Chibly Langlois.
On behalf of the people of the Diocese of Arlington, I express deep sorrow and heartfelt prayers for the Haitian people who have lost loved ones and are suffering from the ongoing devastating effects of the massive earthquake that struck the country on Saturday. In this time of tragedy, turmoil, and fear, we stand in solidarity with the Church in Haiti and all those who are providing aid to those most in need.
For more than 20 years, members of the U.S. military, the intelligence community, government contractors, missionaries and others worked tirelessly to establish peace in Afghanistan and provide for the critical needs of the Afghan people. With great pain and concern, we watch as the Taliban has seized Afghanistan.
VATICAN CITY — U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has been hospitalized and put on a ventilator less than one week after telling people he tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.
In 1916 Brazil, an intrepid British researcher (Emily Blunt) forms an unlikely alliance with a fast-talking Amazon River steamboat captain (Dwayne Johnson) and, aided by her brother (Jack Whitehall), they set off in quest of a mystical tree the healing flowers of which she believes will revolutionize medicine. They're pursued by an eccentric German prince (Jesse Plemons) who thinks the same magic petals will give his homeland victory in World War I.
Intentionally over-the-top, gleefully gory mayhem overwhelms all other considerations in writer-director James Gunn's DC Comics-based follow-up to 2016's "Suicide Squad."
Relief workers in Haiti said the Aug. 14 earthquake might not be as catastrophic as the 2010 quake that was closer to the capital, but recovery will be complicated because the quake came on the heels of July's presidential assassination, of an economic and ongoing political crisis, the coronavirus pandemic and an active storm season now underway.
I submitted two articles tonight, and moments after I hit send, I was struck by the parallel. Sure, they both involved retired Catholics. But in my focus on the specifics of their work — the intricate toothpick sculptures of a Minnesota grandpa, the winsome travel guide written by a New Mexico single — I’d nearly missed how their paths mirrored each other.
