[On Wednesday], seven Texas-area Muslim organizations filed an appeal of the unanimous ruling of the Texas Second Court of Appeals at Forth Worth, which protected the free speech rights of internet journalists and at the same time dealt a blow…

In March, Rep. Michael Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald introduced legislation in Connecticut to take over the governing structure of the Catholic Church. The bill was withdrawn quickly in response to outrage expressed by Catholics, who rallied at the state…

The surrealism of celebrity pop culture erupts when a major celebrity dies. The sudden, mysterious death of Michael Jackson caused a near-total eclipse of the real news. The cable-news channels blurred into 24-7 wailing walls for the so-called "King of…

Dear Friend,

The answer is: Moldova.

The question is: What is the most destitute country in Europe?

And the category is: Needless Suffering.

That’s how it might go if this were the game show Jeopardy. But life in a place like Moldova is far from…

Today, 125 years after its foundation, the female religious congregation of the Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception has the most vocations of any religious order in Peru, with 30 houses and 37 other institutions, including schools, homes for the elderly…

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has spoken out against the Israeli government for imposing an embargo on materials urgently needed for the reconstruction of Gaza.

His Beatitude Fouad Twal complained that tens of thousands of people whose homes and livelihoods were…

In this view into the daily life of a little girl with Down Syndrome, big sister Rachel lovingly describes her six-year-old sister, Alicia May.  Alicia May has endearing traits; she bursts through Rachel’s door in the morning with a sunny…

Twisted Hollywood and its twisted parade of tastemakers known as television critics are forever in search of another “black comedy,” and if audiences don’t embrace one, then they can always make another one. Showtime didn’t succeed with “Secret Diary of…

Nearly four years after the so-called “Haditha Massacre, ” an investigation conducted by over 65 NCIS agents (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) ─ the largest investigation in that agency’s history ─ with the expenditure of millions of taxpayer dollars, and prosecution losses at…

The Public Broadcasting Service recently announced it will not allow new religious programming on their taxpayer-subsidized airwaves. The handful of stations that have shown a Catholic Mass or Mormon devotions will be allowed to continue, but the other 300-plus stations…