In the wake of the death of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, friends are coming forward to say his young wife, Katherine Russell, radically changed and seemed to have been brainwashed by her extremist husband.
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What some are calling a compromise move, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is proposing a change to its policy banning openly homosexual scouts and troop leaders by keeping the policy in place only for adult leaders and volunteers.
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There's plenty of blame to go around in the case of the West Philadelphia House-of-Horrors abortion clinic, but Pennsylvania's Department of Health deserves the lion's share for refusing to inspect abortion clinics for political reasons.
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Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) were joined by 70 of their House colleagues in demanding that national broadcast news channels ABC, NBC, and CBS stop blacking out coverage of high-profile abortion controversies such as the "House of Horrors" trial in Philadelphia and Planned Parenthood lobbying in support of infanticide.
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A 54 year-old homosexual activist from Connecticut received five years probation from a federal judge for making repeated death threats to the staff of a local pro-family group, a sentence that would have been much tougher if the group had not asked the judge to show him mercy.
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While delivering a homily to lay employees of the Vatican bank yesterday morning, Pope Francis warned that if we are not faithful to our baptismal call, we risk turning the Church into a "babysitter" for sleeping children.
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April 16 marked the second time in six months that members of a high school football team faced felony charges for the rape of a teenage girl - a crime they photographed and then texted to friends. What's behind this spate of heartless crimes that has already led to the death of two young women?
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The daughter of the woman who died at the hands of House-of-Horrors abortionist Kermit Gosnell said the doctor showed no sympathy after her mother's death, saying only that he did nothing wrong.
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Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel was vandalized last weekend, marking the second time in a year that the historic building was targeted.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In the wake of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, very human stories are emerging of horrific injuries and death as well as extraordinary heroism in the face of an unspeakable crime.
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