Pending a final decision by the House of Lords, the UK is about to approve a procedure to produce “three parent” children via IVF (in vitro fertilization), but scientists aren't waiting for the ink to dry on the new law and are already publishing ads looking for healthy young women who are willing to sell their eggs to science for the equivalent of $700.
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Pope Francis offered Mass yesterday morning for the repose of the souls of the 21 Coptic Christians who were martyred for their faith in Libya by IS militants.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSYes, it’s disappointing to note the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey this past weekend, but the bottom line remains the same – people may be lured into cheap (and in this case, degrading) imitations of love, but they’re still looking for the real thing.
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In a move that is certain to bring even more heartache to millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., a federal judge halted President Obama’s deportation amnesty program just a day before it was to begin, ruling that the president overstepped his authority in granting them amnesty.
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A Jewish journalist, walking around Paris in traditional garb, captured shocking evidence that there is a definite anti-Semitic dark side to the famous “City of Lights”.
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on the death penalty in that state, provoking a new debate on the subject of capital punishment.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi responded with swift and deadly force against IS militants in Libya after the release of a gruesome video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christian prisoners.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage, 11 lawmakers have re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act which will protect states from any efforts by the federal government to impose a definition of marriage that is not supported by democratically-elected state legislatures.
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The fifth annual “Index of Family Belonging and Rejection”, which tracks the number of 15 to 17 year-olds who grow up with married biological parents, has found record numbers of teens living in broken families.
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In a bold message posted on the Archdiocesan
Facebook page, Cincinnati’s Archbishop Dennis Schnurr condemns the controversial Fifty Shades of Grey movie, calling it a “direct assault on Christian marriage.”
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Pending a final decision by the House of Lords, the UK is about to approve a procedure to produce “three parent” children via IVF (in vitro fertilization), but scientists aren't waiting for the ink to dry on the new law and are already publishing ads looking for healthy young women who are willing to sell their eggs to science for the equivalent of $700.
