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Washington D.C., Oct 18, 2016 / 05:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Treatable depression, financial gain from a patient's death, doctors who can write a fatal prescription with little knowledge of the person it's for – all things that supporters of physician assisted suicide in the District of Columbia would perhaps prefer not to discuss.But as the city council in the nation’s capital may soon legalize the procedure, both the Church and local citizens have taken up arms to label it as prejudiced against the “most vulnerable.”The bill is immoral, unethical, and unjust, said Dr. Lucia Silecchia, a law professor at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, and a D.C. citizen.“Thus, while the Catholic and Christian understanding of the dignity of human persons, made in the image and likeness of God undergirds the moral critique of such statutes, the medical opposition long predates Christ, and the legal objections should compel anyon...
DETROIT (AP) -- Several families filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against the state of Michigan and the Flint school district, saying more needs to be done to help students whose academic performance and behavior have worsened because of the city's lead-tainted water....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):...
BADANA, Iraq (AP) -- This farming village east of Mosul was turned into a bunker during more than two years of Islamic State rule: A network of tunnels and cramped living quarters betrays an extremist group increasingly forced to operate underground by a punishing air campaign and mounting territorial losses....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Stop whining," President Barack Obama rebuked Donald Trump on Tuesday, speaking out as seldom before on next month's election and chiding the Republican for sowing suspicion about the integrity of America's presidential vote....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador's government acknowledged on Tuesday that it cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet access at its embassy in London after the whistleblowing site published a trove of damaging emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign....
Various representatives from several African countries have this week participated in the 30th anniversary ceremonies of the death of former Mozambican President, Samora Machel. The commemoration ceremonies held at the Samora Machel Monument in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga, South Africa were attended by the country’s Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa. According to SABC news, the focus of the commemoration ceremonies on Wednesday shift to Mozambique.Samora died on 19 October 1986 when he and other officials were returning from an African leaders' meeting in Lusaka, Zambia. His plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains, an 800 km long, narrow range of mountains in Southern Africa.Samora Machel led his country to its independence from the Portuguese in 1975. He espoused a Marxist-Leninist approach to government.Vatican Radio’s Portuguese programme correspondent, in Maputo, Herminio Jose, went around to talk to some of Mozambique’s clergy about Samora’s l...
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Nancy WiechecYELLOWSTONENATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CNS) -- Jesuit Father Rick Malloy very much enjoys summersin Yellowstone National Park."I'ma fanatical fisherman," he admitted. "And a good one, too."Butexceptional fishing is not the main thing that brings him to Wyoming summerafter summer. He said it's the privilege and beauty of park ministry that keepshim coming back.Massin Yellowstone is "an experience of God unlike any other," he said. "It's areal privilege to be able to celebrate the Eucharist with people here in thepark."FatherMalloy is a cultural anthropologist, professor and chaplain at the Jesuit-runUniversity of Scranton in Pennsylvania. For the past seven summers, he has gonewest to minister in Yellowstone, do some writing and, of course, fish.CatholicNews Service caught up with him in early August, one of the park's busiestmonths.Itwas a late Saturday afternoon, and Yellowstone's Canyon area was teeming withpeople. A steady stream of cars and RVs m...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have to settle for historically low raises. The adjustment adds up to a monthly increase of less than $4 a month for an average recipient....
