The Supreme Court of Louisiana has ordered a Catholic priest to reveal something said to him in confession, asking him to do something that would result in his automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church. The case revolves around a 12-year-old
(AFP) Fictional boy wizard Harry Potter made his first appearance in seven years on Tuesday, featuring as a nearly 34-year-old with grey hairs in a new short story by author J.K. Rowling. In an article on the “Pottermore” website written
In the wake of recent shootings, including the killings near University of California Santa Barbara this past print, California and New Jersey are considering gun seizure laws modeled on Connecticut’s law allowing judges to order the seizure of guns in
Two weeks ago in a visit to southern Italy, Pope Francis said that members of organized crime are excommunicated. In response, mobsters in Calabria have struck back in an unusual and insulting way. The Italian press and the Catholic news
HOUSTON, Texas–Back in the early 1990’s, two major events put Waco, Texas on the national map. The first was a complete tragedy: a cult leader named David Koresh clashed with the ATF, causing 54 adults and 28 children to die
Richard Martinez, father of Santa Barbara victim Christopher Michaels-Martinez, is launching a nationwide push for gun control and claims its passage will make his “son’s death mean something.” According to The Des Moines Register, Martinez said the heinous crime at
The worst thing, no, the second worst thing about the paedophile and sex abuse scandal that is currently engulfing Westminster is that it isn’t news to most people who have worked in and around Parliament for even a few years.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pakistan’s military attack on Taliban produces little besides chaos Israeli police hold six suspects in the murder of Palestinian teen Israeli airstrikes kill seven Gaza gunmen Pakistan’s military attack on Taliban produces little besides
Pope Francis will meet victims of paedophile priests for the first time on Monday, as a Vatican commission moves to address the problem of clerical sex abuse in developing countries. Six victims from Britain, Germany and Ireland will talk with
An unidentified man was killed Thursday night in San Antonio while waiting to board an Amtrak train to Houston. He was allegedly beaten to death by a large man who witnesses observed stating, “I just like killing someone.” The victim
Navy pilot, combat veteran, and Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine, who sits on the House Armed Services committee, was denied entry to the Health and Human Services facility housing over 1,000 unaccompanied alien children at the Fort Sill military base in
An undercover police officer who ended up addicted to heroin is suing his former force after he was jailed for giving police-issued weapons to his drug dealer. Robert Carroll claims his downward spiral of addiction began after he was encouraged
China’s one-child policy, instituted in 1979, has made it the most gender-imbalanced country in the world, with 117.78 boys for every 100 girls. Since the Chinese culture traditionally favors males, massive numbers of female babies have been aborted. While the
After years of silence, the British establishment has finally acknowledged the ‘national scandal’ of female genital mutilation (or FGM, as it is called by those in the know), which has been practiced on up to 170,000 women and girls in
(Reuters) – A Texas man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to attempting to provide “material support to terrorists” in Somalia by recruiting people to join in fighting, U.S. prosecutors said. Rahatul Ashikim Khan, 23, who faces up to 15 years in
The Sacramento family of the Palestinian boy allegedly killed in revenge for the killing of three Israeli teens by Palestinians is mourning their lost cousin–and staging protests against the Israeli government. Earlier in the week, the Los Angeles-based aunt of one
Hollister, California is gearing up for its annual July 4th motorcycle rally. Set to take place from July 4-6, the town that calls itself the “Birthplace of the American Biker” will play host to more than 100,000 motorcycle enthusiasts from
In a piece published in the Washington Post, former Venezuelan journalist Rafael Osío Cabrices describes his decision to leave the country with his family and become an immigrant in another land. We were proud of the job we were doing
The newspaper of record in Rochester is sorry about the 1,000 cases of black on Asian violence over the last several years. Specifically, the editors are not apologizing for ignoring the racial violence, which they did for years, but for
The chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has called upon the Obama administration to halt any plans to send back unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors who have been flooding across the U.S. border. “This is a very vulnerable population
(Reuters) – Three accused leaders of Peru’s Shining Path were charged in New York on Wednesday with running a drug trafficking ring to fund the insurgent group, federal authorities announced. The three Peruvian citizens face terror, narcotics and weapons charges,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “NOW w/Alex Wagner,” Wagner and her guest Janet Murguia, the president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, reacted to a protest in Murrieta, CA on Tuesday against the housing of illegal immigrants
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 2 (UPI) –Florida Republican congressional candidate Gloreatha “Glo” Scurry-Smith tweeted a picture of one of her campaign signs Sunday that had been subject to racist vandalism. The vandal spray-painted Smith’s face white. Smith, who discovered the sign
California lawmakers are seeking more effective ways to handle and address a “rape culture” that has pervaded the University of California and California State University school systems and are looking for ways to exercise harsher punishments for perpetrators who commit
While many in the mainstream media push the narrative that Cuba’s communist government is somehow more “open” than in the past, the Cuban government is exploiting that good will to violently detain and torture political dissidents. According to one NGO,
