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Vatican City, Jun 22, 2016 / 04:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a video message sent Wednesday to a gathering of advocates for abolition of the death penalty, Pope Francis welcomed their efforts as a way to promote the right to life of all persons.“Nowadays the death penalty is unacceptable, however grave the crime of the convicted person,” the Pope said in his June 22 message to the Sixth World Congress against the Death Penalty, which is being held in Oslo this week. More than 1,000 people are in attendance from governments, international organizations, and society.Capital punishment “is an offence to the inviolability of life and to the dignity of the human person,” Pope Francis continued. “It likewise contradicts God’s plan for individuals and society, and his merciful justice.”He expressed his “personal appreciation” to the participants for their “commitment to a world free of the death penalty.”That “public opi...
Washington D.C., Jun 22, 2016 / 04:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Obama administration has rejected a challenge to the State of California’s requirement that health care plans include abortion coverage. A major federal budget amendment intended to protect abortion foes does not apply, it ruled.Leaders with the U.S. bishops’ conference said it was “shocking” that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allowed the State of California to force all employers, including churches, to fund and facilitate elective abortions.“Even those who disagree on the issue of life should be able to respect the conscience rights of those who wish not to be involved in supporting abortion,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore said June 21.The cardinal chairs the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, while the archbishop chairs the conference’s ad hoc religious freedom committee.California’s mandatory abort...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI's decision to retire and live a life fullydedicated to prayer represents one of the most important lessons he gives theworld's priests, Pope Francis said.Inretirement, Pope Benedict shows "in an even clearer way" the core ofpriestly ministry is a life fully immersed in God, something "thatdeacons, priests and bishops must never forget," Pope Francis said in awritten preface to a new book."Theprimary and most important service is not the management of 'day-to-daybusiness,' but praying for others without interruption, body and soul, exactlylike the pope emeritus does today -- constantly immersed in God."Thenew book, "To Teach and Learn God's Love," was to be released inGerman, Spanish and Italian June 29 -- the 65th anniversary of Pope Benedict'sordination to the priesthood. Pope Francis was scheduled to join Pope Benedictcelebrating the anniversary during an audience June 28 in the ...
By WASHINGTON(CNS) -- A federal agency has determined that California can continue to demandthat all health plans under the jurisdiction of the state's Department ofManaged Health Care -- "even those purchased by churches and otherreligious organizations" -- cover elective abortions for any reason.Thecoverage includes late-term abortions and "those performed for reasons of'sex selection.'"Thechairmen of two U.S. Catholic bishops' committees June 22 said the administrativeruling issued a day earlier by the U.S. Department of health and Human Servicesfails to respect the right to life and religious freedom."Itis shocking that HHS has allowed the state of California to force all employers-- even churches -- to fund and facilitate elective abortions in their healthinsurance plans," said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York andArchbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore.Thecardinal is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee onPro-Life Activities, and Archbishop Lori c...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Thursday trumpeted the success of a powerful new midrange ballistic missile test that propelled one of the weapons about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), saying it would allow strikes on U.S. forces throughout the region....
LONDON (AP) -- With Britain's membership in the European Union on the line, campaigners from the prime minister on down blanketed the country Wednesday trying to convert the undecided on the final day before the crucial vote....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The nasal spray version of the annual flu vaccine failed to protect kids again last year, the latest in a string of failures that has prompted an expert panel to recommend that doctors stop giving it to patients....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton pushed back against Donald Trump's questions about her religion and her competence Wednesday, casting him as a candidate with not much else to say about how he'd lead the nation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A small plane with two sick U.S. workers left Antarctica on Wednesday in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station, officials said....
NEW YORK (AP) -- With the cameras it uses to cover Congress shut off, C-SPAN turned to social media feeds on Wednesday to beam live coverage of the House Democrat's sit-in to demand votes on gun control legislation...
