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Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic agency in foster case
On: 6/17/2021, Carol Zimmermann, , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents. Although ...

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Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic agency in foster case
On: 6/17/2021, Carol Zimmermann, , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents. Although ...

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Supreme Court upholds health care law's individual mandate in 7-2 ruling
On: 6/17/2021, Carol Zimmermann, , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a 7-2 decision June 17, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying the states that sued over the law did not have the legal right to do so. In the case, California v. Texas, the plaintiffs -- 18 ...

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Seen and unseen: The role of faith, reason in the search for alien life
On: 6/17/2021, Junno Arocho Esteves, , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the expected release this month of the U.S. Department of Defense's report on unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAPs, the question of intelligent life beyond Earth's solar system is back in the limelight. The long-sought ...

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Faith leaders to meet at Vatican in October to discuss climate change
On: 6/17/2021, Cindy Wooden, , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- On the feast of St. Francis, Oct. 4, leaders of world religions or their representatives will meet at the Vatican and in Rome to draft a statement to government leaders who will gather in Scotland in November for COP26, the U.N. ...

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Meeting opens with debate over time allotted to discuss Communion proposal
On: 6/16/2021, , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The first day of the U.S. bishops' June 16-18 spring assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, began with discussion of how to proceed with a major topic the bishops will be taking up: the drafting of a formal ...

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Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic agency in foster case

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a 7-2 decision June 17, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying the states that sued over the law did not have the legal right to do so. In the case, California v. Texas, the plaintiffs -- 18 Republican states and two individuals -- argued that the law's individual mandate requiring nearly all Americans to have insurance was unconstitutional.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the expected release this month of the U.S. Department of Defense's report on unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAPs, the question of intelligent life beyond Earth's solar system is back in the limelight.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- On the feast of St. Francis, Oct. 4, leaders of world religions or their representatives will meet at the Vatican and in Rome to draft a statement to government leaders who will gather in Scotland in November for COP26, the U.N. climate summit.

Bishop says norms were never intent of potential document on Eucharist

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Creating national norms was never the intent behind a proposal to write a new statement on the Eucharist, said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The first day of the U.S. bishops' June 16-18 spring assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, began with discussion of how to proceed with a major topic the bishops will be taking up: the drafting of a formal statement on the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church."