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IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- When the vice president has to cast a vote to break a tie in theSenate on whether to debate U.S. health care policy, let alone revise it -- asMike Pence did July 25 -- it is obvious that passing legislation to repeal,and/or replace, and/or reform the Affordable Care Act is going to be a heavylift in Congress.Democrats,who boasted of a veto-proof majority to avoid a Senate Republican filibuster,got the ACA passed in 2010. Now, they're in the minority in both the Senate andthe House.Yetin the rush to reject Obamacare, as the ACA is popularly known, there lacksunanimity among Republicans in each chamber to make changes.Thefirst House effort to pass the American Health Care Act never got to a votebefore it was withdrawn. A second version passed 219-215 despite GOPdefections.TheSenate's Better Care Reconciliation Act never came to a vote, either, when enoughRepublican senators gave it a thumbs-down for leaders to recognize its...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday that electronics giant Foxconn will build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that's expected to initially create 3,000 jobs, the largest economic development project in state history....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban Wednesday on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military, catching the Pentagon flat-footed and unable to explain what it called Trump's "guidance." His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement, drew bipartisan denunciations and threw currently serving transgender soldiers into limbo....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After seven years of emphatic campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn't have the stomach to repeal "Obamacare" on Wednesday when it actually counted. The Senate voted 55-45 to reject legislation to throw out major portions of Barack Obama's law without replacing it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America says it anticipated President Donald Trump would spark controversy with a politically tinged speech at its national jamboree in West Virginia but felt obliged to invite him out of respect for his office....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Demonstrators have flocked to a military recruiting station in New York City to protest President Donald Trump's abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military....
Washington D.C., Jul 26, 2017 / 10:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On one of the hottest days of the year, more than 1,300 young people from around the country gathered together for WYD Unite, bringing together alumni of former World Youth Days as well as pilgrims from at least 52 Catholic dioceses around the nations.They gathered for the all-day event at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, named for the Pope who in 1984 began the World Youth Day celebrations to bring together millions of young people from around the globe to share and grow in their Catholic faith. From their starting place in Rome, World Youth Days have traveled across the world to six continents, most recently in 2016 to Pope John Paul II’s homeland of Poland.The smaller United States gathering focused upon the theme, “The Mighty Has Done Great Things for Me and Holy is His Name.” The gathering explored the radical “Yes” Mary gave at the Annunciation, as well as gratitude for how God has ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/The CrosiersBy Barbara J. FraserLIMA, Peru (CNS) -- When PopeFrancis visits Colombia in September, he will take his message of mercy andreconciliation to Cartagena, a city that still bears scars of its painfulhistory as a slave port. And he will walk the streets where another Jesuit, St.Peter Claver, put that message into practice four centuries ago.Canonized in 1888, St. PeterClaver is now considered the patron saint of human rights in Colombia. Butalthough the country abolished slavery in 1851 and passed a law prohibitingdiscrimination in 1993, racism persists.Many Afro-Colombians inCartagena, the "children of children of children of slaves ... oftenremain marginalized, abandoned by the government," said Father JorgeHernandez, who works with Afro-Colombian communities in and around the city. "Insome neighborhoods, people don't have running water. Inhumanity has becomenatural." The same is true in other LatinAmerican countries. Although about half the population of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ricardo Maldonado Rozo, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' decree to beatify twoColombian martyrs from two troubled eras in the South American country'shistory underscores his call for courageous witness amid violence andpersecution. "What does the church need today?" the pope asked earlierthis year at an evening prayer service honoring Christians killed under Nazism,communism, dictatorships and terrorism."Martyrs and witnesses, those everyday saints, thosesaints of an ordinary life lived with coherence. But it also needs those whohave the courage to accept the grace of being witnesses to the end, to thepoint of death," he said.The lives of Bishop Jesus Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve of Arauca, who was murderedby Colombian Marxist guerrillas in 1989, and Father Pedro Maria Ramirez, who was killed at thestart of the Colombian civil war in 1948, seemingly fit the pope's description.Their beatification, which will take place during the pope'svisi...
