Via Politico comes news that the archdiocese of Washington D.C. has officially affirmed its support of the "Marriage Initiative of 2009," banning gay ...
Marianne Duddy-Burke | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Who will be the kind of leader who would stand up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) concerns like Kennedy did? We lost a loyal friend and a powerful advocate.
Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Novak, aware of that natural weakness in his personality, never tired of seeking a more harmonious sense of being. That, I think, is what made Novak ultimately a good man.
Fred Karger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The Mormon Church has been destroying lives, intimidating people and demonizing an entire class to solidify their base and raise millions and millions of dollars.
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication coul...
AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
LES COMBES, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that his guardian angel was clearly acting "on superior orders" when he let the pontiff fal...
AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
LONDON — The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a "two track" system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
In predominantly Catholic Nicaragua, an all-out ban on abortion, regardless of any potential risk childbirth poses to the mother, is drawing fire from...
Global Post | Jason Berry | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed five bishops from as many countries to investigate the Legionaries of Christ, a religious order founded i...
Vicky Shorr | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
The Church in Brazil is manned by the likes of the Archbishop of Recife, whose latest idea of social activism was to ex-communicate the mother of a nine-year-old rape victim, who got the child an abortion.
Chris Korzen | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Had their disagreements precluded a meeting, the fertile common ground that the pope and the president share on values like economic justice, health care and workers' rights would lie fallow.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing ...
The New York Times | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...
AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has announced the retirement of a Brazilian archbishop who caused a major stir when he declared that those involved i...
AMERICA blog | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Big news from Maine. On the plus side, the campaign to save Maine's marriage law has been launched -- and they've got a kick-ass campaign manager lead...
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — Priest ordinations planned by an ultraconservative group won't be legitimate even though Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommu...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Among my numerous flaws is the fact that I'm not very charitable. Yes, I give money to worthy causes, but I'm stingy with my time. My wife does volunt...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's top envoy for China says the time has come for the Holy See to get tough with Beijing and not compromise over relig...
AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was "My Dear Dusia" and he signed his letters "Br" _ short for brother. She was one of a handful of people by his ...
Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
It was the Catholic Church that stepped forward to successfully challenge anti-miscegenation law. How much longer before the law of the land applies to all its citizens, gay and straight alike?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
Many, perhaps the majority of blacks, can be won to back same sex marriage as a paramount civil rights issue. Because that's what it is. But picketing President Obama is the absolute wrong way to get them to do that.
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Ireland's government announced Tuesday it will summon Roman Catholic orders and demand they contribute more funds to the thousands of p...
Independent | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
By Jonathan Brown | The Independent Father Patrick Desbois has spent the past decade piecing together the horrific story of the Nazis' secret death s...
Alex Leo | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
How can the church take such an unbending stance on abortion and birth control then subject unwanted children to systematic assault?
Guardian | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
The archbishop of Westminster last night sought to defuse a row over comments he made about child sex abuse in Ireland's Catholic institutions....
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics