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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When an influential Jesuit-run journalcriticized U.S. politics in mid-July, it was not the first time it had causedcontroversy in the United States. Stirring up controversy is nothing new for La CiviltaCattolica, which sees defending the faith as part of its mission.Over the years, it has written articles calling professionalboxing "attempted murder"; labeling distracted or impaired driving asin that should be confessed; praising the powers of Harry Potter in gettingkids to read; recommending anger management training for priests and religious;advocating Western governments regulate mosque construction; and condemningstates from profiting from cigarette sales.It also made some fur fly when it criticized animal rightsmovements that ignore the unique dignity and superiority of human beings overanimals. It noted the hypocrisy of insisting on basic rights to life foranimals but not for the disabled, sick or young children. The e...
LAND O'LAKES, Fla. (AP) -- Even though a Florida sinkhole hasn't grown in several days, officials said that the debris-strewn site is still considered dangerous and that residents of five homes remained evacuated Tuesday due to the dangers....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A dispute over metal detectors is escalating into a new showdown between Israel and the Muslim world over a Jerusalem shrine that has triggered major Israeli-Palestinian confrontations in the past....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Callista Gingrich, Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to the Vatican, told skeptical Democrats on Tuesday that the president wants the United States to be an environmental leader even after pulling the country out of the landmark accord aimed at combatting global warming....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- An Australian woman who called 911 to report what she believed to be an active sexual assault was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer in a case that has left many relatives and neighbors searching for answers....
MIAMI (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy from a drug-ridden Miami neighborhood apparently died of a fentanyl overdose last month, becoming one of Florida's littlest victims of the opioid crisis, authorities said Tuesday. But how he came in contact with the powerful drug is unclear....
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. (AP) -- The search for a man who was swept away in a flash flood that killed nine others at a swimming hole in central Arizona intensified Tuesday as crews with dogs and a drone combed through huge clumps of muddy tree branches and other debris along a 2-mile stream bed....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite opposition from Republican moderates and conservatives, House leaders are pressing ahead with a budget plan whose success is critical to the party's hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities - a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A representative of the Russian developer who partnered with President Donald Trump to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow was the eighth person at a Trump Tower meeting arranged by Donald Trump Jr. during the campaign, a lawyer for the developer said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared Tuesday it's time to "let Obamacare fail" after the latest GOP health care plan crashed and burned in the Senate, a stunning failure for the president, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a party that has vowed for years to abolish the law....
