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By AUGUSTA,Ga. (CNS) -- Saying "justice needs to be tamed by mercy," Bishop Felipe J. Estevezof St. Augustine, Florida, and two brother bishops called Jan. 31 for the stateof Georgia to drop the death penalty in the case of accused priest killerSteven J. Murray."Wehave great respect for the legal system and we believe Murray deservespunishment for the brutal murder, but the sentence of death only perpetuates thecycle of violence," Bishop Estevez said at a news conference. "It isunnecessary and denies the dignity of all persons."BishopEstevez, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta and Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayerof Savannah, along with priests, deacons and other supporters, gathered outsidethe Richmond County Courthouse in Augusta to issue their appeal.Murray,29, has admitted in interviews to killing Father Rene Robert, 71, a priest ofthe Diocese of St. Augustine, who befriended him as part of his prisonministry. He is charged with first-degree murder, which carries a sentence oflif...
NEW YORK (AP) -- On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to appoint a crusading anti-abortion Supreme Court justice who'd work to overturn the Roe v. Wade opinion that legalized it....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Army's review of a proposal to finish the Dakota Access pipeline could be the beginning of the end for opponents who have been fighting the project for nearly a year....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A jury on Wednesday convicted a Minnesota man of assault for opening fire and wounding five men demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police officers....
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) -- Inmates at a Delaware prison took five corrections department workers hostage Wednesday, a move the inmates told a local newspaper was due to concerns about their treatment and the leadership of the United States....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A parole panel on Wednesday recommended the release of a former follower of cult leader Charles Manson after California governors blocked four previous parole recommendations....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- People are beginning to pay more attention to the man behind the curtain....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump urged the Senate's Republican leader on Wednesday to resort to the "nuclear option" of scrapping longstanding chamber rules if needed to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, an aggressive opening to what's shaping up as a ferocious clash over the future of the high court....
Washington D.C., Feb 1, 2017 / 10:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pro-life leaders and religious freedom advocates hailed President Trump’s choice of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy on Tuesday.Gorsuch “has an excellent record on religious freedom,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, told CNA.“He has decided many cases that address that issue, and he’s shown that he understands how to read the law,” she added, citing as an example the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was at the heart of the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision and the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor.Professor Michael Moreland, a visiting law professor at the University of Notre Dame, called the judge “a superb nominee to the Supreme Court” and added that “he is a brilliant and careful jurist, and he has an especially strong record in cases involving religious freedom.”Presiden...
Cologne, Germany, Feb 1, 2017 / 11:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The German bishops have published their own guidelines on Amoris laetitia allowing, in certain cases, for divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Communion.The decision by the German bishops' conference comes on the heels of a similar announcement made by the bishops of Malta.While the German bishops emphasized that access to the sacraments is a question of each individual case, the new guidelines do allow the “possibility of receiving the sacraments in these situations.”Titled “The joy of Love, which is lived in Families, is also the Joy of the Church,” the guidelines issed by the permanent council of the German bishops' conference were released Feb. 1 and bear the subtitle “An invitation to a Renewed Marriage and Family Pastoral Care in Light of Amoris laetitia.”The German bishops' conference's permanent council meets five or six times a year, and “each [German]...
