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Lansing, Mich., Jun 1, 2017 / 08:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic farmer Steve Tennes says the city of East Lansing, Mich. illegally barred his family-run farm from the city farmer's market because of his family's religious beliefs about marriage.“We have attended the City of East Lansing Farmer's Market for the past seven years. We have always lovingly provided everything we grow and make at our farm to customers of all beliefs and backgrounds,” Tennes' Country Mill Farms said on its Facebook page May 31.“We enjoyed a great working relationship with the City of East Lansing up until 2016 when city officials learned about our family's religious beliefs that we stated on our Facebook page.”The farm, based outside the city in Charlotte, Mich., charged that city officials' new policy bars them from the market “solely because we publicly stated beliefs that they do not like.”Tennes' farm has filed a lawsuit against the city...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Kevin Durant drove through the lane untouched for dazzling dunks time and again, finishing with 38 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in his first NBA Finals for Golden State and leading the Warriors past LeBron James and the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, 113-91 on Thursday night in Game 1....
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- Ananya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Puerto Rican nationalist recently freed from prison has agreed to step aside from any formal role in New York City's Puerto Rican Day parade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to immediately reinstate its ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, saying the U.S. will be safer if the policy is put in place....
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Washington D.C., Jun 1, 2017 / 03:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic leaders around the world expressed disappointment as President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. was pulling out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.“The decision now, to pull out, this for us is something we hoped would not have happened,” Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told reporters on Wednesday.“It’s a global public good that needs to be taken care of,” he continued, speaking at a media briefing before he addressed an audience Wednesday evening at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on “Vatican Perspectives on Care for Creation, Economic Injustice, the Refugee Crisis, and Peace.”Also in advance of President Trump’s announcement on Thursday afternoon, a U.S. bishop pressed the government to honor its commitment to the Paris climate agreement.The Paris Agreement was an international climate accord r...
Vatican City, Jun 1, 2017 / 04:04 pm (CNA).- With a visit to the tombs of Father Lorenzo Milani and Father Primo Mazzolari this June, Pope Francis will pay homage to two historic Italians who aimed to change their society for the better.Both Fr. Milani and Fr. Mazzolari combined their social advocacy with a profound devotion and obedience to the Church.Both priests have been wrongly portrayed as “anti-clerical” priests. Their writings have often been misquoted in order to make them appear to dissent from the Church. However, they always obeyed any restriction the Church placed upon them, and they never preached outside of the Catholic Church.Fr. Mazzolari believed that a parish priest was called to be a reference point for the community, and also called to work for the re-evangelization of Christianity. He clearly describes this approach in his book “La Bella Avventura,” or “The Beautiful Journey.”Fr. Milani had a similar approach, which he applie...
