Despite recent reports that the Catholic Church plans to canonize Mother Teresa of Kolkata next September, the Vatican on Wednesday denied that it has set a date to officially name the missionary as saint.
Earlier in the week, the Italian news agency AGI and L'Avvenire, the Italian bishops conference newspaper, sparked a flurry of Internet speculation by reporting that Mother Teresa, who founded the Missionaries of Charity and devoted her life to helping the poor in India's slums, could be canonized in September. Sept. 5, 2016, marks the 19th anniversary of her death.
LOS ANGELES – The owner of a landmark Hollywood comedy club claims that someone representing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's campaign pressured him to pull down a video segment featuring comics spoofing the former First Lady and Secretary of State – or risk facing consequences.
"They threatened me," said Jamie Masada, who founded the popular Laugh Factory in 1979, according to Judicial Watch, a conservative organization specializing in investigating government abuses of power. "I have received complaints before but never a call like this, threatening to put me out of business if I don't cut the video."
