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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In-house newsletters from the clandestine National Security Agency have been released by an online news site - part of the mountain of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- As Oregon and Kentucky queue up to vote in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, the pall of a divisive state party convention in Nevada hangs over the race....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Kevin Durant scored 26 points, including a key 17-foot jumper with 30.7 seconds left, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Golden State Warriors 108-102 on their home floor in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals Monday night....
BOSTON (AP) -- A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the nation's first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many U.S. veterans maimed by roadside bombs....
Remember the scene in Forrest Gump where little Jenny & Forrest run into the fields and pray...
Washington D.C., May 16, 2016 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As an alternative to the “deeply disturbing” new federal guidance on transgender regulations for schools, the U.S. bishops pointed to the words of Pope Francis in offering a positive path to young people.“The guidance fails to address a number of important concerns and contradicts a basic understanding of human formation so well expressed by Pope Francis: that ‘the young need to be helped to accept their own body as it was created’,” the bishops said, quoting the words of Pope Francis in his 2016 exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia.”“Children, youth, and parents in these difficult situations deserve compassion, sensitivity, and respect,” the bishops said. “All of these can be expressed without infringing on legitimate concerns about privacy and security on the part of the other young students and parents.”They said the new federal guidance “does not even...
New York City, N.Y., May 16, 2016 / 04:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The drug company Pfizer has announced it will no longer sell drugs for use in lethal injections because it objects to their use in executions.“Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve. Consistent with these values, Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment,” the company said in an April 2016 policy position paper.The company is enforcing a distribution restriction for seven drugs that have been a part of lethal injection protocols or have considered for such protocols.The new policy means there is no remaining open-market source of lethal injection drugs in the U.S., the New York Times reports. Over 20 American and European companies have adopted restrictions on lethal injection drug provision, sometimes as a result of advocacy from death penalty opponents. The European Union has banned the export of the drugs used in...
Washington D.C., May 16, 2016 / 05:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A significant upgrade to a landmark religious freedom law passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday afternoon.Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), the bill’s author, outlined what is at stake abroad for religious freedom in a statement: “The world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of international religious freedom, a crisis that continues to create millions of victims; a crisis that undermines liberty, prosperity and peace; a crisis that poses a direct challenge to the US interests in the Middle East, Russia, China and sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.”The 2015 Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act passed the House May 16 by unanimous voice vote. It had strong bipartisan support – 116 co-sponsors, including 20 Democrats. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) was the lead co-sponsor.The bill makes the first big upgrades to the original International Religious Freedom Act passed in 1998, a landmark ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert M. LongoBy Ed WilkinsonBROOKLYN,N.Y. (CNS) -- Pope Francis has rebranded the Catholic Church and the papacy,and the media have taken notice.Thatwas the message delivered by Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, who delivered thekeynote address May 11 at the Brooklyn Diocese's observance of World CommunicationsDay.Sponsoredby the DeSales Media Group, the event in downtown Brooklyn drew about 250people.FatherRosica, CEO of Canada's Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation and theEnglish-language attache to the Holy See Press Office at the Vatican, waspresented with the Brooklyn Diocese's St. Francis DeSales DistinguishedCommunicator Award by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio."Priorto Pope Francis, when many people on the street were asked: 'What is theCatholic Church all about? What does the pope stand for?' The response wouldoften be, 'Catholics, well they are against abortion, gay marriage and birthcontrol. They are known for the sex abuse crisis that has terribly marred and...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A suspect in a police officer's shooting who was shot and killed in southern Illinois after a search of more than a week managed to evade capture by hiding in a sparsely populated national forest where he had once lived, a county sheriff said Monday....
