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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...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Francisco Lara, Catholic SentinelBy Rocio RiosPORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- FatherRaul Marquez had never seen anything like it. Eight men walked to the frontdoor of St. Peter Church in Southeast Portland Jan. 29 and began bellowingduring the Spanish Mass.Dressed like hunters,they accused worshippers of not being true Christians, questioned the sexualmorals of the women and harangued the congregation for being made up ofimmigrants.The group, which calls itself "Street Preachers," has been setting up counter-protests at eventscriticizing President Donald Trump, including a late-January demonstration at PortlandInternational Airport.The harmony thatnaturally comes from Mass was shattered. The community, already living in fearbecause of federal immigration policy proposals, was shocked."All that Sunday I feltupset and didn't understand," said Father Marquez, a Colombian native who has beenpastor of St. Peter for five years. "How I was going to be happy while I heardand rememb...
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- With the federal government about to green-light the final phase of the Dakota Access pipeline, opponents of the project called Wednesday for protests around the world in an action they dubbed their "last stand."...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chris Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, announced Wednesday he will run for Illinois governor in 2018, bringing the instant name recognition of his family's political legacy to what's expected to be a sharply contested race to unseat Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- National Weather Service teams were studying scenes of severe weather damage in Louisiana and Mississippi on Wednesday to determine where tornadoes struck and just how powerful they were....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A fistfight on the Senate floor involving two Southern "gentlemen" gave rise to Rule 19, the arcane Senate directive that Republicans used more than a century later to silence Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. GOP lawmakers rebuked Warren Tuesday night for speaking against colleague and Attorney General-nominee Jeff Sessions....
President Donald Trump's assertion that the media often fails to cover terrorist attacks is false, but he's hardly alone in making the claim. The statement is just the latest by Trump to echo a website known for trafficking in dubious allegations of plots and cover-ups....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump criticized Nordstrom on Wednesday, tweeting that the department store chain that decided to stop selling his daughter's clothing and accessory line has treated her "so unfairly."...
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....
