18

 Trump’s Hollywood Star Smashed with Sledge Hammer   Vandals have severely damaged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Los Angeles police were called to the star before dawn Wednesday to investigate the damage  which appears to have been made with a sledge hammer. A police spokesperson told the website FOX411  that the Chamber of Commerce hoped to fix the star within a few hours. "Investigators are looking at [a] felony vandalism [charge] because of the value which the Chamber of...

 Pope Calls for Compassion for 'Imperfect' Catholics   Pope Francis has urged compassion toward "imperfect" Catholics, such as those who are divorced and seeking to remarry. In a 260-page treatise titled "The Joy of Love," which the Vatican released Friday, Pope Francis said, "No one can be condemned forever because that is not the logic of the Gospel." The document covers a range of issues relating to sex and marriage and was created from two gatherings of  Catholic bishops who met to discuss family issues in 2014 and 2015. Current Catholic teaching does not explicitly allow divorced Catholics to receive communion and remarriage is only possible if they obtain an  annulment of their first marriage. The pope did not issue a new law or regulation guiding Catholic marriage. He instead appeared to endorse a case by case basis for dealing with the remarriage of Catholic s, writing that he could "not provide a new set of general rules... applicabl...