Scores of California students may be sent home on their first day of school because of a new vaccine law that took effect this year. The new state law took effect July 1. Now, parents can no longer use personal…

KTF News – Thomas Reese, S J Appointed as Chair of Religious Liberty CommissionWatch this video on YouTube Source References Jesuit appointed head of US religious freedom commission

Deaths in the medieval Italian towns of Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno, Accumoli di Rieti, and Pescara del Tronto have climbed to 268 with 387 being treated in hospitals. The devastation has made it difficult for rescuers to conduct…

It turns out that alcohol causes seven forms of cancer. And even people who consume low to moderate amounts are at risk. Fresh analysis of evidence accumulated over a number of years implicates alcohol in breast, colon, liver and other…

“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not…

One and a half million people came to Pope Francis’s farewell mass in Kraków, Poland at the end of World Youth Day. “In a time of increasing skepticism towards authority, no other world leader could draw a crowd like that….

KTF News – Russia Restricts Religious FreedomWatch this video on YouTube Source References Russia’s new ‘big brother law’ has Christians, Muslims and Jews fearing for their religious freedom

Athens is under pressure to introduce a six-day working week as part of the stiff terms for the country’s second bailout. The supervisory “troika,” which involves the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund is insisting…

“Politics is one of the highest forms of love and of charity.” Pope Francis, quoting Pope Paul VI in defending papal involvement in politics. Source Reference Pope Francis insists that ‘greater politics’ is realm of the Church

Germany is changing. In spite of its Nazi past, which has kept right-wing populist movements out on the fringes of German politics, the anti-migrant AfD (Alternative for Germany) may have muscled its way in. Because of discontent with Chancellor Angela…

KTF News – President Obama Designates LGBT National MonumentWatch this video on YouTube Source References Obama designates national gay rights monument

Hillary Clinton claims to be a defender of religious freedom. But her definition of it is limited mostly to worship. And even houses of worship appear to be targets of “compelling government interest” when it comes to abortion and same-sex…