A new controversy is brewing over an historic move by the organizers of the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City who announced that, for the first time in the history of the Catholic event, they will allow a homosexual group to march under its own banner in next year's parade.
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As the spread of the ebola virus reaches crisis proportions is west Africa, the Catholic Church is doing all that it can to check its spread, including the hard-hit country of Sierra Leone.
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A Dutch woman in her 80's was killed by lethal injection in the Netherlands simply because she did not want to live in a nursing home.
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During a recent interview published in
L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) revealed the Pope's plans to expand the role of women in the Church and said "we are not women gobblers."
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During a Mass celebrated on Tuesday at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis emphasized that what makes a Christian a Christian is the Spirit of Christ, not academic degrees.
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Reacting to the murder of a second American journalist by Islamic State (IS) terrorists yesterday, President Barack Obama said the U.S. would not be intimidated by their brutal behavior and is instead planning to build a coalition that will "degrade and destroy" the group.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Catholic family in upstate New York has been forced to give up their wedding business for refusing to "marry" two lesbians, a situation that is becoming all too common in America where Christians are now routinely forced out of business by militant homosexuals who are intent on bullying the population into accepting their practices regardless of religious belief.
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Three Christian churches in Columbus, Indiana were defaced with graffiti containing specific verses from the Qur'an that name non-Muslims as "infidels".
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At the end of a Mass celebrated to mark the opening of a new academic year at the Catholic University of America, Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl delivered a powerful condemnation of the horrendous persecution of Christians taking place in the world today and the worldwide silence that is accompanying it.
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The media is in the midst of a mad scramble to avoid reporting the truth about a new and highly prestigious scientific study which found that women who use birth control pills are twice as likely as non-users to develop cancer.
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