Pope Benedict XVI will live in a Vatican convent for the rest of his life after a brief period at the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. By doing so, he will be protected from prosecution in connection with sexual…

A week before Cardinal Timothy Dolan was to fly to Rome for the papal conclave lawyers grilled him for hours behind closed doors about child sex-abuse by priests in his former diocese of Milwaukee. The lawyers represent hundreds of victims…

Italian media reported that Pope Benedict XVI resigned after a “disturbing” confidential report of yet another Vatican scandal landed on his desk. Benedict had commissioned three cardinals (all over 80 years of age) to verify allegations exposed in the so-called…

By Pastor Hal Mayer Neither religious liberty nor toleration were features of the Virginia Colony in 1688. From the beginning, the colony believed they could only control its members by “religion and law”. They exercised despotism in both.”1 Strong religious…

By Hal Mayer “The idea of flying planes into skyscrapers didn’t originate with al-Qaeda,” reported the Atlantic Monthly (May, 2004). World War II was going badly for the Germans. Hitler was getting desperate, and ordered his engineers to develop “Wunderwaffen”…