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Vatican City, Mar 6, 2017 / 05:05 pm (CNA).- To mark International Women's Day, the Vatican invited women from across the globe to discuss not only their work as peacemakers in a conflict-filled world, but their contributions to the Church as well.“Women understand, intuitively and by experience, that other people need their attention,” Dr. Scilla Elworthy, co-founder of the organization “Rising Women, Rising World,” told CNA March 6.This intuition is seen concretely in how women interact with their children, their families and the communities they are a part of, she said. This ability “is what makes them such incredible peacemakers and peacebuilders: that ability to step into the shoes of the other in compassion, and to actually listen.”“You'll notice that some women have this lovely presence that makes them very alive and very engaged and engaging,” which isn't just the result of their intuition, but also of the five char...
By Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Within hours of President Donald Trump's new executive order March6 banning refugees from six majority-Muslim nations, Catholic and otherreligious groups joined secular leaders in questioning the wisdom of such amove, with others vowing to oppose it outright.Bill O'Keefe,vice president for advocacy and government relations at Catholic ReliefServices, said in a statement, "As the world's most blessed nation, we shouldbe doing more to provide assistance overseas and resettle the most vulnerable,not less. It is wrong, during this time of great need, to cut humanitarian assistanceand reduce resettlement."O'Keefeadded, "Refugees are fleeing the same terrorism that we seek to protectourselves from. By welcoming them, we show the world that we are an open,tolerant nation which seeks to protect the vulnerable. That has always beenAmerica's greatest strength.""At theheart of the work of Catholic Charities is the Gospel mandate to welcome thestranger and ca...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- North Korea's latest volley of missile tests put new pressure on a preoccupied Trump administration Monday to identify how it will counter leader Kim Jong Un's weapons development....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is leaving the issue of transgender rights in schools to lower courts for now after backing out of a high-profile case Monday of a Virginia high school student who sued to be able to use the boys' bathroom....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's revised travel ban eases some of the legal questions surrounding the previous order, but critics said it does not answer all of them, including accusations that the measure is a thinly veiled attempt to discriminate against Muslims....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Homeland Security Department is considering separating children from parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally, Secretary John Kelly said Monday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If Donald Trump wants to know whether he was the subject of surveillance by the U.S. government, he may be uniquely positioned to get an answer....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Monday released their long-awaited plan for unraveling former President Barack Obama's health care law, a package that would scale back the government's role in health care and likely leave more Americans uninsured....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Without fanfare, President Donald Trump signed a scaled-back version of his controversial ban on many foreign travelers Monday, hoping to avoid a new round of lawsuits and outrage while fulfilling a central campaign promise. His order still bars new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries and temporarily shuts down America's refugee program....
Washington D.C., Mar 6, 2017 / 10:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Supreme Court will not hear the case of a transgender student’s demand to access public school single-sex bathrooms, instead sending it back to the lower courts for reconsideration.Announced Monday, the decision to send the case back to a lower court was based on the Trump administration’s recent announcement that it was withdrawing the Obama-era guidance which had stated that students should have access to the facilities of their self-perceived gender identification.“The first duty of school districts is to protect the bodily privacy rights of all of the students who attend their schools and to respect the rights of parents who understandably don’t want their children exposed in intimate changing areas like locker rooms and showers,” Kerri Kupec, legal counsel for the group Alliance Defending Freedom, stated in response to the Court’s decision.The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals h...
