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Marquette, Mich., Aug 24, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Diocese of Marquette in Michigan says it is already experiencing success in their process of adopting a Catholic liberal arts curriculum for all its schools, rather than using Common Core State Standards.The schools in the diocese previously had no set curriculum. The adoption of a classical curriculum comes at a time when two bills that would repeal and replace the Common Core State Standards are being considered in Michigan’s state legislature.In June, Marquette Bishop John Doerfler said in a statement that after serious consideration, the diocesan schools would not be adopting Common Core State Standards “which were developed for the public school system.”“That said, we acknowledge that there is a base of adequate secular material in the Common Core State Standards that faith-based schools could reference as part of their educational programming,” he said.“While we respectfully und...
Vatican City, Aug 24, 2016 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Instead of giving the usual catechesis during his Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis decided to postpone the speech, leading pilgrims in praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary for the victims of an earthquake that rocked central Italy earlier that morning.“On hearing the news of the earthquake that has struck central Italy and which has devastated many areas and left many wounded, I cannot fail to express my heartfelt sorrow and spiritual closeness to all those present in the zones afflicted,” the Pope said Aug. 24.He offered his condolences to all who have lost loved ones, and his expressed his spiritual closeness to those who are “anxious and afraid.”At least 21 people have been killed and countless buried under rubble after an earthquake hit central Italy early Wednesday morning.The original 6.2-magnitude quake hit the town of Norcia, about 65 miles northeast of Rome, at 3:36a.m. with sev...
Washington D.C., Aug 24, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Obama administration guidance that would require schools to comply with transgender bathroom policies or lose federal funding.“Schools have a duty to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of all students, and this order certainly helps them in fulfilling that duty,” said Matt Sharp, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom.“The Obama administration cannot unilaterally disregard and redefine federal law to accomplish its political agenda of forcing girls to share locker rooms and showers with boys.”The religious freedom legal group Alliance Defending Freedom is litigating several cases involving the federal order in Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio.Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Aug. 21 issued a preliminary injunction on the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, a fed...
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) -- When Asha Jones and other Grand Canyon interns arrived for their summer at the national park, they were struck by its sheer immensity, beauty and world-class hiking trails. Soon, they noticed something else....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Tigers use a grunt-like snort called chuffing as a greeting, short roars for intimidation and long roars to find mates....
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, knocking glasses off tables and sending people running out of buildings in the country's largest city....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The North Carolina Highway Patrol is urging people not to jump to conclusions as state agents investigate how a deaf driver with a history of minor offenses ended up dead after leading a trooper on a 10-mile chase....
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) -- A devastating earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 38 people were killed in hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig survivors out of the rubble, but the toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets....
(Vatican Radio) An earthquake struck central Italy near the town of Perugia early Wednesday morning, killing at least 6 people with others trapped under rubble.The 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit at 3:35 am, 76 km southeast of Perugia in the small town of Accumoli at a depth of 10 km, and was followed by 3 more aftershocks.Fire Department spokesman, Luca Cari, told Reuters news service the worst hit towns are likely to be Accumoli, Amatrice, Posta, and Arquata del Tronto.The mayor of the nearby town of Amatrice, Sergio Pirozzi, told Radio RAI 1 the town had sustained heavy damages."The roads in and out of town are cut off. Half the town is gone. There are people under the rubble... There's been a landslide and a bridge might collapse."Buildings shook over much of the Italian penisula from Rimini to Naples.
(Vatican Radio) Residents in central Italy awoke this Wednesday morning to the tremors of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake which struck just after 3.30 am local time.Listen to Lydia O'Kane's report As daylight dawned, the damage that had be wrought by the quake in parts of the regions of Lazio and Umbria was clearly visible. Television images showed collapsed buildings and sizable debris littering the streets.The worst hit towns were Amatrice, and Accumoli, with the epicenter in Norcia. Shocks were also felt 170 kilometers away in Rome.A number of people are known to have died in the quake and there are residents reportedly trapped under rubble.An emotional Mayor of Accumoli, Stefano Petrucci told Italy’s RAI Television that he knew of one family that was trapped. “There is at least one victim", he said, "and a family of four – two children and their parents – are trapped under the rubble and are not showing signs of life.”The mayor o...
