The Cinemax series, The Knick, in under fire from American Catholics who featuring a nun performing an abortion on an episode that appeared on one of the holiest days of the year - the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.
Archbishop Amel Shimoun NonaThe Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Amel Shimoun Nona, has issued a chilling warning to the West that Christians in the Europe and U.S. can expect the same heartless persecution they experienced at the hands of Islamic jihadists because they don't believe all men are equal.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSEven while racial tensions are soaring in Ferguson, Missouri, the healing power of forgiveness changed the lives of two men - black and white - just 400 miles away.
In what police are calling the most cold-hearted case yet, a 34 year-old Brooklyn woman was punched in the face and knocked unconscious while walking down the street with her mother.
Pope Francis' five-day foray into South Korea included a Mass attended by nearly 800,000, saw the baptism of a father of a victim of the Seoul ferry disaster, and gave a powerful silent message to the world about the horrors of abortion.
JA asks: "Is Jane Reehorst's Guided Meditations for Children, and Sydney Ann Merritt's books by the same title, recommending forms of New Age meditation?"
Gammy, born to a Thai surrogate and abandoned by parentsThe recent scandal of an Australian couple who abandoned a baby with Down Syndrome born to a surrogate mother in Thailand has caused the Thai government to crackdown on the industry, leaving several couples stranded in the country who are now unable to leave with their surrogate-born babies.
