No good deed goes unpunished, especially when it comes to smashing liberal shibboleths. Anna Duggar, star of the reality show 19 Kids and Counting, posted a pro-life Twitter message highlighting the importance of black lives, for which she has received an avalanche of criticism.
After his weekly Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis paused to reflect on what he called the “shameful plague” of human trafficking, encouraging greater efforts to eradicate this form of modern slavery. February 8 marks the Catholic feast day of
There are probably some friends of Israel who oppose Netanyahu’s speech out of a sincere concern that he might alienate the Obama administration. Some of those calling upon him to cancel, like Herzog, have personal political gain in mind. And some, like Rabbi Jacobs and the Democrats in Congress, seem more worried about the political embarrassment to President Barack Obama that might result from Netanyahu exposing the failure–and danger–of Obama’s Iran policy.
White House aides are still trying to explain President Obama’s controversial prayer breakfast speech after he reminded Christians that they “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.”
In an address before prefects of a number of Italian cities Saturday, Pope Francis chose to dwell on the topic of immigration, and reaffirmed the need to follow an orderly procedure when dealing with immigrants, in accord with the dictates of the law.
House Speaker John Boehner has announced that Pope Francis will address the United States Congress.
New Jersey high school senior Samantha Jones has won a court challenge to keep “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, defeating an effort by the American Humanist Association to remove the language from the pledge.
Reykjavík, Iceland, the site of the historic 1986 summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, will soon be getting its own pagan temple.
The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and head of the international aid organization Samaritan’s Purse, is slamming President Obama for remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. The president equated the evils that ISIS is carrying out with Christian violence of ages past.
The Latin Times calls newly declared Catholic martyr Oscar Arnulfo Romero a “Marxist Martyr” because of supposed ties to a Marxist-inspired movement called liberation theology that was popular in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s.
Alice Cooper, “Godfather of Shock Rock,” revealed this week that he is a substitute Bible teacher in his spare time.
After last Wednesday’s smackdown on absentee fathers, this week, Pope Francis weighed the positive qualities of good fathers, even their willingness to punish their children when needed.
Columnist George Will argued that President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast indicate the president “seems much more squeamish about saying that this [Islamic terror] is a manifestation of Islam than he is about saying there have been deplorable
Four men beat French street artist Combo after he refused to remove his artwork that called for the peaceful coexistence of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
In his homily at Mass this morning, Pope Francis said that the Church has to keep going back to the heart of its mission of evangelizing and comforting those who suffer, or it runs the risk of becoming just a philanthropic organization or an NGO.
What sheer, blind foolishness. What dangerous idiocy. It’s terrifying to think our national defense is headed up by someone so willfully blind and shallow, someone whose opinion of his own nation and its history is so bleak and slanted. He really can’t see anything beyond the unyielding borders of his ideology.
Two weeks ago at a Sunday Mass, Pope Francis recognized a delegation of Slovaks in the crowd and encouraged their efforts in a national referendum banning same-sex adoption. Just this week, at his weekly audience, Francis did it again.
President Barack Obama sparked outrage among American Christians on Thursday when he decided to use the National Prayer Breakfast as a forum to lecture Christians not to get on their “high horse” in the wake of the burning of a caged live Jordanian pilot by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists.
An eighth-grade boy who spent 15 minutes underwater after falling through ice and was “dead” for 45 minutes, resuscitated after his mother began praying out loud in his hospital room. Three 14-year-olds fell through the ice of Lake Ste. Louise,
President Barack Obama offered the nation a lesson in moral relativism at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, when he admonished Americans not to “get on our high horse” about radical Islam because “people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” including here in the United States. Obama’s statement was both immoral and insensitive, and appeared to excuse the grotesque atrocities carried out by radical Islam, as well as his own passivity in responding.
Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has sent a message to Pope Francis, requesting his intervention in preventing a blackout of the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
Two high-ranking Vatican officials who were slated to address the national assembly of India’s Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCBI) in Bangalore this week have been denied visas by the Indian government.
Sudan’s foreign minister, a hardcore Islamist with a long history of orchestrating mass atrocities and other crimes against humanity, has been invited to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC on Thursday, February 4.
As fighting intensifies in the Ukraine, Pope Francis took advantage of his world pulpit to plead for a ceasefire and a return to dialogue.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) announced Monday that the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery must pay a lesbian couple up to $150,000 for refusing to sell them a wedding cake.
