Proponents of embryonic stem cell research heartened by an executive order from President Obama which lifted many Bush-era restrictions on federal money for this controversial bio-medical research are facing a setback after a federal court suspended the 2009 executive order Chief Judge Royce C L

A poll released last month by the Public Religion Research Institute sheds light on the impact of religion and the 2008 vote to abolish same-sex marriage rights in California The poll finds that today a slim majority of Roman Catholics 51 support same-sex marriage interestingly that number ju

Pity Opus Dei Just when they ve dampened the fires of the Da Vinci Code they find themselves implicated in an extraordinary story of mafioso murders secret service intrigues and of course our old friends Archbishop Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank To be fair Opus Dei s involvement in the story o

Do you ever wish nbsp that you were done learning That instead of being tested life was easy leisurely Years ago when still a teenager I wanted to start a religion called ldquo Incidental Meditation rdquo or ldquo I M rdquo for short At the heart of the religion was that the teachings wo

An interesting article from CNS highlights the similarities between the backlash against the building of Park 51 and the prejudice of 19th-century Nativists The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the late

After many many years of wrangling the story of nbsp which will be familiar to readers of America the new English-language translation of the Roman Missal has finally been approved nbsp This marks the first significant change in the English-language Mass since the Second Vatican Council nbsp