Jerusalem, Israel, May 25, 2014 / 11:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).– In a declaration delivered at the end of a private meeting, Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I marked a new step […]
When the Irish Government announced in November 2011 that it would close the Embassy to the Vatican, it marked an all-time low in relations between the traditionally staunchly Catholic country and the Holy See. It […]
Many diocesan seminaries will not accept older applicants to the priesthood, and often with good reason. An older man can have greater difficulty in meeting the demands of the priesthood or giving up the freedom or […]
Americans have seen abortion repackaged as a “choice.” They are witnessing an ongoing attempt to redefine marriage to include same-sex arrangements. Now they are being told that physician-assisted suicide is not actually suicide. In Connecticut’s […]
Not a week after President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast that promoting religious freedom is a “key objective of US foreign policy” under his administration, a congressman challenged him to put his money where […]
Editors’ note: The original posting of this article incorrently identified Fr. Loren Allen as “Fr. Warren Allen”. The piece also stated that the suspect, Gary Bullock, was arrested a few hours after the murder. […]
On August 15, 2013, developmental biologist Jeanne Lawrence reported what many had previously considered inconceivable. [1] Her research team successfully silenced the extra chromosome 21 in Down syndrome (DS) stem cells. That is, in laboratory-grown cells, […]
In the last two or three years, at high schools from Florida to Illinois, students have been forsaking quarterbacks and cheerleading captains and electing teenagers with Down syndrome to be homecoming kings and queens. Last […]
Blessed John Paul II is sometimes remembered as a “saint maker” who canonized 482 men and women during his 27-year pontificate. Pope Francis, however, is an even more prodigious “saint maker” who has canonized more […]
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