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New York City, N.Y., Nov 7, 2016 / 04:44 pm (CNA).- Fr. Frank Pavone, head of the controversial pro-life group Priest for Life, came under fire Monday for a video of him standing behind an altar with an aborted baby in an effort to support Donald Trump.Ed Mechmann, director of public policy for the Archdiocese of New York, said the use of an aborted baby “as a prop” is “absolutely appalling, and deserves to be repudiated by all of us who consider ourselves to be pro-life in the fullest meaning of that word.”On Nov. 7, Fr. Pavone posted a video on Facebook supporting Donald Trump for president. The video includes a naked, dead baby lying on an altar, as Fr. Pavone stands behind the altar, talking about abortion.“A human being has been sacrificed and the altar of God has been desecrated, all for politics,” Mechmann said in a blog post on the Archdiocese of New York website. “Everyone who respects the dignity of every human person should reject...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Thousands of earthquakes have rattled Oklahoma and neighboring states in recent years, with the most significant portion traced to the underground injection of wastewater left over from oil and gas production. The latest strong temblor - a magnitude 5.0 - damaged dozens of buildings in Cushing, Oklahoma, but spared a major oil terminal and caused no major injuries....
WOODRUFF, S.C. (AP) -- The Latest on a South Carolina man who confessed to killing four people in 2003 after authorities found a woman chained in a storage container on his property (all times local):...
CUSHING, Okla. (AP) -- Dozens of buildings sustained "substantial damage" after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck an Oklahoma town that's home to one of the world's key oil hubs, but officials said Monday that no damage has been reported at the oil terminal....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- In a story Nov. 4 about hydroponic farming in Alaska, The Associated Press reported erroneously the first name of a founder of Vertical Harvest Hydroponics in Anchorage. His name is Dan Perpich, not Ron Perpich....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI's handling of its Hillary Clinton email probe has undercut the bureau's carefully crafted image as unquestionably outside the political fray....
NEW YORK (AP) -- FBI Director James Comey, already criticized over his handling of Hillary Clinton's email investigation in the final days of the presidential campaign, was accepting a lifetime achievement award Monday night at a dinner organized by a law enforcement support group whose board includes three people with longtime ties to Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):...
Washington D.C., Nov 7, 2016 / 10:10 am (CNA).- As Americans across the country prepare to step into the voting booth tomorrow, what are the most important principles for Catholics seeking to form their consciences according to Church teaching?The answer can’t be reduced to a single issue, but is a matter of weighing candidates’ positions on the different topics at stake, examining the moral hierarchy of issues and rejecting intrinsically evil acts.The U.S. bishops’ conference attempts to offer guidance through its document, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.“It is our hope that by reading the document, they will inform their own consciences as to Church teachings, which require us to make sound moral judgements based on the truths and tenets of our faith,” said Norma Montenegro Flynn, assistant director of media relations at the U.S. bishops’ conference Office of Public Affairs.She said that while the document is “not a ‘vo...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Francois Gloutnay, PresenceBy Simon CaldwellOXFORD, England (CNS) -- Thespread of gender theory is misleading so many Catholics that a high-leveldocument may be required to correct the errors of the ideology, a Dutchcardinal said.Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht,Netherlands, said a papal encyclical or other magisterial document "mightappear to be necessary" to counter the spread of the new theory thatgender can be determined by personal choice rather than by biology.He said even Catholic parentswere beginning to accept that their own children can choose their genderspartly because "they don't hear anything else."The church, he said, now had anurgent duty to remind them of the truth of its teaching about the human body.He told Catholic News Service ina Nov. 7 interview in Oxford that Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis haveaddressed the subject within the past five years as each noted that the theorywas taking root in Western societies."Perhaps a document only onthis p...
