In yet another ecumenical meeting, Pope Francis had his first meeting with members of the Jewish religion. During the meeting, he condemned anti-Semitism as incompatible with Christianity and promised to promote collaboration between the Catholic Church and Jewish groups around…

In his scathing dissent from the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling to invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Justice Antonin Scalia said that the majority in essence said that those who oppose same-sex marriage are “enemies of the human…

In a sweeping decision the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as between one man and one woman in U.S. federal law. The court decision and the momentum to enact gay marriage laws…

On July 1, 2013 Croatia will become an official member of the European Union. The EU bent the rules so that Croatia could join even though the Lisbon Treaty has limits that technically prevent it, and even though there are…

In an ecumenical meeting Justin Welby, the primate of the Anglican Church, met with the Pope Francis. Welby said he “felt at home in the Vatican.” The two men were installed in their respective roles within days of each other….

The G8 summit was marked with serious disagreements between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the British Prime Minister David Cameron. The disagreement has to do with the arming of Syrian opposition forces in the civil war there. Mr. Putin…

Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi says he has been “proved correct” that legalizing same-sex marriage would lead to demands to endorse polygamy. Senator Bernardi’s latest comments come as a Greens bill to recognize same-sex marriages is to be debated in…

More than 100,000 people protested over several days nationwide in Brazil to express frustration with heavy-handed police tactics, poor public services like health care, and high costs for sporting events like the World Cup, and a wider unease about inequality,…

The International Criminal Court rejected a request by SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), to investigate Benedict XVI for crimes against humanity over the priestly sex abuse scandal. SNAP is an abuse victims’ advocacy group based in the…

“The goal of both economics and politics,” wrote Pope Francis to British Prime Minister David Cameron, “is to serve humanity, beginning with the poorest and most vulnerable wherever they may be, even in their mothers’ wombs.” The pope was instructing…

“Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in eastern Germany where the Elbe has flooded and burst through a dam.” In the city of Halle, “water levels reached their highest in some 400 years.” In addition, the city…

In Melbourne alone, 29 Catholic Priests are acknowledged as guilty of sexually abusing children. But the Archbishop of Melbourne told Victoria’s child abuse inquiry the church had paid compensation to victims of 59 priests who had worked in the archdiocese….