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Judge allows survey of church property for border wall construction
A U.S. District Court judge in Texas ruled Feb. 6 that the Diocese of Brownsville must let the Trump administration survey land around a historic Catholic chapel in anticipation of building the proposed border wall.
Trump defends rights of faith-based adoption agencies at prayer breakfast
Trump alluded to an American Civil Liberties Union federal lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that challenges a state law that protects child-placing agencies that deny adoption services because of a conflict with the agency's religious beliefs.
Archbishop Gomez calls for ‘new humanism’ amid troubled times
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke during the "Hispanic Innovators of the Faith" lecture Feb. 6, 2019, at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
College seminarians host fun night with arts at St. Charles
“Divine Inspiration: God and the Human Imagination” is set for Friday night, Feb. 8 at St. Charles Seminary, with music by Sarah Sparks, a talk on God's influence on creativity and ending with Night Prayer.
Wounded warriors are HEROs combating ‘epidemic’ of child pornography
After losing both legs in Afghanistan, Justin Gaertner found a new mission as a "human exploitation rescue operative," or HERO, with the Department of Homeland Security, pursuing predators who collect and trade child pornography on the internet.
Theology, history, canon law may figure in lay role in addressing crisis
A panel of academics at a Feb. 6 conference on the clergy sex abuse crisis noted that the current crisis is not the first scandal to confront the church, and that the church has had trouble putting those scandals to rest.
London council committee OKs exclusion zone around abortion clinic
A regulatory committee of Richmond Council voted Feb. 6 to make it a crime to attempt any form of interaction with staff or visitors to a center run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in Twickenham, a suburban area of southwest London.
Mother tells how daughter became victim of sex trafficking, lost her life
Yvonne Ambrose had one of the worst experiences any mother can suffer: Her daughter Desiree, age 16, was found in a garage on Christmas Eve 2016 murdered by a man who beat her, slashed her throat and left her to die, painfully alone, in the Chicago cold.
Spokesman for Central African bishops raises doubts about new peace deal
An official of the Central African Republic bishops' conference has raised doubts about a new government-rebel peace deal and urged the international community to give greater backing to the country's legitimate armed forces.
Prospects for arms race rise with demise of historic nuclear treaty
The Trump administration's decision to withdraw from one of the last major nuclear arms control treaties between the United States and Russia is leading to renewed fears among disarmament advocates of a resurgence in costly spending on the most dangerous weapons ever produced.