According to a decree issued today, which is the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican II, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the Church will grant the faithful a Plenary Indulgence for the Year of Faith which will be valid from the opening of the Year on October 11 until its end on November 24, 2013.
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A 51 year-old pro-abortion extremist has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for threatening Father Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, and Princeton University professor Robert George.
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The ink has yet to dry on a controversial new California law that prohibits conversion therapy for minors with same-sex attraction and several lawsuits are already in the works.
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A new government report reveals that U.S. births fell in 2011 for the fourth straight year, although the decline was just one percent, less than the two to three percent drop seen in recent years.
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The war on women went further than usual this week when an outrageous e-card that instructed women to "vote like your lady parts depend on it" caused so much outrage it had to be pulled from President Barack Obama's official Tumblr blog.
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Five registered sex offenders in Simi Valley, California are suing the city over a law that prohibits them from welcoming children into their homes on Halloween night.
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On the eve of the upcoming Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI will declare St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. John of Avila as Doctors of the Church.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In the same week that a major Democratic pollster called the mainstream media "the enemy of the American people" for its polling antics, news has surfaced of a pollster who admitted under oath to skewing polls in order to make his candidate look better. Is it any wonder that a majority of Americans now say they don't believe the pro-Obama polls?
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The fight over President Obama's health care law may be coming back to the Supreme Court as the Justices suggest they may be interested in revisiting a case that will raise many of the same challenges that came before the Court this past spring.
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Oral arguments were presented in a Detroit courtroom last week in a motion to stop the implementation of the controversial birth control mandate, while a judge in Missouri dismissed a similar suit on grounds that it did not substantially burden a Catholic businessman's right to the free exercise of his religion.
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