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Brooklyn, N.Y., Jun 7, 2016 / 04:49 pm (CNA).- A swimming pool in New York City has recently come under fire for its women-only swimming hours.The policy was put in place to allow Hasidic Jewish women in the area, whose religion forbids them to swim with men, a chance to use the pool on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, and Sunday afternoons.Although the Brooklyn pool has kept some women-only hours since the 1990s, the practice only came to the attention of the wider public when someone complained about it to the city's Commission on Human Rights, the Associated Press reports.Critics suggest the policy could be a violation of the establishment clause or of the city's human rights law, which bans sex discrimination in public accommodations.Dr. Daniel I. Mark, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Villanova University, said the women-only hours seem like a reasonable accommodation.“It’s not a violation of the separation of church and...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A California judge is facing demands for his removal after sentencing a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman behind a campus dumpster....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gay, transgender and other groups blocked from participating in a high-level U.N. meeting on AIDS represent the populations most affected by the disease and should take center-stage at the event, advocates said Tuesday....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The federal death penalty trial of a white man charged with shooting and killing nine black parishioners during a Bible study at their Charleston church will be held in November, a judge announced Tuesday....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Latest on a car bomb attack Tuesday in Istanbul all times local):...
DETROIT (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday threw out the murder convictions of a young Detroit man who pleaded guilty to killing four people when he was 14, a remarkable turnaround in a case that has been in doubt for years after a professional hit man stepped forward and took responsibility for the slayings at a drug den....
NAYMIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- After securing the southern edge of militant-held Fallujah, seven battalions of Iraqi special forces units have been unable to advance for two days - a delay that commanders say isn't due to counterattacks or difficult terrain, but rather to disagreements about battlefield strategy among the disparate Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leading Republicans united Tuesday in an extraordinary denunciation of Donald Trump's attacks on a federal judge, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling them the "textbook definition of a racist comment" though he stood by his endorsement of the presumptive presidential nominee....
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IMAGE: NS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New WorldBy Colleen DulleWASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Deacon JosephJensen entered Our Lady ofGood Counsel Passionist Seminary in Warrenton, Missouri, in the late1950s, he realized he was the only student in his class who had read the Bible.Deacon Jensen, now a lecturer inbiblical studies at Georgetown University in Washington, credited his Seventh-day Adventistgrandfather with exposing him to Scripture. Largely though, he said, "Igrew up with the idea that Catholics didn't read the Bible."Such a common misconception could bechanging.A new State of the Bible Survey by theAmerican Bible Society found that 77 percent of Catholics want to read theBible more often. Although the percentage has fluctuated in recent years, itreflects an 8 percentage point increase since January 2013, just before PopeFrancis' election."There's come, I think, some veryencouraging data on Catholics" thanks to the so-called "Franciseffect," Jason Malec, U.S. mission director...
