
Anyone who doubts the presence of Satan in the world (and there are billions of these people) needs to read
this blog by Father Dwight Longenecker.
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The 14 year-old son of a woman undergoing cancer treatments sent his mom a most unexpected love note when he carved "Hi Mom - God Bless U" into the snow atop the parking garage of the hospital where she was staying. The image has now gone viral.
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A reckless ruling by a federal judge in Louisville, Kentucky this week forcing the state to recognize same-sex marriages conducted in other states not only overrides the will of the people in that state but could open the door to polygamous marriages contracted in other countries.
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The latest report on the health of the U.S. family found that marriage "held its own" in the last year, but too few American children are being raised in intact families.
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A so-called "permanent birth control" device in the form of two metal coils is continuing to maim women while pre-emption laws are protecting the manufacturer from all lawsuits.
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The appalling treatment of Christians around the world was the topic of a profoundly disturbing congressional hearing held on Capitol Hill yesterday.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new report by the U.S. Department of Education found that students who attended a Catholic high school were almost twice as likely as their public school peers to graduate college.
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Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is reaping praise from across the country for a hard-hitting
column published in his diocesan newspaper in which he calls the president's advocacy of abortion "shameful" and says those who voted for him "bear the responsibility for a step deeper into the culture of death."
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A special invitation to engaged couples to spend Valentine's Day at an audience with Pope Francis has garnered such a tremendous response that the event has been moved out of the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall and into St. Peter's Square.
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Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations (UN) challenged the UN on its notion that women's equality is dependent upon the negation of their procreative capacities and said women should not have to abandon what is essential to them in order to be treated equally in society.
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