According to Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, the papal conclave to elect the new pope will begin on Tuesday afternoon. A “pro eligendo Romano Pontifice” Mass will be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday morning, after which the cardinals
The approaching election of a new pope and the coming celebrations of special Holy Days in the Christian and Jewish faiths raise curiosity about the level of importance Americans place upon their faith at a time when the pull to
Although no date has yet been set for the papal conclave, during which the new pope will be elected, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi says that, through the speeches given by the cardinals during the Congregation sessions, “the profile for
Three House Republicans introduced a bill on Tuesday that protects religious nonprofits and business owners from the HHS mandate, a provision in ObamaCare that requires them to provide free contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients in their employee insurance plans. The Health
The New Haven Register is calling upon Connecticut State Rep. Ernest Hewett (D-New London) to resign from the legislature following suggestions from other lawmakers that he has a history of inappropriate behavior toward women. Hewett was stripped of his post
An editorial in the Hartford Courant last Wednesday states that Connecticut “lawmakers, the judiciary and law enforcement” are engaging in unusually heightened secrecy with regard to details of the tragic Sandy Hook shootings on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Connecticut. The
The head of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at DePaul University is facing expulsion after he released the names of vandals who destroyed a pro-life flag display. Kristopher Del Campo, the chairman of the conservative student organization, has been sanctioned
Over the past two weeks, conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has been advancing a theory about why President Obama’s approval ratings remain above average, despite the fact that most Americans say they are dissatisfied with the direction the country is
The Deputy Speaker of the Connecticut State House was stripped of his title this week after he made an allegedly lewd remark during an exchange with a 17 year-old intern from the Connecticut Science Center. An audiotape of the incident,
Led by Reps. Diane Black (R-TN) and Pete Olson (R-TX) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), 72 members of Congress are calling upon the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the amount of taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives and how the
With less than two days before the March 1st sequestration deadline, Senate Republicans are drafting a bill that would cancel the $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts and instead cede authority to President Obama to make the same level of
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland is stepping down as an archbishop, effective immediately, according to the Scottish Catholic news office. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the United Kingdom’s most senior Roman Catholic, is resigning following reports of allegations
C. Everett Koop, who served as Surgeon General from 1981 to 1989 primarily under President Ronald Reagan, died at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on Monday at the age of 96. A pediatric surgeon, Koop was perhaps best known
The National Journal‘s rankings of the most liberal U.S. representatives reveals that Connecticut’s Sen. Richard Blumenthal is the most liberal Senator, while Connecticut’s all-Democrat congressional delegation is the fourth most liberal in the country. Blumenthal tied with Sen. Tom Udall
Two Italian publications, La Repubblica and Panorama, have reported that a confidential report given to Pope Benedict, part of which refers to a network of homosexual clerics working within the Vatican, led to the pontiff’s decision to resign the papacy.
This past week, President Obama warned Americans that, if the sequester occurs, hundreds of thousands of children will lose access to Project Head Start. A new study, however, published by the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Stating that neither the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission he created, nor the Connecticut legislature’s bipartisan committee has moved fast enough on measures to curb gun violence, Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) took matters into his own hands by unveiling his own
During the 2012 election campaign, Democrats denied that ObamaCare made $716 billion in cuts to Medicare in order to provide funding toward $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. In an announcement on Friday, however, the
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on February 14th, The White House’s top Obamacare regulator found himself dodging bullets from an unexpected source: the very Democrats who passed President Obama’s signature healthcare law. During this little-publicized hearing, Democrats grilled Gary Cohen,
Since the 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, which left 33 people dead, gun-rights advocates have made the right to carry concealed weapons on public college and university campuses a major issue, most recently in Colorado. While guns remain banned
Following the Februrary 15th deadline for states to notify the federal government of their decision regarding who will run the new ObamaCare insurance exchanges, more than half of the states have decided to leave the exchanges to the federal government.
On Thursday, Pope Benedict met with parish priests and clergy of the Diocese of Rome. After being greeted with prolonged applause in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, the pope delivered an unscripted 46-minute “chat,” as he called it,
A Pennsylvania program that empowers women to choose life over abortion has achieved a seven percent drop in the number of resident abortions in the state over the last 17 years. Real Alternatives, a charitable nonprofit organization that is funded
An Obama administration initiative that claims to encourage public-private partnerships to help the poor is having problems getting private donors to get onboard. One of the reasons for the lack of private contributions is that the Social Innovation Fund (SIF)
By a vote of 354-72, the House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to clarify that houses of worship are “eligible for certain disaster relief and emergency assistance on terms equal to other eligible private nonprofit facilities, and for other purposes.”
