CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a Chicago court.
Jason Van Dyke faces six counts of first-degree murder and one of official misconduct in the 17-year-old's death.
(RNS) — Part of the appeal and notoriety that Pope Francis gained during the first two years of his pontificate came from his penchant for using his cellphone to call people out of the blue, from a struggling single mother to his cobbler back in Argentina to an ostracized bishop, and even the odd journalist.
Yet for a while it seemed the "cold-call" pope had gone into hibernation.
