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…

“Research has shown that consuming cooked black beans leads to lowered risk and incidence of breast, colon, liver, lung, and prostate cancers.” Scientists haven’t figured out the exact mechanism, but they suspect that it is the phytochemicals that protect the…

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…

The German high court ruled recently that gay people should be permitted to adopt a child that was already adopted by their partner. The court claimed that “successive adoption” as the practice is called, should no longer be banned because…

“The United States and European Union aim to start negotiating a vast Transatlantic free trade pact…” The ambitious agenda would involve half of the world output and a third of all trade. The plan reveals impatience with the deadlocked Doha…