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Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Jul 14, 2017 / 04:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of Spain and France have published a new letter emphasizing the importance of hospitality for people who host pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, offering guidelines for how they can welcome and care for the spiritual needs of those making the long trek.In the letter the bishops noted that hospitality is a tradition that has been practiced in all ages and civilizations, and “is not to question or to prosecute, but only to welcome, to give food and drink, a bed and money for the trip, words of esteem and direction.”It is the same kindness that Abraham showed to the strangers who came to his door in Mambre, and is “the mercy that the Samaritan showed to the wounded man, carrying him to an inn and leaving money so that he could be healed and recovered during the necessary time,” they said.Published July 12, the letter is titled “Welcome and Hospitality on the Camino,&rdquo...
New York City, N.Y., Jul 14, 2017 / 05:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal court ruled Friday that the Archdiocese of New York had the right not to hire a diocesan school principal in a First Amendment religious freedom decision.“The court saw right through this blatantly anti-Catholic lawsuit, agreeing with the Supreme Court that the church, not the state, should pick religious leaders,” Eric Rassbach, deputy general counsel at Becket, which represented the archdiocese in court, stated July 14 in reaction to the decision.The case before the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals involved St. Anthony’s school in Nanuet, N.Y., 35 miles north of New York City.The school had decided in 2011 not to renew the contract of its then-principal Joanne Fratello because of her alleged “insubordination” shown to the pastor of St. Anthony’s parish.Fratello later alleged that the contract decision was a case of sex-based discrimination, and she filed a lawsuit again...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Lawrence Looi, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The House Appropriations Committee votedJuly 13 in favor of an amendment to repeal the District of Columbia's assistedsuicide law.The daybefore the vote, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan sent a letter to members ofthe committee urging them to "nullify the D.C. City Council'sdeceptively named 'Death with Dignity Act' that legalizes the dangerous andunethical practice of doctor-assisted suicide."Theamendment to the fiscal year 2018 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill looks to repeal the assisted suicide law, which went into effect this past February. It wasintroduced by Rep. Andy Harris, R-Maryland, who told the committee there is"nothing dignified about suicide" in his opinion.Harris alsocalled the act "bad policy" and said that "physicians wereplaying God" by prescribing lethal medications to terminally ill patientswho want to end their lives.Thelegislation permits physicians in th...
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A marijuana dealer gave police a grisly account of killing four men on his family's farm, saying he crushed one of them with a backhoe after shooting him and tried to set three of the bodies on fire in a metal bin with the help of his cousin, according to court papers filed Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A court decision on President Donald Trump's travel ban has reopened a window for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the United States, and the government is looking to quickly close it....
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Health care legislation is hanging by a thread in the Senate, and no one is under more pressure than Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada....
MOSCOW (AP) -- A billionaire real estate mogul, his pop singer son and a music promoter. A property lawyer, Russia's prosecutor general and a Russian-American lobbyist....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A prominent Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer attended a meeting with President Donald Trump's son, son-in-law and campaign chairman last year, the lobbyist said Friday, adding a new wrinkle to the Trump team's evolving explanations about the June 2016 session....
Turin, Italy, Jul 14, 2017 / 11:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While St. John Bosco is a beloved saint among Catholics, many do not know that his mother, Margaret Bosco, was declared Venerable in 2006 and has an advancing cause towards beatification.Margaret Occhiena was born in a small town in Italy in 1788 to a large family of faithful Christians. At the age of 24, Margaret married a young widower and father, Francis Bosco, who was a farmer and had a son named Anthony.The couple would go on to have two more sons before Francis died of pneumonia in 1817. Left with three children, Margaret devoted her life to her family and fostered the teachings of Catholicism within her children over the coming years. She also cared for her mother-in-law.Although Margaret was illiterate, she was known for her wisdom in the Catholic faith and did her best to instill virtue and knowledge within her children. When her son John told her that he wanted to be a Catholic priest and work with youth, she encourag...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mark Clatterbuck, courBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- As chapels go, the simple structure on property owned by the Adorers of the Blood of Christcongregation in Columbia,Pennsylvania, is not much.It'smore of an arbor, really: four posts and several cross boards built on propertythe sisters own that includes a leased cornfield. Several pewlike benches arearranged around it.Still, saidthe sisters, it stands as a symbol of resistance by people of faith to aplanned natural gas pipeline called Atlantic Sunrise that developers want to build through miles offarmland and small towns of picturesque Lancaster County.The pipeline'spath takes it through a strip of land the congregation owns in the Harrisburg Diocese that includesfarmland and the sisters contend that construction poses a danger to God'screation. They have declined repeated offers of compensation from Transco, the project'sdeveloper, to allow an easement for it to be built."Thisis something that we felt as ...
