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Sacramento, Calif., Apr 4, 2017 / 09:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A proposed California law has targeted faith-based employers’ codes of conduct in the name of reproductive health, the California Catholic Conference has said.“The bill impacts all employers, but seems to attack and diminish the conscience and religious liberty rights of faith-based organizations,” Sandra Palacios, associate director for governmental relations at the California Catholic Conference, told CNA April 3.“The bill targets and seeks to eliminate the ability of religious employers to enforce faith-based code of conduct standards,” she said. “As one of the most family-friendly religious employers in our state and across the nation, we welcome an opportunity for further dialogue on the bill with the author and her staff.”Assembly Bill 569 would bar requiring an employee to sign a waiver or other document that “purports to deny any employee the right to make his or her ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Continuing initiatives aimed at a reconciliationwith the Priestly Societyof St. Pius X, Pope Francis hasmade it possible for bishops to ensure the validity of marriages celebrated inthe traditionalist communities.A letterpublished by the Vatican April 4 said the pope will allow Catholic bishops toappoint priests to assist at SSPX marriages and formally receive the consent ofthe couples. The nuptial Mass then would be celebrated by the SSPX priest.Inaddition, Pope Francis gave bishops the option of granting an SSPX priest thenecessary faculties to officiate validly over the marriage rite "if thereare no priests in the diocese" available to do so. Theprovisions are meant to ensure the validity of the sacrament and "allayany concerns on the part of the faithful," said the letterpublished by the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," which is responsible forthe Vatican's ongoing talks with the Society of St. Pius X.The c...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Catholic approach to developmentaims at helping people achieve both physical and spiritual well-being andpromotes both individual responsibility and community ties, Pope Francis said.A development that is "fully human" recognizesthat being a person means being in relationship; it affirms "inclusion andnot exclusion," upholds the dignity of the person against any form ofexploitation, and struggles for freedom, the pope said April 4 at a Vaticanconference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI's encyclical onintegral human development, "Populorum Progressio."Holistic or integral development, Pope Francis said,involves "integrating" all people into one human family, integratingindividuals into communities, integrating the individual and communaldimensions of life and integrating body and soul."The duty of solidarity obliges us to seek proper waysof sharing so that there is no longer that dram...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press named its head of U.S. news to the new position of managing editor on Tuesday, appointing Brian Carovillano to take the No. 2 position in the newsroom of the global news cooperative....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force....
DALLAS (AP) -- Tony Romo is retiring rather than trying to chase a Super Bowl with another team after losing his starting job with the Dallas Cowboys, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday....
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- The NCAA will consider North Carolina as a host for championship events again after the state rolled back a law that limited protections for LGBT people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans entertained a fresh White House offer to revise the party's failed health care bill Tuesday as the GOP tried to resuscitate the measure that crashed spectacularly less than two weeks ago. But the proposal was getting mixed reviews from both conservative and moderate lawmakers, raising doubts about the rescue mission....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- U.S.-based pro-democracy group Freedom House said Tuesday that a "spectacular breakdown of democracy" has been taking place in Poland and Hungary, two countries that stood as models of democratic change after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican and Democratic senators exchanged bitter accusations Tuesday as they headed toward an explosive confrontation over President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee that could change the Senate, and the court, for generations....
