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Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2017 / 12:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Planned Parenthood clinics had monthly quotas for abortions or abortion referrals, according to two former clinic workers in a new Live Action investigative video.“I trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion; to have it at Planned Parenthood, because it counts towards our goal,” Sue Thayer, a former Planned Parenthood manager at Storm Lake, Iowa, revealed in an interview with the pro-life group Live Action.“We would try to get the appointment scheduled for abortion before they left our clinic.”Thayer was dismissed from her job with Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in 2008, and is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the affiliate. The Storm Lake clinic at which she worked closed in 2012.Her lawsuit claims Planned Parenthood of the Heartland defrauded Medicaid by billing for birth control before it had been prescribed and overcharging, and that th...
Vatican City, Feb 7, 2017 / 12:55 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis could meet with President Donald Trump at the end of May.The British newspaper The Tablet, citing diplomatic sources, said the two will meet during President Trump’s visit to Italy.Trump will go to the G7 summit of world leaders meeting held May 26-27 in Taorima, Sicily.The president and the Pope have sometimes been put at odds.During a Feb. 18, 2016 in-flight press conference, Reuters reporter Philip Pullella asked the Pope to respond to Donald Trump’s immigration stand.Pope Francis answered: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.”The pontiff added he would “give the benefit of the doubt” to the political candidate.One week prior, Trump had bashed Pope Francis as a “pawn” for the Mexican government and “a very political person” who does not understand the problems o...
By IRVING, Texas (CNS) -- The BoyScouts of America's new policy to accept members based on their gender identitywill have no impact on Scouting units sponsored by the Catholic Church, said theNational Catholic Committee on Scouting.The Boy Scouts announced Jan. 30that effective immediately, the Texas-based organization will determine membershipeligibility for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts on a youth's gender identity asindicated on the membership application. Previously, the policy basedeligibility on the gender indicated on a youth's birth certificate.The change in policy "has noimpact on the operation and program delivery of Scouting program(s) in Catholic-charteredunits," said a Feb. 4 statement issued by the Catholic Scouting committee."Scouting serves the CatholicChurch through the charter concept, which is similar to a franchise," it said. "Theunits chartered to a Catholic institution are owned by that organization. TheBSA has stipulated that religious partners will continue to ha...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Call it lifestyles of the ultra-rich: A new mega mansion up for sale in Los Angeles' exclusive Bel Air neighborhood comes with just about everything you could dream of....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Melania Trump has said little about what she intends to do with her prominent position. But in new court documents, her lawyers say that the "multi-year term" during which she "is one of the most photographed women in the world" could mean millions of dollars for her personal brand....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday he has "serious, serious concerns" about President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee after their meeting, complaining that the federal judge "avoided answers like the plague."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch gave up a $1 million a year paycheck when he left his private law practice a decade ago for less financially rewarding work as a government lawyer and then a judge....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A lawyer calls it the "third-shift terror squad": a band of white officers who patrol the South Side of Providence at night and, residents say, strike fear into blacks and Latinos by harassing and in some cases beating them....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A new Israeli law legalizing dozens of unlawfully built West Bank settlement outposts came under heavy criticism on Tuesday from some of Israel's closest allies, as local rights groups prepared to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the measure....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- President Donald Trump's travel ban faced its biggest legal test yet Tuesday as a panel of federal judges prepared to hear arguments from the administration and its opponents about two fundamentally divergent views of the executive branch and the court system....
