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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military acted properly on the night of the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, according to leaked testimony from a retired, three-star Army general who served as chief lawyer for Republicans on the House committee investigating the attacks....
By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Obamaadministration's May 13 directive on transgender access to bathrooms "thattreats 'a student's gender identity as the student's sex' is deeply disturbing,"said the chairmen of two U.S. Catholic bishops' committees."The guidance fails toaddress a number of important concerns and contradicts a basic understanding ofhuman formation so well expressed by Pope Francis: that 'the young need to behelped to accept their own body as it was created,'" the two bishops saidin a statement May 16.The statement was issued by BishopRichard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, who is chairman of the U.S. Conferenceof Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and ArchbishopGeorge J. Lucas of Omaha, Nebraska, who chairman of the USCCB's Committee onCatholic Education.The directive, or guidance, was issuedby the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education. Thedepartments said it applies to all public schools and colleges and univ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic StandardBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Supreme Court May 16 sent the Zubikv. Burwell case, which challenges the Affordable Care Act's contraceptiverequirement for employers, back to the lower courts.The justices'unanimous decision, explained in a nine-page unsigned opinion, was based on the information that bothsides submitted a week after oral arguments were heard in the case about howand if contraceptive insurance coverage could be obtained by employees throughtheir insurance companies without directly involving religious employers whoobject to this coverage.The courtmade clear that it is not expressing an opinion on the merits of the cases thatare challenging aspects of the federal government's health legislation and italso was not ruling on the issue of a potential violation of religious freedom.Because ofthe "gravity of the dispute and the substantial clarification andrefinement in the positions of the parties," the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- It's 100,000 laps around Earth and counting for the International Space Station....
VIENNA (AP) -- In a move fraught with risk, the United States and other world powers said Monday they would supply Libya's internationally recognized government with weapons to counter the Islamic State and other militant groups gaining footholds in the chaos-wracked country's lawless regions....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Police in suburban Chicago say Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor was found safe Monday after officers received a report that she never returned from a Sunday bike ride in the area....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military acted properly on the night of the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, according to leaked testimony from a retired, three-star Army general who served as chief lawyer for Republicans on the House committee investigating the attacks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A short-handed Supreme Court dodged but kept alive a legal challenge Monday from faith-based groups over the Obama administration's rules for cost-free access to birth control. It was the latest sign of justices struggling to find a majority for cases taken up before Justice Antonin Scalia's death....
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The notion of a 2-for-1 Clinton presidency is back....
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Peter Turkson has called for action in countries that are seriously affected by the HIV pandemic regarding the progress that has been made to stop the transmission of the HIV virus to children.The words of the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace came in a message addressed to Caritas Internationalis and its global partners, many of whom are faith-based organizations, who are committed to improving diagnosis and care for children who are living with HIV.The message follows a Vatican meeting on Pediatric Treatment that took place in the Vatican in mid May.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: On a positive note, Cardinal Turkson said that based on "the discussions at the meeting that focused on early diagnosis and treatment of children, we expect real progress”.He commended participants at the meeting for their desire to collaborate on improving access to life-saving medicines for children threatened by the HIV virus, and sa...
