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NEW YORK (AP) -- Where the White House saw a father standing up for his daughter, an ethics expert saw an implicit threat....
SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal appeals court is considering whether to reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban, but another aspect of his executive order is still in effect - a review of visa procedures to ensure they are strict enough....
PHOENIX (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday on charges that he provided support to the Islamic State group by helping two followers with an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas that resulted in a deadly shootout with police....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was elected Somalia's president on Wednesday, declaring a new "era of unity" as he took on the daunting task of bringing the long-chaotic country its first fully functioning central government in a quarter-century....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The Army on Wednesday granted the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline formal permission to lay pipe under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed $3.8 billion project....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The turbulent national debate over race, gender and free speech consumed the normally staid Senate on Wednesday after the GOP majority voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, abruptly elevating her celebrity status at a moment when liberals are hungry for a leader to take on Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed the court that is deliberating his immigration and refugee executive order as being "so political," part of a relentless pounding of the judiciary branch that prompted a rebuke from his nominee for the Supreme Court....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general in the Trump administration despite fierce Democratic opposition to the Alabama Republican over his record on civil rights and immigration....
Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 8, 2017 / 10:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic weekly of the Archdiocese of Mexico City criticized the city’s new constitution, saying that “it does not recognize what is most valuable for any human being, even from the maternal womb, the dignity of life.”In their editorial published Feb. 5, Desde la Fe described the new constitution as “an illegitimate document, hasty, a recipe of ideologies and juridical absurdities.”The voting on the articles of the Constitution ended on Jan. 31. The document will go into full effect on Sept. 17, 2018.For the Catholic weekly, what ought to be a foundational document ended up being “hijacked by intolerant, murderous and absurd leftist positions by recognizing rights where they ought not to be and not recognizing those which ought to be in the legal document.”“The debate on the right to life was unparalleled. By the imposition of the majority, the first of all rights was le...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Andy Telli, Tennessee RegisterBy Andy TelliNASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) --A wave of demographic change is sweeping through the Catholic Church in theUnited States. According to projections, in 20 years, half of AmericanCatholics will be Hispanic.TheDiocese of Nashville, like many dioceses, is already seeing this wave rollingtoward middle Tennessee. One recent study found that 34 percent of theCatholics in the diocese self-identify as Hispanic, said Sister Mary JohannaMellody, a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation inNashville whose assignment is to work in Hispanic ministry."It'sthe future of our church," Sister Mary Johanna said of the growing Hispanicpopulation.Whilethe number of Latino families in the diocese and the country is growing, thenumber of Hispanic students enrolled in Catholic schools hasn't kept pace. Ofthe 14.6 million school-age children in the United States, 8 million areHispanic, Sister Mary Johanna said. Of those 8 million, 93 pe...
