Daddy Knows Best: With Valentine’s Day gifts like these, who needs reproductive freedom and moral autonomy?

Rannting with Ann Pellegrini Every day seems to bring a new assault not just on women’s reproductive freedom in the United States, but on the notion of women as moral …Continue reading »

Estadão: No Rio, PSD vira ‘feudo’ de evangélicos

Luciana Nunes Leal | Estadão (Brasil) O PSD pode até não ser de direita, esquerda ou centro, como já definiu o fundador e presidente do novo partido, Gilberto Kassab, mas, …Continue reading »

In Focus: Testing the limits to freedom of religion: building a case against polygamy

Alon Weinberg | University of Manitoba Long outlawed but seldom prosecuted, the practice of polygamy continues to challenge authorities seeking to apprehend its practitioners while honoring their constitutionally-guaranteed religious freedoms. …Continue reading »

The New York Times: Catholic Hospitals Expand, Religious Strings Attached

Reed Abelson | The New York Times (United States) As Roman Catholic leaders and government officials clash over the proper role of religion and reproductive health, shifts in health care …Continue reading »

CNA: Ave Maria University challenges HHS mandate in federal court

Benjamin Mann | Catholic News Agency (United States) Ave Maria, Fla., Feb 21, 2012 / 10:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Ave Maria University has filed a lawsuit seeking relief from the …Continue reading »

La Jornada: El eje Wojtyla-Ratzinger y Calderón

Carlos Fazio | La Jornada (México) Cuando en marzo de 2005 el papa Karol Wojtyla agonizaba en Roma, hacía ya años que había dejado de gobernar a la Iglesia católica. …Continue reading »

Postmedia News: Catholic students can’t boycott religion course, top court rules

Postmedia News (Canada) Catholic parents in Quebec cannot keep their children out of an ethics course at school that teaches them about other religions, the country’s top court has ruled. …Continue reading »

AP: NYPD Monitored Muslim Students All Over Northeast

Chris Hawley | Associated Press (United States) One autumn morning in Buffalo, N.Y., a college student named Adeela Khan logged into her email and found a message announcing an upcoming …Continue reading »

The New York Times: A Quiet Struggle Within the Gay Marriage Fight

Matt Smith | The New York Times (United States) Straight couples dressed in tuxedoes and pastel-colored gowns were forced to wait in a hallway outside the San Francisco recorder’s office …Continue reading »

AFP: Pope to create first Native American saint

Agence France-Presse (United States) Pope Benedixt XVI announced on Saturday that he will create seven new saints including the first Native American, a 17th-century Mohawk girl named Kateri Tekakwitha, on …Continue reading »

Universo Gay: Un alcalde mexicano ha prohibido que las organizaciones LGTB repartan condones durante el carnaval

Alexander Rocha | Universo Gay (México) Organizaciones mexicanas de minorías sexuales no podrán repartir condones durante la celebración del Carnaval Internacional de Mazatlán, el cual comenzó el pasado jueves 16 …Continue reading »