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EDEN, N.C. (AP) -- In defending a law limiting protections for LGBT people, North Carolina's powerful Republican Senate leader recently said that "folks back home" couldn't understand the outcry that's included loud demonstrations, and dozens of arrests, over the law....
Oviedo, Spain, May 12, 2016 / 06:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Those who think Pope Francis' recent apostolic exhortation changed the Church's discipline on Holy Communion for the divorced-and-remarried are reading him wrong, according to the head of the Vatican's doctrinal office.Cardinal Gerhard Müller emphasized in a May 4 speech that the Pope wanted to offer “hope for the family” in Amoris laetitia, through the Church's promotion of “the culture of the family” and the “culture of the bond”, based “first of all in the indissoluble love of a man and a woman open to the transmission and upbringing of life.”“We discover here the great mission and challenge of the Church for the family … the family needs to live within the Church, where it is reminded of the great vocation that it has received, and the love that enlivens and sustains it is commemorated.”The cardinal, who is prefect of the Congrega...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Kevin Durant scored 37 points, Russell Westbrook added 28, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the San Antonio Spurs 113-99 on Thursday night to win the Western Conference semifinal series 4-2....
SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian couple whose three children were killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine two years ago have welcomed a new baby, saying the birth has given them faith that love trumps hate....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The venues are, in the words of organizers, 99 percent ready. The torch is winding its way around the country in a three-month relay ending at the opening ceremony....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama administration directive issued amid a court fight between the federal government and North Carolina....
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Washington D.C., May 12, 2016 / 04:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It's not a social justice issue that tops most Catholic's priorities, but it needs to be, legal experts are saying. The problem? How much money you have – or don't – makes every difference in how you're represented in court.In January, the American Civil Liberties Union sued Louisiana's Orleans Parish public defender’s office for putting clients, some of who were in jail, on a waiting list for legal counsel.The office had to stop adding new clients because the public defenders were overworked and budget cuts to the parish prevented new hires.Lauren Anderson, an attorney with the office who’s worked in Orleans since 2013, was quite candid about the dire situation in her affidavit.“I do not believe I am providing effective representation to the majority of my clients,” she said. “Instead, I feel like a case processor, not an attorney.”“I spend my days pl...
Erbil, Iraq, May 12, 2016 / 05:02 pm (CNA).- Terrorist attacks don’t phase Sherzad Omar Mamsani, even when an attack claimed one of his arms and left shrapnel throughout his legs. There’s a reason he was a target: he is a Kurdish Jew.“This is my calling. How can I run away from it? This is my history. This is my faith. This is not something I do just for a living. It is my life,” Mamsani told CNA .Last year, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government appointed Mamsani as the Jewish representative to the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs.“This position sends a message to the world. In a time of war between barbarism and humanity, all creeds and ethnicities are free and protected in Kurdistan,” he said.“After more than 70 long years of suffering, hatred and exile, we now have the freedom to choose and declare our faith and to live it openly,” Mamsani added. “I am so happy and thankful to God and to the government.”Mam...
