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LONDON (AP) -- A timeline of key events related to Britain's decision to leave the European Union:...
LONDON (AP) -- Britain is set to formally file for divorce from the European Union, ending a 44-year relationship following the decision made by U.K. voters in a referendum nine months ago....
Sacramento, Calif., Mar 28, 2017 / 08:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The California Catholic Conference has announced that it is sponsoring a bill to help attract and retain teachers in response to the state's shortage of K-12 educators.“Additional measures are needed in order to assure that our new teachers are given the appropriate preferential option that supports their development and commitment in their noble profession,” the conference said in a March 16 statement.This “in turn translates to better service and better education of our youth.”The conference, tied to the state's Catholic conference of bishops, is the official voice of the Church in California's legislative arena. It is proposing a bill which would give greater tax breaks to new teachers in the process of receiving their permanent credentials.  Besides paying back student loans and serving at the lower end of the salary scale, new teachers must “enroll in costly induction an...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's brutal street gangs have been involved in every kind of criminal activity imaginable: drugs, extortion, prostitution, murder, kidnapping....
SPUR, Texas (AP) -- Three storm chasers were killed when their vehicles collided at a rural crossroads during severe West Texas storms on Tuesday....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California prosecutors on Tuesday charged two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood with 15 felonies, saying they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent....
Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2017 / 02:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a death penalty case with national implications, the Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a Texas court ruling that a man with possible intellectual disabilities was eligible for execution.The Catholic Mobilizing Network hailed the Court’s ruling in Moore v. Texas as “the needed step towards justice for some of the most vulnerable in our society” and a “victory for life.”“In affirming a person with intellectual disabilities should not be executed, the Court made it clear that states must uphold the needs of all of its citizens,” said Karen Clifton, executive director of the network. “CMN applauds the Court for calling attention to this grave injustice and demanding that we do better to provide justice for all involved in the legal system.”In Moore v. Texas, a man Bobby James Moore had been convicted in 1980 – and again in 2001 on a retrial – of robbing a con...
Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2017 / 03:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A new high-ranking official at the Department of Health and Human Services could give the agency a significant shift in how it treats religious freedom and life issues.“Roger Severino, a seasoned champion of religious liberty and the pro-life cause, is just the right person to correct the course of HHS’s efforts at enforcing anti-discrimination principles in federal law,” said Matthew Franck, director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute.Franck spoke to CNA following Severino’s appointment as director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights.Severino, a Harvard Law graduate, comes to HHS from the Heritage Foundation, where, according to his bio, he worked on religious freedom, marriage, and life issues and directed the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity.He wrote about concern...
Houston, Texas, Mar 28, 2017 / 03:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy See directed last week that the oldest Catholic parish of the Anglican Use, located in San Antonio, will be transferred from the local archdiocese into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.“Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church and its school, the Atonement Academy, have been transferred to the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, effective March 21,” read a statement. The ordinariate of St. Peter's chair is a special ecclesial jurisdiction for Catholics in the United States and Canada who were nurtured in the Anglican tradition or whose faith has been renewed by the Ordinariate.“At the direction of the Holy See, all parishes of the Pastoral Provision are to be incorporated into the Ordinariate,” read the March 21 communique.Our Lady of the Atonement parish had been founded in 1983 as part of the “pastoral provision” established by St. John Paul...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to theUnited States, gets plenty of questions about Pope Francis.A March 27 discussion atGeorgetown University, sponsored by the university's Initiative on CatholicSocial Thought and Public Life, was no exception. The nuncio, who sat onstagewith John Carr, the initiative's director, was asked about the pope's keyissues and his impact in the four years since his election. Instead of emphasizing the pope'sspecial qualities or accomplishments, Archbishop Pierre, who has been in theVatican diplomatic corps for almost 40 years, stressed how Catholics are calledto view the pope and essentially work with him in the mission of spreading theGospel.He told the audience, nearlyfilling a campus auditorium, that it is not a question of whether the pope isgood or bad or if one agrees with him or not. The issue, for Catholics, is todiscern what the Holy Spirit is saying through the pope."We have to pay a lot ofa...
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