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PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton turned up the heat Wednesday on Republican candidates who are facing both tight election races and tough decisions on what to do about Donald Trump. She's now seeking to spread her new momentum to fellow Democrats on November ballots....
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Washington D.C., Oct 12, 2016 / 05:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In the closing weeks of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Catholics should pray and fast for “a culture of life,” one Catholic member of Congress has said.“Like in the time of Queen Esther, the faithful and faith-filled need to pray and fast for God’s mercy, healing, justice, humane laws and policies and conversion. An outpouring of the Holy Spirit,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, told pilgrims on the International Day of Prayer and Fasting on Monday.“For a time such as this, the urgency now is for persevering prayer including the Rosary and Chaplet of Mercy, asking God in Jesus’ name for protection for the weakest and most vulnerable – unborn children, persons with disabilities, and the frail elderly,” he continued.The 24th International Week of Prayer and Fasting took place from Oct. 2-10. It culminated in an all-day prayer...
Washington D.C., Oct 12, 2016 / 05:36 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A coalition of religious and civic leaders has denounced a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights which said appeals to religious freedom are usually just discrimination-in-disguise.“We took no position on the great cultural and moral debates facing our nation, except the position that in America everyone has a voice,” Dr. Tom Farr, president of the Religious Freedom Institute and director of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University, stated of the letter that he and other leaders signed.“Our founding generation would be scandalized that a government agency has asserted, in effect, that Americans who exercise their religious freedom are doing so with evil intent, and that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion should be considered null and void. Every American should condemn this report,” Dr. Farr continued.In September, a report by the U.S. Commissi...
By Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chiefliaison to Republican nominee Donald Trump for Catholic issues said thatemails released Oct. 11 by WikiLeaks "reveal the depths of the hostility of Hillary Clinton and her campaign toward Catholics."The emails illustrate "the openanti-Catholic bigotry of her senior advisers, who attack the deeply heldbeliefs and theology of Catholics," said liaison Joseph Cella, who is the founderof the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.On Oct. 12, Catholic News Servicesent an email to the Clinton campaign seeking comment, but there was noimmediate reply. A Time magazine story published online late Oct. 12 said BrianFallon, a Clinton spokesperson, responded to the charges of anti-Catholicism,calling it a "faux controversy" courtesy of a WikiLeaks hack.Cella was referring to a leakedemail chain with the subject "Conservative Catholicism" from 2011 in which JenniferPalmieri, a Catholic herself, who is now Clinton's communications director, andJohn Halpin, a...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- LeBron James blasted Donald Trump's crude remarks about women, calling it "trash talk" while refusing to even say the Republican presidential nominee's name. Tom Brady walked away from a news conference when asked about the candidate he has previously supported....
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota's Democratic governor said Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act is "no longer affordable," a stinging critique from a state leader who strongly embraced the law and proudly proclaimed health reform was working in Minnesota just a few years ago....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- French and Kurdish forces in northern Iraq were attacked by an exploding drone, the Pentagon said Wednesday, adding a new worry to the wars in Iraq and Syria as militant groups learn to weaponize their store-bought drones....
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A flight instructor and a student pilot had an altercation inside the cockpit of a small plane, and the instructor was unable to regain control from the trainee before the plane crashed near the headquarters of a military jet engine manufacturer, killing the student, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation into what happened said Wednesday....
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Brimming with new confidence, Hillary Clinton turned up the heat Wednesday on Republican candidates who are facing both tight election races and tough decisions on what to do about Donald Trump. She's now seeking to spread her new momentum to fellow Democrats on November ballots....
