The number one cause of death in the United States is abortion. Planned Parenthood receives one third of its billion-dollar annual budget from taxpayer funding. Radically proabortion politicians now control the executive and legislative branches […]
Philip Jenkins is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He has written over 20 books since 1983 on topics ranging from American history to moral panics to terrorism to clerical […]
George W. Bush fell into disfavor with the leaders of his denomination, the United Methodist Church (UMC), the moment he began talking about war with Iraq. “We can’t sleep through this rush to war,” said […]
One reliable barometer of Pope Benedict’s effectiveness is the carping of left-wing newspapers, particularly British ones: the more pointed his remarks, the more they tend to caricature him as “bland” and dour. Typical of this […]
The deadliest fighting since World War II has not taken place during a major war like Korea or Vietnam, or in a well-known genocide like Cambodia’s or Darfur’s, but in a conflict that has received […]
Joe Biden, who once colorfully exclaimed, “The next Republican that tells me I’m not religious, I’m going to shove my rosary beads down their throat,” is now one of the most prominent Catholic politicians in […]
Catholics Go for Obama,” read a headline for an item at washingtonpost.com after the presidential election in November. According to exit polls, 54 percent of Catholics voted for Barack Obama. The author of the item, […]
On the evening of August 23, 80-year-old Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, the leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, or World Hindu Council) in Orissa who had spoken out against Hindu conversions to Christianity, was […]
The 12th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops took place at the Vatican October 5-26, reflecting on the theme “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church.” In addition to […]
After Californians voted in November to reverse same-sex marriage, state Attorney General Jerry Brown said the 18,000 or so homosexual marriages that had been performed after May 15, when California’s Supreme Court ruled that restricting […]
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