While preaching about St. Paul at morning Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis prayed that the Holy Spirit would give Catholics the kind of apostolic zeal that makes them unafraid to "be annoying" as Paul was during his time.
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by Marianna Trzeciak
Like Christina Applegate and Ann Jillian, Angelina Jolie has brought the decision for a preventative double mastectomy to the fore. Before I married my husband, I told him that I might make their very same decision someday. However, three children and 20 years later, I still have my breasts.
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In a shocking example of what can happen when abortion-causing drugs fall into the wrong hands, a 28 year-old Tampa man is facing first-degree murder charges after tricking his pregnant girl friend into taking the abortion-inducing drug Cytotec, causing her to lose their child.
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The state of Vermont has become the third U.S. state to allow physicians to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who wish to kill themselves.
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Scientists announced this week that they have successfully produced embryonic stem cells by transferring the DNA of human skin cells into unfertilized human eggs to produce embryos, a technique the Church considers to be an abuse of human life.
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The number of sexual assaults on women that occur in the military every year is high but those numbers are easily trumped by the rate of male-on-male assault in the military.
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The Internal Revenue Service scandal regarding the harassment of tea party groups who sought tax exempt status appears to be exploding as groups from Billy Graham's apostolate to the National Organization for Marriage have come forward to say they were targeted. Meanwhile, the president's half-brother received special treatment.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced that the second annual Fortnight for Freedom will take place from June 21 to July 4, and will consist of national and local efforts to educate Americans on challenges to religious liberty both at home and abroad.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Call it a coincidence that the murder conviction of House-of-Horrors abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell occurred in the middle of the Obama Administration's National Women's Health Week, but this case is finally shining a light on the dangers inherent in the nation's abortion industry - which is still in denial as it erroneously calls the Gosnell case an "aberration."
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E asks: "Is Guy Finley a New Age Author?"
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