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By IRVING, Texas (CNS) -- The BoyScouts of America's new policy to accept members based on their gender identitywill have no impact on Scouting units sponsored by the Catholic Church, said theNational Catholic Committee on Scouting.The Boy Scouts announced Jan. 30that effective immediately, the Texas-based organization will determine membershipeligibility for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts on a youth's gender identity asindicated on the membership application. Previously, the policy basedeligibility on the gender indicated on a youth's birth certificate.The change in policy "has noimpact on the operation and program delivery of Scouting program(s) in Catholic-charteredunits," said a Feb. 4 statement issued by the Catholic Scouting committee."Scouting serves the CatholicChurch through the charter concept, which is similar to a franchise," it said. "Theunits chartered to a Catholic institution are owned by that organization. TheBSA has stipulated that religious partners will continue to ha...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Call it lifestyles of the ultra-rich: A new mega mansion up for sale in Los Angeles' exclusive Bel Air neighborhood comes with just about everything you could dream of....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Melania Trump has said little about what she intends to do with her prominent position. But in new court documents, her lawyers say that the "multi-year term" during which she "is one of the most photographed women in the world" could mean millions of dollars for her personal brand....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday he has "serious, serious concerns" about President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee after their meeting, complaining that the federal judge "avoided answers like the plague."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch gave up a $1 million a year paycheck when he left his private law practice a decade ago for less financially rewarding work as a government lawyer and then a judge....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A lawyer calls it the "third-shift terror squad": a band of white officers who patrol the South Side of Providence at night and, residents say, strike fear into blacks and Latinos by harassing and in some cases beating them....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A new Israeli law legalizing dozens of unlawfully built West Bank settlement outposts came under heavy criticism on Tuesday from some of Israel's closest allies, as local rights groups prepared to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the measure....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- President Donald Trump's travel ban faced its biggest legal test yet Tuesday as a panel of federal judges prepared to hear arguments from the administration and its opponents about two fundamentally divergent views of the executive branch and the court system....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Tuesday confirmed school choice advocate Betsy DeVos as Education secretary by the narrowest of margins, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie in a historic vote....
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay was re-elected on Monday to head of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the forum of Latin rite bishops in India, for another term of two years.The re-election of Cardinal Gracias was the unanimous decision of more than 130 bishops attending the 29th plenary of the Latin rite bishops in Bhopal, said a press note.However, other top officers, vice president Archbishop Philipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and secretary general Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal of Calicut were replaced. Archbishop George Antonysamy of Madras - Mylapore is new vice president and Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto of Delhi is new secretary general.Cardinal Gracias is also the president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences as well as the Archbishop of Bombay.Archbishop Antonysamy has served in the Vatican embassies in Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone and was in charge of d’Affaires of the Vatican Embassy in Jordan. In 2012 he was appointed the sixth a...
