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A district attorney in North Carolina is asking for a state investigation of two of his assistant prosecutors who are members of a North Carolina church that former congregants say beat members and derailed criminal investigations....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Many American women stayed home from work, joined rallies or wore red Wednesday to demonstrate how vital they are to the U.S. economy, as International Women's Day was observed with a multitude of events around the world....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details it uncovered about CIA hacking tools with leading technology companies whose flagship products and services were targeted by the U.S. government's hacker-spies....
(Vatican Radio) Monsignor Janusz S. Urbanczyk on Wednesday spoke about gender equality in the military at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).The Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE said, “The Holy See fully supports the political, economic, social and cultural participation of women alongside and on the same level as men.”Msgr. Urbanczyk said the Holy See cautioned against “reducing the role of women… to a mere matter of numbers or percentages”.He also reminded those present of Pope Francis’ definition of the feminine genius: “the moral and spiritual strength of a woman” that compliments the moral and spiritual strength of a man – shows itself in a particular way in “[e]ncouraging others to promote sensitivity, understanding and dialogue in settling conflicts big and small, in healing wounds, in nurturing all life at every level of society, and in embodying the m...
Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 06:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. Roy Edward Campbell, Jr., a former vice-president for Bank of America, as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington.“All of us in the Archdiocese are deeply grateful that our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has named Father Roy Campbell to be an auxiliary bishop in our Church of Washington,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, said in a statement March 8.Father Campbell, who was born, raised and who has worked and served in the archdiocese, “brings to his new ministry recognized talent and demonstrated ability. He also bears witness to the great cultural and ethnic richness of the Church of Washington reflected in all of the faithful, lay, religious and clergy.”“Personally I look forward to continuing to work closely with our new auxiliary bishop, who over the years has made significant contributions to the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/David AgrenBy David AgrenFRONTERA COMALAPA, Mexico (CNS)-- In the early 1980s, parishioners at the Santo Nino de Atocha parish in thistown on the Mexico-Guatemala border opened their church and homes to refugees fleeingcivil war in Guatemala. Three decades later, they're preparing for anotherinflux of asylum seekers -- this time from countries farther south as CentralAmericans seek safety from the gang violence gripping El Salvador and Honduras."The parish has always beena welcoming place for migrants," said Sister Maria del Carmen Diaz, a nunworking in the parish. "People here don't have much money. But they offerwhat they can and, what little they have, they share. There's a sense ofsolidarity."The parish opened the St.Raphael shelter for migrants in 2011, but it went unused as Central Americans,fresh from crossing the border, tended to move on quickly and head north towardthe U.S. border. But the shelter was recently expanded -- in cooperation with theJesuit Migr...
By Simon CaldwellMANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- TheCatholic Church has predicted that British pharmacists could be forced todispense lethal drugs under plans to prohibit conscientious objection on thegrounds of religion.Proposals by the GeneralPharmaceutical Council, the regulatory body that sets professional standardsfor the industry throughout Britain, were criticized by the Bishops'Conference of England and Wales and the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, a Catholicinstitute serving the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The pharmaceutical councilannounced in December that it wished to change "the expectations ofpharmacy professionals when their religion, personal values or beliefs might ...impact on their ability to provide services, and shift the balance in favor ofthe needs and rights of the person in their care." It intends to order pharmaciststo "take responsibility for ensuring that person-centered care is notcompromised because of personal values and beliefs.""We unde...
By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Calling health care "a vital concern for nearly every person in the country," the U.S. Catholic bishops said March 8 they will be reviewing closely a measure introduced in the House March 6 to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act."Discussions on health care reform have reached a level of intensity which is making open and fruitful dialogue difficult, even while most people recognize that improvements to the health care system are needed to ensure a life-giving and sustainable model for both the present and future," said a letter to House members signed by the chairmen of four U.S. bishops' committees."Given the magnitude and importance of the task before us, we call for a new spirit of cooperation for the sake of the common good," they wrote.The letter was signed by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman, Hoc Committee ...
Scarlett Johansson's husband was "shocked" by the star's divorce filing and sees the move as a "pre-emptive strike" in a battle over custody of the couple's toddler daughter, his lawyer said....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Police in New Hampshire say a woman in labor demanded to be injected with heroin and methamphetamine before 911 could be called....
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