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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is poised to announce new rules allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the U.S. military, amid concerns from senior military leaders who believe the department is moving too fast and has yet to resolve many details, U.S. officials told The Associated Press....
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Disenchantment with the European Union is not limited to British voters who opted to leave the bloc....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Police in Istanbul conducted a series raids in the city targeting Islamic State suspects, the state-run news agency reported Thursday, following the gunfire and suicide bomb attack at Ataturk Airport which killed 42 people....
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s. Membership dwindled, a unified group fractured, and one-time members went to prison for a string of murderous attacks against blacks. Many assumed the group was dead, a white-robed ghost of hate and violence....
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Michael Phelps surged to the wall, and then whipped around to spot his time....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Six months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior military leaders expressed concern this week that the launch of new Pentagon rules allowing transgender service members to serve openly in the U.S. military is moving too quickly, arguing that details must still be resolved, several senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press....
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Sion, Switzerland, Jun 29, 2016 / 02:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After indications of progress toward reconciliation earlier this year, the head of the Society of St. Pius X stated Wednesday that canonical recognition is not what the priestly society primarily seeks.“The Society of Saint Pius X, in the present state of grave necessity which gives it the right and duty to administer spiritual aid to the souls that turn to it, does not seek primarily a canonical recognition,” Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the SSPX, wrote in a June 29 communique.He added that the SSPX “has a right” to canonical recognition “as a Catholic work.”The society “has only one desire,” he said: “faithfully to bring the light of the bi-millennial Tradition which shows the only route to follow in this age of darkness in which the cult of man replaces the worship of God, in society as in the Church.”Bishop Fellay's statement was issued after...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Octavio DuranBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Relics of Blessed Oscar Romero, including a handkerchiefwith blood from the day he was assassinated, will briefly be part of the U.S.Catholic Church's Fortnight for Freedom observance July 1 in Los Angeles.A handkerchief with blood from the day Archbishop Romero wasmartyred in El Salvador and a microphone he often used when he celebrated Massevery Sunday will be present at a special noon Mass at the Cathedral of OurLady of Angels and will be available for public veneration until 2 p.m., said astatement from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Blessed Romero's relics will join those of St. Thomas Moreand St. John Fisher, but the Salvadoran martyr's relics will remain in LosAngeles and will not travel with the other relics for the closing of theFortnight for Freedom in Washington July 4.In a statement, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said BlessedRomero, who was beatified in May 2015, "advocated for Christian love, remindingth...
