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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House's explanation of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey has been a moving target....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Contradicting previous White House explanations, President Donald Trump declared Thursday he had planned to fire FBI Director James Comey all along, regardless of whether top Justice Department officials recommended the stunning step. His assertions came as Comey's temporary replacement joined in, contradicting other administration statements on the snowballing controversy....
Austin, Texas, May 11, 2017 / 12:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic groups have welcomed the Texas House of Representatives’ passage Wednesday of a bill that would provide conscience protections for groups and individuals involved in the foster care system.“When this becomes law, Catholic Charities will be able to bring our expertise and resources to the aid of some of our most desperate and needy children,” said Sara Ramirez, CEO for Catholic Charities of Central Texas.“We are willing to return to the field and work side-by-side with all people of good will so that no child is further traumatized by an inadequate foster care system,” she said in a statement from the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops.The 93-49 vote on May 10, largely along party lines, sends the bill to the Senate, where a similar version has been stalled in committee, the Austin American-Statesman reports.The bill would allow organizations and individuals in Texas’ foster care s...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Without waiting for somewell-researched, detailed plan with action items and measurable goals, Catholicsin Quebec must go out and share the Gospel, Pope Francis told the bishops ofthe province.Meeting the 29 bishops of Quebec May 11, Pope Francis said,"You've got to go, and it's going to be messy," according to ArchbishopPaul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, former president of the Canadian Conference ofCatholic Bishops.The two-hour meeting was the second the Quebec bishops hadwith Pope Francis during their "ad limina" visit to Rome to pray atthe tombs of the apostles and to discuss the situation of their dioceses withthe pope and Vatican officials.The Quebec bishops also had met with the pope for threehours May 5 at an evening meeting that included the prefects or secretaries ofthe Vatican offices for bishops, clergy, religious, laity and family, Catholiceducation and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Pop...
In campus clashes from California to Vermont, many defenders of the First Amendment say they see signs that free speech, once a bedrock value in academia, is losing ground as a priority at U.S. colleges....
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- The largest cargo ship ever to visit ports on the U.S. East Coast is so long the Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument could fit end-to-end along its deck and still leave room for Big Ben....
Early moves by insurers suggest that another round of price hikes and limited choices will greet insurance shoppers around the country when they start searching for next year's coverage on the public markets established by the Affordable Care Act....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A burgeoning Indianapolis suburb has paid the wife of an influential congressman $580,000 since 2015 for legal consulting she largely does from the Washington area, an unusually large sum even in a state rife with highly paid government contractors, according to a review by The Associated Press....
School officials never told the mother of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself that another student had thrown him against the wall two days earlier and knocked him unconscious in an attack recorded by a surveillance video, attorneys for the boy's mother said Thursday....
