The diocese pointed out that homosexual tendencies do not bar a person from receiving Communion, but rather it is the active practice of homosexuality that presents the problem. The Dutch Catholic priest who withheld Communion last week from his town’s openly homosexual Carnival “prince” was faced at Mass this Sunday with a protest from homosexual... Continue Reading

“Once Planned Parenthood is stripped of its tax funding, we will see their abortion clinics close down like a row of falling dominoes.” New research shows the number of abortion facilities in America continues to decline, reports Operation Rescue. That trend, says the pro-life group, is evident in data collected in the past two months... Continue Reading

The Archdiocese of Washington’s decision to drop its foster care program is the first casualty of the District of Columbia’s pending same-sex marriage law that will obligate all outside contractors dealing with the city to recognize gay couples. Its decision, posted late Tuesday on the archdiocese’s Web site, announced that the archdiocese had ended its... Continue Reading

Young adults’ beliefs about life after death and the existence of heaven, hell and miracles closely resemble the beliefs of older people today. By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public... Continue Reading

“,,,the obvious point (is) that parents who object to the homosexuality curriculum will be ignored, and that the schools educate your children in their ideology whether you like it or not.” Public school children in Hamilton, Ontario will not be permitted to withdraw from classes that promote homosexuality, according to the Hamilton Mountain News. At... Continue Reading

The most influential conservative grassroots leaders nationwide signed the Mount Vernon statement recommitting their movement to constitutional conservatism. “This is something that all conservatives — those that are concerned about national security, those that are concerned about economic opportunity, those that are concerned about religious liberty and personal responsibility — there’ something here for everyone... Continue Reading

…in practice, the Harvard faculty cannot cope with religion. It cannot agree on who should teach it, how it should be taught, and how much value to give it compared with economics, biology, literature, and all the other subjects considered vital to an undergraduate education. It doesn’t take a degree from Harvard to see that... Continue Reading

The Islamic Conference, with more than 50 member-states, is the world’s second-largest intergovernmental body after the U.N. President Obama on Saturday named White House lawyer Rashad Hussain a special envoy to the Muslim world. The president announced the appointment during a video address to the seventh U.S.-Islamic World Forum meeting in Doha, Qatar. Hussain is... Continue Reading

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being Facebook stalked, and that is not being Facebook stalked.” For many people who frequent Facebook and other social networking sites, desires for social interaction can override privacy concerns. On Thursday, California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks hosted a presentation on privacy management in social... Continue Reading

Surveys show many Americans struggle to name the first book of the Bible, the four gospels or the Ten Commandments. (In a “Tonight Show” classic, an interviewee told Jay Leno that one of the commandments was “freedom of speech.”) Proponents of a Kentucky Senate bill promoting instruction about the Bible in public schools rightly point... Continue Reading