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Washington D.C., May 24, 2016 / 05:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After sending the Little Sisters’ HHS mandate case back to the circuit courts on May 16, the Supreme Court voided two more mandate cases with Catholic plaintiffs on Monday.The court was expected to rule this summer on the constitutionality of the “opt-out” process for non-profits with the HHS contraception mandate.The Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the poor elderly in homes across the country, have argued that the process – where they would notify the government of their religious objection to providing the coverage for contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs for employees – still forced them to be complicit with evil.Since the sisters knew that voicing their objection would ultimately trigger the coverage being provided within the structure of their health plan, they would still be “facilitating access to contraceptives and abortifacients,” they said.Th...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A former consultant to a pontifical commission who denied to aVatican court that she leaked documents about the Vatican's financial reform to an Italianjournalist had admitted to sending the documents when she was firstinterrogated, a Vatican policeman said. Stefano DeSantis, an officer investigating the leakingof the documents, testified May 24 that Francesca Chaouqui told Vatican policeofficials that she sent documents regarding the Vatican Asset Management (VAM) toGianluigi Nuzzi, author of "Merchants in the Temple.""We never assumed that she gave the documents, sheadmitted to it," DeSantis told the court. Chaouqui is on trial, alongwith Msgr. Vallejo Balda, secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairsof the Holy See, and Nicola Maio, the monsignor's former assistant, for"committing several illegal acts of divulging news and documentsconcerning fundamental interests of the Holy See and (Vatican City)State." Nuzzi and Emiliano ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- If you spend billions of dollars to build it, they will come....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies dove deeper into Donald Trump's record Tuesday, launching a new round of attacks designed to paint the billionaire businessman as profiting off the housing crisis that hurt millions of Americans....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his final stretch as president, Barack Obama is driving the United States toward friendlier relations with longstanding adversaries, working to consign bitter enmities with Vietnam, Iran, Cuba and Myanmar to the history books....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- She called him "Mr. Cosby" and considered him a trusted friend and mentor....
Vatican City, May 24, 2016 / 12:34 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After his historic meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican Monday, Egypt's Grand Imam of al Azhar issued a global appeal to counter terrorism, which he said is “deviant” of true Islam and threatens the both east and west alike.“I come from the Middle East where I live and I suffer, along with others, the consequences of the rivers of blood and cadavers, and there is no logical reason for this catastrophe that we are living day and night,” Imam Ahmed al Tayyeb told Vatican Radio in an interview published May 24.He acknowledged that terrorism exists, but stressed that “Islam has nothing to do with this terrorism, and this applies to Ulama Muslims and to Christians and Muslims in the East.”“Those who kill Muslims, and who also kill Christians, have misunderstood the texts of Islam either intentionally or by negligence.”Al Tayyeb issued a global appeal asking that the entire worl...
IDOMENI, Greece (AP) -- It grew to the size of a small town, becoming a symbol of Europe's closed border policy for migrants and refugees. On Tuesday, Greek authorities began to dismantle it....
CAIRO (AP) -- Body parts recovered from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 showed signs of burns and were so small that they suggested the jet was brought down by an explosion, a member of the team examining the remains said Tuesday. But the idea of a blast was promptly dismissed by the head of Egypt's forensic agency as "baseless" speculation....
