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By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The more women are involved in andcontribute to communities, politics, economics and the church, the morepositive changes will come about, Pope Francis said."Women are fully entitled to actively take part inall settings, and their rights must be affirmed and protected, includingthrough legal instruments wherever it may prove necessary," he said June9.The pope was speaking to members, consultors and guestsof the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, which was holding itsplenary assembly in Rome June 7-9. Participants had discussed the role of womenin teaching universal fraternity."We cannot truly call on God, the father of all, ifwe refuse to treat (others) in a brotherly way," Cardinal Jean-LouisTauran told the pope, quoting from "Nostra Aetate," the Vatican IIdeclaration that addressed the Catholic Church's relations with otherreligions.Pope Francis told the assembly that unfortunately theimportant ability of women to teach these value...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jerry Seinfeld has explained that he won't hug "a total stranger," days after he denied pop singer Kesha a hug in an exchange that was caught on camera and went viral....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby says he apologized to the family of the woman he is accused of drugging and assaulting only because her mother thought he was "a dirty old man," according to testimony read to the jury Friday at the comedian's trial....
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A judge has denied a request for a not-guilty verdict by an attorney for a Massachusetts woman charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly convincing her boyfriend to kill himself through a series of text messages....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Hours before a 17-year-old Alabama girl was killed in a bus crash, she wrote a final journal entry about her mission trip to Africa: "God has called me here and he's done so for a reason."...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A proposal for paid parental leave championed by Ivanka Trump could go back to the drawing board....
A leading journal of political philosophy took up the Black Lives Matter movement in its June issue without a single contribution from a black academic, triggering an outcry from African-American scholars....
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man led the midday prayers. Over their melodic recitation came a tapping sound as a locksmith installed higher-grade locks on the front door....
LONDON (AP) -- Spectacularly punished by voters who took away her majority in Parliament, a politically wounded but defiant Theresa May soldiered on Friday as Britain's prime minister, resisting pressure to resign after the failure of a high-stakes election gamble that made the massive challenge of untangling Britain from the European Union only more complex and uncertain....
