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St. Louis, Mo., Apr 17, 2017 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Missouri has announced that it will start allowing religious groups to be eligible for certain state grants, although the decision may not affect a religious freedom case before the U.S. Supreme Court this week.“We commend Governor Greitens for reversing a policy of discrimination against religious groups applying for neutral and widely-available grants to do important work for the state of Missouri,” said Ashley McGuire, senior fellow with The Catholic Association, on Friday.She responded to an announcement from the state’s new governor, Eric Greitens, that religious groups will now be eligible for grants from the state’s department of natural resources.It is unclear whether the decision will affect the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer, which is scheduled for oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case centers around a playground owned by a Missouri church and used b...
Salina, Kan., Apr 17, 2017 / 04:10 pm (The Register).- In 2015, Shannon found herself swimming in debt from a title loan. She faithfully made the $200 monthly payments. Unfortunately, the entire $200 went to interest.“I kept paying the interest on it and wasn’t getting anywhere,” she said.None of it went to pay down the original $900 loan.“The first time I took a loan out, I was behind on rent,” Shannon said. “Then something else came up and it got out of control. I could never see getting myself out of the hole. I thought the loan would be a burden that would be over me forever.”The Kansas Loan Pool Project, which began in 2013, has assisted 127 people get out of predatory debt. The program is a collaboration with Sunflower Bank in which the predatory debt is refinanced into a traditional loan. In all, more than $80,000 worth of debt has been refinanced through the program.Shannon came to Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas because she he...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhillyBy Gina ChristianNORRISTOWN, Pa. (CNS) -- For immigrantsin the country without legal permission, a routine doctor's visit can be anoccasion for panic. Without papers, immigrants fear deportation when they enterthe waiting room.Unwilling to take such a risk,they avoid seeking medical attention even in life-threatening cases.Language barriers that make itdifficult to describe their ailments or to understand medical advice, lack oftransportation to health care facilities and working long hours at jobs thatdon't provide paid time off all add up to many immigrants missing out on vitalhealth care.St. Patrick Parish in Norristownis working to change this situation with help from local clinicians, volunteers-- and Our Lady of Guadalupe.After the noon Mass on the firstSunday of each month, the parish hosts a walk-in health fair for arearesidents, many of whom are Mexican immigrants, in the church's basement hall.Participants receive freescreenings f...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Promise," the grandest big-screen portrayal ever made about the mass killings of Armenians during World War I, has been rated by more than 111,300 people on IMDb - a remarkable total considering it doesn't open in theaters until Friday and has thus far been screened only a handful of times publicly....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has finally fulfilled his long-held ambition to expand his powers after Sunday's referendum handed him the reins of his country's governance. But success did not come without a cost....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Court documents unsealed Monday in the investigation into Prince's death suggest a doctor and a close friend helped him improperly obtain prescription opioid painkillers, but they shed no new light on how the superstar got the fentanyl that killed him....
VARNER, Ark. (AP) -- State and federal courts lifted the two primary obstacles Arkansas faced Monday in its plan to execute eight inmates before the end of April, but the executions of the first two inmates scheduled to die remained in limbo....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- In a rambling video, Steve Stephens said, "I snapped, I just snapped." But as the manhunt dragged on Monday for the man accused of posting Facebook footage of himself killing a retiree, police were unable to explain what set him off....
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) -- The White House displayed a tough and unyielding approach to North Korea and its nuclear ambitions Monday, with President Donald Trump warning that Kim Jong Un has "gotta behave" and Vice President Mike Pence sternly advising Kim not to test America's resolve and military power....
By Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Agrass-roots effort calling on Catholic churches around the world to celebrate aspecial Mass on the May 8 birthday of the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen couldsee its goal of 1,000 Masses soon reached.As of April 13, close to900 churches had pledged to celebrate a Mass in memory of the prelate, who wasan Emmy-winning televangelist and who spread the Gospel message far and wide ashead of the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966.Lo Anne Mayer, a NewJersey Catholic, is one of those who launched the Mass effort in January. Shealso knew and greatly admired Archbishop Sheen, who is a candidate forsainthood.Mayer told Catholic NewsService the idea for the Masses is to not only celebrate the archbishop'slife, ministry and legacy but also to "storm heaven" with prayers forhis canonization.She felt he was a saintthe first time she met him. When he spent time with her and her husband andtheir six children, she observed his gentle manner with the childre...
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