A Niagara Falls man with a long criminal record has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting to extorting $90,000 from a Catholic priest after threatening to falsely accuse him of committing sexual abuse.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is causing outrage by his decision to ban all clergy from the upcoming commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
For Reflection: What "fruit" have some of my "dying" moments brought forth? To what extent did I see transformation in my life or in the life of others because of it? How does this give me the strength to persevere now and in the future?
After several days of harsh criticism about a comment he made during his China visit about not "second-guessing" that country's brutal one-child policy, the office of Vice President Joe Biden has issued a "clarification" with the hopes of stemming the mounting backlash.
A serial killer who terrorized New York City in the late 70's says he has no interest in being paroled because he is "already a free man" in Jesus Christ.
If you watch the evening news, you surely caught wind of the story of a 17 year old high school student who evidently planned to kill 32 people at Freedom High School, which is located right here in the Tampa Bay Area, where our offices are located. Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor said that authorities found pipe bomb-making materials and a manifesto containing the student's minute-by-minute plan for the massacre, in which he detailed each murder he intended to commit.
Needless to say, parents, teachers, and students in Tampa and around the country were shocked and worried. If that weren't enough, just days later, a teacher from the same high school was accused of having sex with a 16 year old student at the school.
Both of these stories are very disturbing. I believe that we are only seeing the tip of the iceburg and that as economic and social conditions worsen, we will be the unfortunate witnesses of these societal ills which are rooted in the loss of respect for the human person and human sexuality, the degeneration of marriage and family life, and a general loss of morality. These are the plagues of our time.
A decision by the rector of S.S. Simon and Jude Cathedral in the Diocese of Phoenix to restrict altar servers to boys in order to encourage vocations is drawing flak from the usual dissenting groups within the Church and the print publications that give them way too much ink.
Even though the state of Florida's constitution outlaws same-sex marriage, school officials at Mount Dora High School stripped a former "Teacher of the Year" recipient for defending traditional marriage on his personal Facebook page.
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