| Woman testifies about horror of finding kids slain by nanny Posted: 01 Mar 2018 12:55 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan apartment was eerily quiet, unusual for a home with three little kids. All the lights were off, except for the glow of a bathroom light. That's where Marina Krim found her two children — covered in blood, slaughtered by the family's trusted nanny.
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| Vatican magazine hits out at clergy's exploitation of nuns Posted: 01 Mar 2018 10:35 AM PST  A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay. The March edition of "Women Church World," the monthly women's magazine of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, hit newsstands Thursday. Its exposé on the underpaid labor and unappreciated intellect of religious sisters confirmed that the magazine is increasingly becoming the imprint of the Catholic Church's #MeToo movement. "Some of them serve in the homes of bishops or cardinals, others work in the kitchens of church institutions or teach. "Some of them, serving the men of the church, get up in the morning to make breakfast, and go to sleep after dinner is served, the house cleaned and the laundry washed and ironed," reads one of the lead articles. A nun identified only as Sister Marie describes how sisters serve clergy but "are rarely invited to sit at the tables they serve." While such servitude is common knowledge, it is remarkable that an official Vatican publication would dare put such words to paper and publicly denounce how the church systematically exploits its own nuns. Nuns walk past a bike covered in snow in Rome, Italy Credit: REUTERS/Max Rossi But that pluck has begun to define "Women Church World," which launched six years ago as a monthly insert in L'Osservatore Romano and is now a stand-alone magazine distributed for free online and alongside the printed newspaper in Italian, Spanish, French and English. "Until now, no one has had the courage to denounce these things," the magazine's editor, Lucetta Scaraffia, told The Associated Press. "We try to give a voice to those who don't have the courage to say these words" publicly. "Inside the church, women are exploited," she said in a recent interview. While Pope Francis has told Scaraffia he appreciates and reads the magazine, it is by no means beloved within the deeply patriarchal Vatican system. Recent issues have raised eyebrows, including the March 2016 edition on "Women who preach," which appeared to advocate allowing lay women to deliver homilies at Mass. One of the authors had to publish a subsequent clarification saying he didn't mean to suggest a change to existing doctrine or practice. Other recent issues have explored the symbolic power of women's bodies and "rape as torture." Profile | Pope Francis Ms Scaraffia, a Catholic feminist and professor of history at Rome's La Sapienza university, sees the magazine as a necessary tool to push the envelope on issues that matter to half the members of the Catholic Church. The fact that a women's supplement to L'Osservatore Romano is even necessary is indicative of what she's up against. L'Osservatore is the official newspaper of the Vatican, publishing official papal decrees and speeches and maintaining an editorial line that reflects the priorities of the Holy See. The March issue of its women's magazine is dedicated to "Women and Work," and explores many issues that are in some ways correlated to the #MeToo movement, including the gender pay gap, the lack of women in leadership positions, and the "Ni Una Menos" movement to combat feminicide and violence against women, often by spurned lovers. During his recent trip to Peru, Francis denounced feminicide and gender-based crimes that have turned his home continent, Latin America, into the most violent place on Earth for women. He also has frequently called for dignified work - and dignified pay - for all. And in a recent prologue to a book on women's issues, Francis acknowledged that he was concerned that in many cases, women's work in the church "sometimes is more servitude than true service." The March edition of "Women Church World" drives that home, with a lead article "The (nearly) free work of sisters," by French journalist Marie-Lucile Kubacki, the Rome correspondent for the La Vie magazine of the Le Monde group. Ms Kubacki noted that sisters often work for prelates or church institutions without contracts. When one falls sick, she is simply sent back to her congregation which sends another in her place. Nuns at a canonisation ceremony in St. Peter's Square in 2015 Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images Other sisters, meanwhile, show remarkable intellectual gifts and earn advanced degrees, but aren't allowed to put them to use because the collective nature of religious communities often discourages personal advancement, another nun, Sister Paule, told the magazine. "Behind all this is the unfortunate idea that women are worth less than men, and above all that priests are everything in the church while sisters are nothing," Sister Paul said. Sister Marie noted that many nuns from Africa, Asia or Latin America who come to study in Rome hail from poor families, whose extended care is often paid for by their congregations. As a result, they feel they can't complain about their work conditions, she said. "This all creates in them a strong interior rebellion," Sister Marie reported. "These sisters feel indebted, tied down, and so they keep quiet." Ms Scaraffia said she wanted to give these sisters a voice, even though she counts herself among the church's exploited. Neither Ms Scaraffia nor the eight-member editorial staff of Women Church World is paid. The magazine, funded by a grant from the Italian postal service Poste Italiane, pays contributors for their articles, but it is published each month thanks to the free labor of its editorial staff.
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| Loans to Kushner business followed meetings at White House: NYT Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:34 AM PST  Jesse Drucker, business and taxes reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that companies loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner family business after meeting with Kushner at the White House.
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| Gunshot at Georgia school ignites debate on arming teachers Posted: 01 Mar 2018 07:04 AM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — Police say they don't know why a popular teacher allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed.
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| Where Is Dr. Timothy Cunningham? Search Is On for CDC Professional Missing More Than 2 Weeks Posted: 01 Mar 2018 06:45 AM PST  Timothy Cunningham, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was last seen on Feb. 12.
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| Trump says he’s plans to sign executive order outlawing bump stocks Posted: 01 Mar 2018 02:59 AM PST  President Trump told a group of bipartisan lawmakers that White House lawyers are currently drafting an executive order to "write out" the gun device that allow semi-automatic rifles to mimic a machine guns.
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| The Latest: Kushner Cos. got huge loans after WH meetings Posted: 01 Mar 2018 12:10 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's downgraded security clearance (all times local):
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| Walmart To Raise Age Requirement To Buy Firearms And Ammunition Posted: 28 Feb 2018 10:30 PM PST  Walmart has vowed to raise its age requirement to 21 years old for customers looking to purchase firearms or ammunition from their stores. The retail giant decided to change its firearms policy "in light of recent events," Walmart said in a statement to reporters on Wednesday. "We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms and go beyond Federal law by requiring customers to pass a background check before purchasing any firearm," the company's statement read.
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| Teacher barricades himself in class, fires gun; no one hurt Posted: 28 Feb 2018 03:18 PM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — A social studies teacher barricaded himself inside a classroom at a Georgia high school on Wednesday and fired a handgun in what may have been a warning shot, authorities said.
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| No civilians leave Syria's Ghouta; Putin blames rebels Posted: 28 Feb 2018 02:58 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The Russia-ordered brief humanitarian pause was in effect for a second day Wednesday in rebel-held Damascus suburbs but no civilians used the corridor manned by Syrian and Russian forces to leave the enclave. Government forces, meanwhile, tried to push their way into the area, setting off ground battles.
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