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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In recognizing civil unions ofheterosexual and homosexual couples, the Italian government has equated thoseunions to marriage, said the head of the Italian bishops' conference.While some supporters of the new law, which passed thelegislature May 11, insisted the law did not recognize gay marriage, CardinalAngelo Bagnasco of Genoa, president of the bishops' conference, said thedifferences are only in the vocabulary used and in "easily circumventedlegal devices."The bill passed after its sponsors removed languageexplicitly allowing one partner in a gay union to adopt the biological child ofthe other partner. Supporters of the bill said it now would be up to individualjudges in adoption cases to decide."The final blow -- which is already being spoken ofpublicly" -- Cardinal Bagnasco said, would be the legalization ofsurrogate motherhood. Surrogacy, he said, "exploits the female body"and profits from the poverty of women willin...
GENEVA (AP) -- The "Oppenheimer Blue" diamond sold Wednesday for more than 56.8 million Swiss francs ($57.6 million) including fees, crushing the previous record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction....
MIAMI (AP) -- George Zimmerman says he's vetting bids after closing an auction for the pistol he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during an altercation....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A nonprofit organization headed by a Lebanese citizen held prisoner in Iran received grants totaling $730,000 from the U.S. government for projects in the Middle East, The Associated Press has learned....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday released a list of 11 potential picks to replace Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, a mix of federal and state judges that appeared tailored to win over conservatives still skeptical of his candidacy....
Vatican City, May 18, 2016 / 12:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While Pope Francis might have chastised animal-lovers who treat their pets better than people in last week’s general audience, that didn’t stop him from giving a good pat on the head to Magnum – the Saint Bernard with VIP access to today’s audience.Magnum is quite literally a “Great Saint Bernard.” Bred by an order of priests known as Augustinian Canons, he was born on the Great Saint Bernard Pass, one of the highest passes in the Alps connecting Switzerland and Italy. He is also a descendant of Barry, one of the most famous St. Bernard rescue dogs known to history.Long before Beethoven drooled his way onto the big screen, Saint Bernard dogs had been made famous by the Augustinians for a more noble cause: saving lives.Since the early 18th century, the Augustinian monks who lived in the treacherous Great Saint Bernard Pass kept the dogs in order to help them on their rescue missions to s...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A 19-year-old Israeli woman has spent more than three months in military prison in what supporters say is the longest sentence ever handed down to a female conscientious objector....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Among the dozens killed when a truck bomb struck a crowded market last week in Baghdad's Sadr City were two brothers, the only sons of Talib Jassum Issa, who got the news in a phone call just minutes after the attack....
BOSTON (AP) -- The recipient of the first U.S. penis transplant says he is looking forward to walking out of the hospital a "complete" man....
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Two powerful earthquakes jolted Ecuador on Wednesday, a magnitude 6.7 early morning temblor followed by a 6.8 shake around midday....
