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Washington D.C., Oct 6, 2016 / 04:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine was gravely wrong to say he personally opposed abortion while taking a pro-choice stance in public office, a moral theologian says.Kaine, a Catholic, took a “gravely immoral position” and one “that is incorrect,” Fr. Thomas Petri, dean of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., told CNA of Kaine’s argument that he tries to “follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life” but will not “mandate that [faith] for everybody else” through opposing abortion in public office.“This is a human issue, not a religious issue,” Fr. Petri said of abortion. He pointed to Pope St. John Paul’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” which insisted that right to life is the “primary right” and “without life, there are no other rights.”One must oppose abortion not just on religi...
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct 6, 2016 / 04:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Indiana Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence’s bid to keep Syrian refugees out of his state was blocked by a federal appeals court this week.The appeals court, made up of a panel of three well-known conservative judges, upheld a lower court’s decision, which said Pence was discriminating against Syrians by blocking them from receiving federal funds to resettle in his state.One member of the appeals court is on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees.In a unanimous decision, the appeals court said that Pence acted illegally by accepting federal funds to resettle refugees from other countries and denying them to Syrian refugees.In November 2015, Pence suspended state agencies’ involvement in the relocation of Syrian refugees following terrorist attacks that killed more than 120 people in Paris on Nov. 19, 2015.This week, the f...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Giorgio Onorati, EPABy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Typically, the Facebook page for the Dioceseof Providence Office of Vocations in Rhode Island gets anywhere from 3 to 40 likes on theirposts -- most which celebrate seminarians, priests and their ministry. But ittook an actor and former member of a boy band to set its Facebook page onfire, not with a song, but with a video praising the priesthood, and one whichhas been viewed -- as of Oct. 6 -- 560,000 times, and received more than 6,000 likesand upward of 8,000 shares.Actor Mark Wahlberg, a native of Boston, where the NationalConference of Diocesan Vocation Directors held its annual conference Sept. 30?Oct.7, made the homemade video shown to those who attended, and later posted onDiocese of Providence vocations office Facebook page."We, the Catholic faithful, are counting on you to bring usgood and holy priests," Wahlberg said in the video. "Enjoy my hometown thisweek and know that I will pray for you and for ...
DALLAS (AP) -- State agents raided the Dallas headquarters of adult classified ad portal Backpage and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer on Thursday following allegations that adult and child sex-trafficking victims had been forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Immigration authorities caught just over half of the people who illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico last year, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security report that offers one of the most detailed assessments of border security ever compiled....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter's former senior military aide used his government credit card at strip clubs or gentlemen's clubs in Rome and Seoul, drank in excess and had "improper interactions" with women during business travel with Carter, according to a report released Thursday by the Defense Department inspector general....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The battle for Aleppo has gripped the world, but it is hardly the only major front among the tangle of adversaries clashing across war-torn Syria....
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Russian military on Thursday strongly warned the United States against striking the Syrian army, noting that its air defense weapons in Syria stand ready to fend off any attack....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward Florida with potentially catastrophic winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland....
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) -- An American researcher killed in a rock attack by protesters in Ethiopia this week was a talented scientist with a bright future, the chairman of her department at the University of California, Davis said Thursday....
