When forced abortion opponent and blind attorney Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest in China last week and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, he touched off what some are calling the most significant challenge to U.S.-China relations since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
When a gay activist started bashing the Bible and Christian beliefs at a national high school journalism conference, as many as 100 students walked out in protest.
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A prominent Chicago-based law firm has offered to provide free legal services to the Most Rev. Daniel Jenky, C.S.C. of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, after he was reported to the Internal Revenue Service for encouraging the faithful to remember the policies of the current president regarding religious liberty when voting in the upcoming election.
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Speaking on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, U.S. papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano delivered a rousing speech at the Pontifical College Josephinum in which he called on American Catholics to "lead the entire Church in the world" into renewal.
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According to a new study published by the prestigious
Lancet medical journal, U.S. teens lead the world in drug and alcohol abuse and are more likely than their peers in Europe to meet a violent death.
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For the first time since the Census Bureau began tracking family information in 1940, the percentage of married households has fallen below 50 percent.
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Continuing his series on the Christian school of prayer, Pope Benedict XVI told 20,000 faithful in St. Peter's Square yesterday that if prayer and the Word of God do not nourish our spiritual life, we run the risk being suffocated by the many cares and concerns of daily existence.
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In spite of the fact that ObamaCare and the HHS mandate continue to be among the most unpopular policies in recent history, First Lady Michelle Obama told a crowd in Omaha that "we made history" when passing these new laws.
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All women deserve to hear the good news about authentic femininity and God's plan for their life, even those who live in far-away places or whose schedules are just too busy for weekly meetings. Thanks to the women who visit GracePlace, the popular social network of Women of Grace®, a new way has been developed to make the Women of Grace® Foundational Study available to any woman - anywhere in the world - who has access to a phone and a computer.
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A new analysis from the Center for Military Readiness indicates that repeal of the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy may have resulted in an increase in the number of sexual assaults involving homosexuals in the U.S. armed services.
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