When Edward Snowden leaked the fact that the U.S. government had been spying on U.S. citizens, they justified it in the name of fighting terrorism. Though Americans are deeply divided over the issue, the Germans and other Europeans are very…

“Two weeks after Pope Francis was elected, Magdi Allam, a prominent Italian commentator who converted from Islam to Catholicism in 2008 announced he would leave the Church.” Allam who was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI explained the reasons he is…

Pope Francis met with the Enrico Letta, the new Prime Minister of the Italian Republic to discuss the social situation and jobs for youth in Italy. In a statement, the Vatican said the two men discussed the active contribution of…

Wouldn’t you know it, another scandal has rocked the Vatican Bank known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) at the very time when the Vatican is trying to fix its image and give the impression that it doesn’t…

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,…