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Washington D.C., Feb 24, 2017 / 04:25 pm (CNA).- The Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in the case of a Mexican teen shot dead by a border patrol agent. But when it comes to legal standing in the case, the situation is far from clear.“This is a difficult case, as its facts are very compelling for the plaintiffs, but the law is less so,” said Mary G. Leary, professor of law at The Catholic University of America.Leary spoke with CNA about the case Hernandez v. Mesa currently before the Supreme Court. At the U.S.-Mexico border in 2010, three Mexican boys played a game of “chicken” by seeing who would run the closest to the border. Fifteen-year-old Sergio Hernandez crossed the border and was noticed by border patrol agent Jesus Mesa. As Hernandez ran back into a culvert between the walls on either side of the border, the agent shot him dead.Mexico requested that Mesa be extradited for the killing, but the U.S. refused. Hernandez’s family su...
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb 24, 2017 / 04:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles Chaput will present his latest book in New York City and Washington, D.C. in the near future, discussing the changed situation for Catholicism in America.“As Christians, we're offering a salvific message in a therapeutic culture. It's a tough sale,” the archbishop told CNA. He suggested that new understandings of religion and civic life are very different from previous generations.“Jesus changed the world with 12 very flawed men,” Archbishop Chaput said. “We have plenty of good men and women, and more than enough resources, to do the same. But not if we’re too self-absorbed and too eager to fit into the world around us to suffer for our faith. We’re not short of vocations. We’re short of clear thinking and zeal.”His newest book, “Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World,”...
By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairmenof two U.S. bishops' committees Feb. 24 praised President Donald Trump's repealof the Obama administration's directive on transgender access to bathrooms.The guidance, issued last May bythe U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education, "indicatedthat public pre-K through 12 schools, as well as all colleges and universities,should treat 'a student's gender identity as the student's sex,'" said the bishops'joint statement.The document "sought to impose aone-size-fits-all approach to dealing with sensitive issues involvingindividual students," said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia,chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity,Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio,chairman of the USCCB Committee on Catholic Education."Such issues are best handledwith care and compassion at the local level, respecting the privacy and safetyconcerns of all students," they s...
Oscar front-runner "La La Land" opens with a bang, or should we say a burst - of leaps and pirouettes, not to mention bicycles sashaying along the roofs of automobiles. It's not easy to stage a successful dance scene for the cameras - especially on a highway interchange - but when such a scene works, it can be memorable....
News organizations including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and Politico were blocked from joining an informal, on-the-record White House press briefing Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats have invited immigrants and foreigners to President Donald Trump's first address to Congress in an effort to put a face on those who could be hurt by the Republican's policies....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media reports that Trump campaign advisers had been frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Analysts at the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump's travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States....
Vatican City, Feb 24, 2017 / 11:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Vatican seminar on water held this week highlighted the complex challenges faced around the world in making the basic human right to water a reality for all people.Reliable access to safe and clean water for everyone is an issue close to the heart of the Church, Cardinal Peter Turkson told CNA Feb. 23, because it has to do with the fundamental dignity possessed by every human person.Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Cardinal Turkson wasn’t a formal participant himself, but sat in on a few of the sessions. He said that “on the level of the Church” the point of departure for the issue of water access is “certainly dignity.”“Because we affirm the dignity of people, we also affirm anything that is needed to make this dignity realized,” he said.Hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Argentine organization Catedra del dialogo y la cultura encue...
Washington D.C., Feb 24, 2017 / 12:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Trump administration’s new border and immigration enforcement rules needlessly endanger the vulnerable, militarize the border and will cause many other problems, the U.S. bishops warned this week.“They greatly expand the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border,” said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, who wrote the bishops’ Feb. 23 response.On Feb. 20, the Department of Homeland Security issued two memoranda to implement President Donald Trump’s executive orders regarding immigration enforcement on the border and in the U.S. interior.“Taken together, these memoranda constitute the establishment of a large-scale enforcement system that targets virtually all undocumented migrants as ‘priorities’ for deportation, thus prioritizing no one,” Bishop Vasquez said.Important protections for the vulnerable, including unacc...
