“We must prepare for a new age of political audacity for the Holy See,” said Marco Impagliazzo, president of the Rome-based Community of Sant’ Egidio during an interview in 2014. Some believe that Pope Francis is more important politically than…

“Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical, religious or other reasons when we have the means to eradicate…

Will science be able to bring back to life the woolly mammoth? Harvard University geneticist George Church has successfully copied genes from frozen woolly mammoths and amalgamated them with an Asian elephant gene. This is the first time woolly mammoth…

“I’m not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they’re too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt – it is all that battlefield stuff.” Peter Hamill, editor and columnist for the New York Post and…

These may be the worst ever. But according to Hint Fashion Magazine, unisex is in. While that should be no surprise, the latest gender blending fashions are over the top. And top designers, like Vivienne Westwood, a designer of clothes…

“It’s pretty bad, the word in a century… I’d say it shattered the record.” Jeff Anderson, snow surveyor for the US Natural Resources Conservation Service, discussing the dismal snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which threatens water supplies for…

Massive surveillance didn’t just start after 9-11. The U.S. government through the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration started keeping secret records of virtually all Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the terrorist attacks on New York…

“The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.” Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist Source Reference The shadows of diversity in globalization, affects for cultural heritage.

“I’m not a Catholic, but I could be persuaded to become one.” Al Gore, in anticipation of the papal encyclical on the environment. Source Reference SXSW: Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price

As California continues to struggle under a prolonged four-year drought, Governor Brown announced stringent mandatory water regulations in an effort to cut usage by 25 percent. He made the announcement while standing on grass in the Sierra Nevada’s typically covered…

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell when he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four (in 1942), a book about the coming totalitarian society. Source Reference…

Last year he was first on the list of Fortune Magazine’s 50 Greatest World Leaders. This year, in its second published list, he is still there as number four of the “extraordinary men and women who are transforming business, government,…