The scientific world is abuzz this week over a recent announcement from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that they believe they found a way to "switch off" the extra chromosome that causes Down's Syndrome.
World Youth Day 2013 officially kicks off in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro on July 23, beginning with Pope Francis' arrival and ending with an outdoor Mass that some say could draw as many as three million people.
Top-ranked Polish tennis star, Agnieszka Radwanska, who frequently speaks of her Catholic faith, has lost the endorsement of a key Polish youth group after she posed nude in ESPN's Body Issue.
The latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine is causing outrage across the nation for featuring a hip-looking Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, on its cover. At least two major retailers are refusing to sell the issue.
JA writes: "I am wondering what 'send energy' is? I recently offered to pray for a friend and she requested that I 'send positive energy.' What does that mean? If this is new age lingo, what commandment is it breaking?"
The nation's premier dissident "Catholic" newspaper, the National Catholic Reporter, is demanding that Cardinal Timothy Dolan address the "hot heads" at EWTN's National Catholic Register for promulgating a petition to strip the errant Catholic Health Association of its name.
The scientific world is abuzz this week over a recent announcement from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that they believe they found a way to "switch off" the extra chromosome that causes Down's Syndrome.
