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Charlotte, N.C., Jan 17, 2017 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A lawsuit against a Catholic high school claims that it was illegal discrimination to fire a teacher for contracting a same-sex civil marriage, but a law professor suggests the case will not make any progress.“What they're trying to do is they're trying to make new law in this case,” Prof. Robert Destro told CNA. “I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get their case dismissed.”Destro, a law professor of the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, served 16 years on the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights.Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina and the Diocese of Charlotte faces a lawsuit from a substitute teacher who says he was fired after he posted about his same-sex wedding on Facebook.The Charlotte, N.C. high school is part of the diocesan school system.Lonnie Billard had begun working at the school in 2001 as a full time faculty member. He taught Englis...
IMAGE: CNS/EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When a group of German Christians wasasked in 2014 to prepare materials for the 2017 Week of Prayer for ChristianUnity, their choice of a "wall" as a symbol of sin, evil and division explicitly referred to the Berlin Wall.The German reflections on the power of prayer to bring downwalls and the Gospel call to reconciliation were adopted by the World Councilof Church's Faith and Order Commission and the Vatican's Pontifical Council forPromoting Christian Unity and proposed to Christians worldwide for the Jan.18-25 octave of prayer."The image of the wall is very current today -- nowmore than when they wrote the reflection," said Father Anthony Currer, whocoordinates the Vatican contribution to the week of prayer.The U.S. political discussion of extending the wall alongthe border with Mexico, Pope Francis' frequent admonitions about buildingbridges rather than walls, the global refugee crisis -- all of that makes thepowerful symbol of ...
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's Transport Minister Darren Chester said on Wednesday that experts will continue analyzing data and scrutinizing debris washing ashore from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a bid to narrow down where it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. But Chester declined to specify what kind of breakthrough would convince officials to resume the search for the missing airliner that was suspended this week after almost three years....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- A Nigerian air force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp on Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and aid workers and wounding 200, a government official and doctors said....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary, has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months and has been hospitalized after suffering complications, the school system said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's choice to head the Interior Department on Tuesday rejected the president-elect's claim that climate change is a hoax, saying it is indisputable that environmental changes are affecting the world's temperature and human activity is a major reason....
TOKYO (AP) -- Caroline Kennedy is stepping down Wednesday after three years as U.S. ambassador to Japan, where she was welcomed like a celebrity and worked to deepen the U.S.-Japan relationship despite regular flare-ups over American military bases on the southern island of Okinawa....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul without a replacement, Congress' budget analysts said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's decision Tuesday to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence brought fresh attention to another figure involved in the Army leaker's case: Julian Assange....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the Army intelligence officer who leaked scores of classified documents to go free nearly three decades early....
