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Washington D.C., Apr 24, 2017 / 04:32 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A California university came under fire for dispensing Plan B contraceptive pill in a vending machine, with one critic calling the move inadequate in meeting the real needs of women.“Colleges and universities should be offering pregnant and parenting students options of housing, financial aid, diaper decks, and childcare instead of handing over abortion drugs,” said Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students for Life.“No woman should be forced to choose between the life of her child and her education,” she told CNA.A study room at the University of California Davis recently installed a “Wellness To Go” vending machine that includes Plan B among other items such as condoms, tampons, pregnancy tests and Advil.The move has been met with mixed reactions from students, with one calling it a “great thing for women,” according to CNN affiliate KTXL.However, another student slamme...
Little Rock, Ark., Apr 24, 2017 / 04:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As Arkansas prepares to conduct the first double execution in the U.S. since 2000, Catholics prayed for all involved in the execution and the victims of the capital crimes.“All of the actions around these executions in Arkansas display the flaws of the death penalty,” said Catholic Mobilizing Network in a statement to CNA April 24. “Both Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are in poor health, raising the risk of complications likely to occur with the lethal injection protocol. Kenneth Williams, set to be executed on Thursday, has an outstanding intellectual disability case as well,” the organization said.Voicing prayers for both the victims and those involved in the scheduled executions, the group noted that both “Jones and Williams have taken responsibility for their crimes,” and said that this action “should be met with mercy.”“This forces you to ask the question, wh...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carrie McClish, Catholic VoiceBy Carrie McClishOAKLAND, Calif. (CNS) -- A newshiny truck is bringing food to senior citizens in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood andnearby communities.A year in the making, the Mercy Brown Bag Program hasexpanded, with the truck visiting several locales and offering assistance to seniorsfaced with the high cost of rent and medication.Krista Lucchesi, director of the program that is partof the services of the MercyRetirement and Care Center, couldn't stop smiling as she looked at the vehicleparked behind the residential care facility.Having the truck "now iskind of amazing for all of us," she told The Catholic Voice, newspaper ofthe Oakland Diocese.Staff and volunteers cheered thetruck as it arrived April 2 after a cross-country trip from St. Louis, where itwas built. Nicole St. Lawrence,Mercy Brown Bag's assistant director, brought the truck west on a mission to helpstem the tide of senior hunger in Alameda County.Most recipients enro...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bill O'Reilly says he's sad and surprised that he's off TV but is confident the truth will come out about his exit from Fox News....
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The head of Bethel Heights Vineyard looked out over the 100 acres of vines her crew of 20 Mexicans had just finished pruning, worried about what will happen if the Trump administration presses ahead with its crackdown on immigrants....
HONOLULU (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence ended his trip to Asia on Monday with a thanks to U.S. service members based in Hawaii and promises of robust military spending under President Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the world braces for a possible North Korean nuclear test, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged restraint in a call to President Donald Trump. American's U.N. envoy warned of a strike if Pyongyang attacks a U.S. military base or tests an intercontinental ballistic missile....
VARNER, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas was proceeding with plans to conduct the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the first to move forward, turning back the inmate's claims that his poor health could cause excruciating pain during the lethal injection....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sure enough, the big trans-Pacific trade deal is toast, climate change action is on the ropes and various regulations from the Obama era have been scrapped. It's also a safe bet President Donald Trump hasn't raced a bicycle since Jan. 20, keeping that vow....
Vatican City, Apr 24, 2017 / 10:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Saturday comforted the sister of Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old priest who was killed by ISIS sympathizers while celebrating Mass in Normandy, France last summer.According to the Associated Press, the Pope gripped the hands of Roselyne Hamel and spoke quietly to her during an April 22 liturgy honoring the “new martyrs” of the 20th and 21st centuries in the Basilica of St Bartholomew on Rome’s Tiber Island.Fr. Hamel was killed July 26, 2016 while celebrating Mass after two armed gunmen stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. The assailants entered the church and took the priest and four others hostage. Local law enforcement reported that the priest’s throat was slit in the attack, and that both of the hostage takers were shot dead by police. The attackers were identified as Islamist extremists.Pope Francis issued a statement at the time decrying the “absurd vi...
