As the Ebola outbreak continues to spread through West Africa, now claiming the life of a nun and a priest along with 1,000 others, Catholics in hard-hit areas are being asked to change their worship habits in a desperate attempt to check the deadly progress of the disease.
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At the request of the chairman of the Committee of International Justice and Peace, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking the people in all U.S. dioceses to pray for peace in Iraq on Sunday, August 17.
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Archbishop Silvani Tomasi
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, is signaling approval for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq aimed at checking the encroachment of the brutal Islamic State in Iraq and to protect targeted ethnic minorities.
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Officials at the Fremont Unified School District has district have agreed to shelve the use of a controversial sex ed textbook that outraged parents for its graphic depiction of activities such as the use of sex toys, masturbation, and sexual bondage.
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Even as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) proceeds with its annual assembly this week during which they will honor a dissenting nun, the Pew Center Research Center is reporting that the number of nuns in the U.S. is continuing its steep decline.
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The fate of a pair of twin babies conceived via IVF and born last week - to the wrong mother - is now held in the hands of an Italian judge.
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Even before Americans heard their president speak last night, more than 70 bundles of food and water had been air-dropped to a group of 40,000 refugees stranded atop Mount Sinjar near Mosul, Iraq while targeted airstrikes reportedly began this morning.
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More than 1,000 parents in the Fremont School District in California are threatening to sue over a ninth-grade "heal" textbook containing graphic sexual images and references practices such as the use of vibrators and sado-masochism.
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The Amish people, supported by Catholics and Christians of all denominations, are banding together in protest of a rash of reality show programming that features a bigoted misrepresentation of their religion.
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Veteran Supreme Court reporter Richard Wolf says there's an Achilles heel in recent federal appeals court decisions in favor of same-sex marriage - most were not unanimous and the dissenting judges waged excellent arguments that will most certainly be considered when these cases reach the nation's highest court.
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The fate of a pair of twin babies conceived via IVF and born last week - to the wrong mother - is now held in the hands of an Italian judge.
Veteran Supreme Court reporter Richard Wolf says there's an Achilles heel in recent federal appeals court decisions in favor of same-sex marriage - most were not unanimous and the dissenting judges waged excellent arguments that will most certainly be considered when these cases reach the nation's highest court.
