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Austin, Texas, Jan 12, 2017 / 04:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Changes to divorce law are up for consideration in the Texas legislature, with supporters saying it is too easy to dissolve a civil marriage.“There needs to be some type of due process. There needs to be some kind of mechanism to where that other spouse has a defense,” said Rep. Matt Krause, a Republican from Fort Worth.“I think people have seen the negative effects of divorce and the breakdown of the family for a long time,” he added, saying he thought his bill would help reverse the trend.The bill would remove insupportability, meaning “no fault,” as a grounds for divorce, the Austin-based NBC affiliate KXAN News reports. Rep. Krause had also filed the bill in the 2016 legislative session.A spokesperson for the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops said the conference supports legislation that discourages divorce, including the proposal to end “no-fault” divorce.“No-fault ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Some of the conflict-of-interest issues swirling around President-elect Donald Trump in Washington are playing out on a smaller scale in West Virginia, where the richest man in the state - an Appalachian coal baron with real estate, resort and farm holdings, too - is about to be sworn in as governor....
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A week before the inauguration, CNN is at war with an incoming president, not necessarily for what it reported but for what its reporting unleashed....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- More than 40 percent of California is out of drought, federal drought-watchers said Thursday at the tail end of powerful storms that sent thousands of people fleeing from flooding rivers in the north, unleashed burbling waterfalls in southern deserts, and doubled the vital snowpack in the Sierra Nevada in little more than a week....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Esteban Santiago stood alone in the cold one day last month outside Mom & Pop's liquor store in Anchorage. He was waving his arms and having a terrible argument in the parking lot....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At the dusk of both of their political careers, surrounded by teary friends and family, President Barack Obama on Thursday bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Joe Biden, the man he called "the finest vice president we have ever seen."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under mounting pressure from Donald Trump and rank-and-file Republicans, congressional leaders are talking increasingly about chiseling an early bill that dismantles President Barack Obama's health care law and begins to supplant it with their own vision of how the nation's $3 trillion-a-year medical system should work....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident....
Rome, Italy, Jan 12, 2017 / 10:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After former Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Malta Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager was dismissed in early December, many have pinpointed the decision to a contraception scandal related to a project he was overseeing.But a senior official of the Order has said that while the incident was a contributing factor in Boeselager’s resignation, the reasons – while confidential – are much broader.“The reasons for the dismissal are confidential,” but they are “more complex” than reducing it to just the contraception incident, Eugenio Ajroldi di Robbiate, Communications Director for the Knights of Malta, told CNA Jan. 12.Problems initially arose when it was learned that the Order's charity branch, under Boeselager’s watch, had inadvertently been involved in distributing condoms in Burma to prevent HIV.However, Robbiate said Boeselager wasn’t initially aware that condoms were bei...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- Christians are called to renew their faithfulness to God everyday and not procrastinate when it comes to their own personal conversion, PopeFrancis said. A hardenedheart that sets aside "receiving the love of God" for another day,may find that it is too late to enjoy the heavenly reward awaiting those whosehearts are strong in the faith, the pope said Jan. 12 in his homily during Massat the Domus Sanctae Marthae. "I saythis not to frighten you but simply to say that our life is a 'today' -- todayor never," he said. "Tomorrow will be an eternal 'tomorrow' with nosunset, with the Lord forever if I am faithful to this 'today.' And thequestion that I ask you is what the Holy Spirit asks: 'How do I live this'today?'" he said. The popecentered his homily on the day's reading from the Letter to the Hebrews inwhich the author urges the Christian community to "encourage yourselvesdaily while it is still 'today,' so that none of you may grow harden...
