Jesuit-trained Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Cardinal Pell, now Archbishop of Sydney, was the first senior Roman Catholic prelate to take the child sex abuse scandal seriously. But victims and others say that is factually wrong and misleading….

In line with his papal predecessors, Pope Francis criticized the global financial system and called for it to change saying that the rich, must help the poor. The Pope said the way the current financial system works needs change because…

The Anglican Church in Australia is accused of not taking disciplinary action against three pedophile priests, even though there had been several reports of child abuse. All three priests were allowed to continue as priests, one of them until June…

Physical activity, particularly walking, “can substantially reduce a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer,” say two recently published scientific studies. Accumulating scientific evidence has shown that exercise reduces risk for many types of cancer, but the mechanism involved has not…

President Obama is moving to shut down the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See and move it to the larger American Embassy in Italy. While the U.S. claims that this is a security measure in light of the Benghazi attack…

Typhoon Haiyan, classed as a super-typhoon killed more than 5,200 people in its path across the Philippines.  The category five equivalent storm with one-minute sustained winds of 196 miles per hour (315k/hr.) was the strongest cyclone to make landfall on…

The Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft, has vetoed a motion from his diocesan synod recommending recognition of same-sex marriage by more that two-thirds of its members. The motion and veto comes at a time when the parliament of the…

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49.2% of Americans received some form of government benefits during the last three months of 2011. That’s 151,014,000 Americans out of a total population of 306,804,000. This figure includes Social Security, food stamps, Medicare,…

The alarming decline of the honey bee population in the European Union over the last decade and a half has prompted the European Commission to ban the use of some pesticides known as neonicotinoids for two years because they appear…

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisted that government authorities have not broken the law in working with the US NSA spy network. Australia is one of the “five eyes” that collaborate and share information with each other. The revelations of…

The Victorian state government’s report on clergy child sex abuse recommends sweeping changes to laws which the Catholic Church used to shelter itself and accused church leaders of trivializing the problem as a ‘‘short-term embarrassment”. Inquiry Chairwoman Georgie Crozier introduced…

Hawaii and Illinois have joined the growing list of states in the United States that now legally approve same-sex marriage. The dramatic shift in such a short period of time is not normally seen in other social issues. Sixteen states…