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San Francisco, Calif., Oct 29, 2016 / 04:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When it comes to legalizing marijuana in California, the risks to children, teens and the poor are just too great, said four Bay Area bishops ahead of the November ballot. Discussing the state’s ballot initiative Proposition 64, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco warned that legalization suggests to children that drug use is acceptable. “If you don’t think teens will take up marijuana, look at the history of tobacco. It was ‘cool’ to smoke until the dangers became all too apparent,” he said. “It then took decades for the smoking rate to reach today’s low levels. Will legalized marijuana follow that same pattern?” Cordileone noted that unlike alcohol, there is no reliable standard to measure the effect of marijuana on a driver. He noted his own arrest for driving under the influence in 2012, saying that drivers will wrongly deem themselve...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A handful of recreational marijuana legalization drives has the medical pot industry bracing for something it never expected to deal with: competition....
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton lashed out Saturday at the FBI's handling of a new email review, leading a chorus of Democratic leaders who declared the bureau's actions just days before the election "unprecedented" and "deeply troubling." Emboldened Republican rival Donald Trump seized on the reignited email controversy, hoping to raise new doubts about Clinton's trustworthiness....
Hey NFL players: If you want a safe way to celebrate touchdowns and big plays, just hug it out....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- On the same day seven defendants celebrated their acquittal in the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bag rounds arrested nearly 150 oil pipeline protesters camped out in North Dakota....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign lashed out at the FBI on Saturday, saying there was no indication that a cache of recently discovered emails under review by the agency was connected to the Democratic nominee. Barnstorming the West, Republican rival Donald Trump pounced on the reignited email controversy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The longtime Hillary Clinton aide at the center of a renewed FBI email investigation testified under oath four months ago she never deleted old emails, while promising in 2013 not to take sensitive files when she left the State Department....
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) has released a Pastoral letter on marriage and family titled, ‘The Family in Zimbabwe in the light of Amoris Laetitia.’The Pastoral letter, addressed to all Zimbabwean families, is a reflection of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, 'Amoris Laetitia' - On the Joy of Love in the family, released in April 2016.In the introduction of this 18 paged letter, the Bishops wish "to promote and protect, support and strengthen the family in every way, especially at a time when families feel the pressure of political tensions, economic collapse and other forces."“The message which we as Bishops of Zimbabwe wish to convey is meant to cheer and encourage, fill with hope, to give praise, understanding and support to all married couples and families,” it reads.On sexuality integrated into humanity, the Bishops write that “God created a man for a woman and woman for man,” hence &ldqu...
The Catholic Church in Ghana will deploy 2000 election observers across the country during general elections slated for December.Matthew Eghan, the National President of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC), said that the observers selected from all the 20 dioceses of the Church in Ghana would be deployed across all the regions in the country to help ensure a free, fair, transparent and violent-free election on 7 December.Eghan was speaking at the end of a three-day civic education and election observation training workshop organised by the Justice and Peace Commission of the National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation at the Samaritan Villa in Kumasi, this week. This is according to Ghanaweb Online.Participants at the training workshop were taken through the roles and responsibilities of election observers and instructed on how to gather credible information during an election. They were also cautioned to be diligent as they emba...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Rolling Stone magazine publisher and co-founder Jann Wenner says in a video deposition that he disagreed with a top editor's decision to retract an entire article about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after the story was discredited....
