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IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrew Kelly, ReutersBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairmenof three U.S. bishops' committees Jan. 31 expressed solidarity with the Muslimcommunity and expressed deep concern over religious freedom issues they said PresidentDonald Trump's refugee ban raises.Trump's executive memorandum ofJan. 27 "has generated fear and untold anxiety among refugees, immigrants andothers throughout the faith community in the United States," said the committeechairmen in a joint statement. "In response ' we join with other faith leadersto stand in solidarity again with those affected by this order, especially ourMuslim sisters and brothers.""We also express our firmresolution that the order's stated preference for 'religious minorities' shouldbe applied to protect not only Christians where they are a minority, but allreligious minorities who suffer persecution, which includes Yezidis, ShiaMuslims in majority Sunni areas, and vice versa," said the statement from byBishop Mitchell T. Rozans...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that has been empty since the death of Justice Antonin Scalialast February.Gorsuch is a man the countryneeds, Trump said in announcing his nominee the evening of Jan. 31. He added that his pick for the high court already has had bipartisan support. When Trump announced his choice at the White House, in the audience was Maureen McCarthy Scalia, the widow of the late justice. One of thecouple's children also was present: Father Paul Scalia, a priest of the Dioceseof Arlington, Virginia.In his remarks, Gorsuch said he was thankful forfriends, family and faith giving him balance. He also said he was honored andhumbled to be chosen as a nominee to the nation's highest court. He described Scalia as"lion of the law" and said he misses him. Gorsuch,judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, is 49, making him the youngestSupreme Cou...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, fired by President Donald Trump, has told others she refused to enforce his executive order on refugees because she felt it was intended to disadvantage Muslims, according to a person familiar with her thinking....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Salespeople at Pyongyang's premier car dealership wait patiently beside racks of glossy brochures in a showroom filled with that unmistakable new car smell from a couple dozen Whistle sedans and Cuckoo SUVs - all bearing the distinctive, double-pigeon logo of Pyonghwa Motors, North Korea's only passenger car company....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers was ordered to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline to proceed under a disputed Missouri River crossing, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said on Tuesday, the latest twist in a months-long legal battle over the $3.8 billion project....
DENVER (AP) -- Neil Gorsuch, named Tuesday as President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has a solidly conservative pedigree that has earned him comparison to the combative justice he would replace, Antonin Scalia....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer's flair, to the Supreme Court Tuesday night, setting up a fierce fight with Democrats over a jurist who could shape America's legal landscape for decades to come....
Caracas, Venezuela, Jan 31, 2017 / 02:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When asked by a reporter about the threat of civil war in his country, Archbishop Ubaldo Santana of Maracaibo responded starkly: “there is already a bloodbath of considerable proportions in Venezuela.”“We're talking about 30,000 people murdered a year, and if we don't manage to find peaceful ways to understand each other, that number can increase,” he said in a recent interview.Archbishop Santana, the former head of the Venezuelan bishops' conference, made his remarks to the Alpha and Omega news weekly during a visit to Spain, in which he discussed various issues related to the grave crisis affecting Venezuela.In the wake of Nicolas Maduro succeeding former socialist president Hugo Chavez after the latter died from cancer in 2013, the country has been marred by violence and social upheaval.Poor economic policies, including strict price controls, coupled with high inflation rates, have r...
Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan 31, 2017 / 04:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Parishioners were distressed after a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn posted a meme on Facebook that encouraged Trump opponents to commit suicide.“Show your hate for Trump. Do it for social justice. #JumpAgainstTrump,” the meme said. It included a cartoon of a man in mid-jump off a skyscraper.Fr. Philip J. Pizzo, pastor of St. Benedict Joseph Labre Parish, shared the meme on his personal Facebook page Jan. 29.Parishioners told the New York Post that Fr. Pizzo often shares controversial political memes.The meme was shared just one day after President Trump announced an executive order that suspended refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Fr. Pizzo’s parish website often double posts in English and Spanish in an effort to reach migrant families.Some said they were considering switching parishes after the recent insensitive post.“Suicide is not funny, plain and sim...
Vatican City, Jan 31, 2017 / 04:28 pm (CNA).- In the first days of U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark said he has seen encouragement on pro-life matters, but cause for concern when it comes to refugees.“I think the fact that the vice president and other White House officials addressed the March for Life last week was very encouraging, and I think it’s a good boost,” the cardinal told CNA in a sit-down interview Jan. 31.Noting that the massive pro-life march is often ignored by the media, he said “this was I think a great gift to the people, the attention that the administration gave.”However, he also voiced concern over U.S. president Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees, and how it will affect those suffering in various parts of the world. He said that in opposing the policy, the U.S. bishops have the support of Pope Francis.Currently in Rome to take possession of his titular church Santa Mar...
