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Washington D.C., Oct 3, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Amidst the current environment of “political polarization,” one archbishop exhorted public officials on Sunday not to be discouraged, but to pray together and ask for “an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.”“At this critical moment in our nation’s history, at this time when America seems to be almost paralyzed by a political polarization that impedes our ability to address effectively a whole host of pressing needs, we gather not just to pray for our country and its leaders in general, but to plead in a particular way for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on those who are involved in the administration of justice,” Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis said on Sunday.Archbishop Hebda preached the homily at the Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, D.C. The Mass has been held annually for Supreme Court justices, judges, and other public officials since 1952, and ...
Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct 3, 2016 / 04:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The tiny community of the Catholic Church in Georgia was barely surviving just decades ago.Now it has an opportunity to regenerate itself following Pope Francis' model of the “Church of consolation,” the local Catholic bishop has said. “During his Mass, Pope Francis did not speak of a strong and powerful Church, but rather of a Church able to give consolation. And I thought: this is the Church I like, a Church that has openings and does not get used to things,” Bishop Giuseppe Pasotto explained. Bishop Pasotto is an Italian religious of the Stigmatine congregation. He moved to Georgia in 1993, was appointed apostolic administrator of the Caucasus region in 1996. “The path of our Christian community was beautiful and exciting. We started from zero,” he told CNA. “Back in 1993, there were Christian communities, but we had to teach them Mass again, as they were o...
Montpelier, Vt., Oct 3, 2016 / 05:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A medical ethics group and a Christian doctors’ group have challenged Vermont regulators who say that doctors must tell patients about assisted suicide or refer them to someone who will.“The government shouldn’t be telling health care professionals that they must violate their medical ethics in order to practice medicine,” said Steven H. Aden, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom. “Because the state has no authority to order them to act contrary to that sincere and time-honored conviction, we are asking the court to ensure that no state agency is able to do that while this lawsuit moves forward.”Aden’s organization, a religious liberty group, has filed a lawsuit against officials in the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the Office of Professional Regulation.The lawsuit’s plaintiffs, the Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare and the Christian Medical and Dental Ass...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Shawn Thew, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The United States, with its mixed record on the death penalty, isabout to take a closer look at the issue this fall with two cases before theSupreme Court and three referendums on state ballots in the November election.Inthe two death penalty cases before the court, both from Texas, one examinesinformation given to jurors while the other questions whether the state properlymeasured intellectual capability of the accused."TheSupreme Court cases this fall are addressing the brokenness of the judicialsystem," said Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic MobilizingNetwork to End the Death Penalty.Shesaid these cases "address the most troubling aspect of the death penalty,which is disproportionately used on vulnerable populations."Buckv. Stephens will be argued before the court Oct. 5, two days into its new term.It reviews the 1995 sentencing of Duane Buck, who was given the death penalty for the1995 murders...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- More than five months after Prince's fatal drug overdose, investigators have narrowed their focus to two main questions: whether doctors illegally prescribed opioids meant for the pop star and whether the fentanyl that killed him came from a black-market source, a law enforcement official said....
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Heavy rains from the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew drenched Haiti and Jamaica on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the sprawling Category 4 storm steamed toward the two Caribbean countries....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- As peace talks in Colombia advanced over the past year, 7,000 rebel fighters began slowly emerging from their jungle hideouts hoping for, if not a hero's welcome, at least an outstretched hand from fellow Colombians tired of a half century of bloody combat....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded Monday that two officers face murder charges after dash-cam video revealed they talked inside their police cruiser about running him down. He dodged the cruiser twice and was shot 14 times less than a minute later by the same two officers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Already testy, relations between the United States and Russia plummeted Monday as Washington suspended diplomatic contacts with Moscow over failed efforts to end the war in Syria and President Vladimir Putin put on hold a deal with the U.S. on disposing weapons-grade plutonium....
