India, one of the top international destinations for couples hoping to hire women as surrogates for pregnancy, is poised to ban the practice in most cases.

Change, however slow, will be welcome when it comes.

The forces arrayed against the education of the girl-child are legion and formidable.

Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception.

Alice von Hildebrand is a Belgian-born Catholic philosopher who retired from the classroom in 1984 after teaching at Hunter College in New York City for 37 years In September 2013 Pope Francis awarded her a Dame Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great on the occasion of her 90

When someone first asked me whether I heard that the American bishops were investigating the Girl Scouts, I thought he was pulling my leg.