More than 84% of Catholics and 57 percent of Non-Catholics in the United States have a favorable view of the new pope, says a Pew Research poll, which is greater than for a U.S. president. Most politicians and popes have…

In a flagrant attack of freedom, a new European Union report demands that Brussels control national media through supervisors with draconian powers to enforce fines or sack journalists. After a European study on freedom and pluralism of Europe’s media, a…

President Obama has claimed that the president of the United States has the authority to kill U.S. citizens without trial or due process if it thinks that they are an imminent danger to United States national security. The president stonewalled…

The Catholic Church says people under pressure to work extra hours are stressing their families and that Sunday should be used as a day of rest and prayer. And they want governments and communities to support families financially so that…

One nation after another these days seems to be headed toward legalizing gay marriage. Now it is Uruguay. Its Senate voted to legalize homosexual marriage by approving a law governing marriage which includes homosexuals. A similar version has already been…

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina filed a bill to allow the state to declare an official religion. Such a law would be a violation of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Motivation for the law is to nullify federal…

The number of poor Americans is at its highest level since the 1960s. More people are on welfare than in the last five decades. At the same time, America is experiencing austerity, otherwise known as sequestration to address the national…

The largest pediatricians group in the USA has updated its policy statement to say “civil marriage for same-sex couple – as well as full adoption and foster care rights… regardless of sexual orientation – is the best way to ensure…

Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, attended the papal installation Mass of Pope Francis I. No Greek Orthodox patriarch has attended a papal installation Mass for almost 1000 years, since 1054 when the split between east and west occurred….

The Catholic Church has reached a settlement in the child sex-abuse case in Los Angeles of approximately $10 million, not including the costs of therapy, attorney’s fees and other costs. This is in addition to the $2.5 billion that the…

At his installation Mass in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis called on world leaders to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest. Speaking in terms of peace, the pope said that exercising “love and tenderness would not allow ‘omens…

The Jewish Reconstructionist movement recently elected a gay man to lead the national association at its meeting in New Orleans. Rabbi Jason Klein, from Maryland has become the first openly gay man to lead the rabbinic association. Though Reconstructionist (the…