The graphic in question was posted to Twitter March 8 by Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. The national pro-life organization had intended it to run as a promoted ad, but Twitter ensured that it never saw the light of day by removing it immediately.
This Lent, Zeena, husband Sameer Patel and their three sons are on a special path together as they prepare to receive the sacraments of initiation and become Catholic at the April 20 Easter Vigil at Little Flower Parish in Bethesda, Maryland. The parents and their two oldest sons will be baptized, confirmed and receive their first Communion. Raif will be baptized.
Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school.
Scammers have taken aim at pastors, parishes and even the bishop in the Diocese of Jackson in the past couple of months.
Sunday, April 14, turned out to be one of those magical days that sports fans will always remember, down to the details of where they were when it happened – when, with a fused back and enough personal baggage to sink a battleship, a 43-year-old Tiger Woods nevertheless managed to turn back time and win the Masters.
From the 17th-century ban by the Vatican of Copernicus’ mathematical calculation that the sun was at the center of the solar system to modern-day arguments about evolution’s compatibility with a belief in God, science and faith have regularly butted heads in the public square.
An estimated 7,000 people, including busloads from the Richmond and Arlington dioceses, converged on the state Capitol in Richmond for the first Virginia March for Life, April 3.
An estimated 100,000 apprehensions of immigrants by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in March is the highest figure in one month in a decade.
Physician-assisted suicide bills in New York, like similar bills that have passed in several other states, lack important safeguards, making coercion or misapplication of the law a serious threat. Furthermore, they send a dangerous message to society that when someone is considered a “burden” to someone else, his or her life is no longer worth living.
Terrence Wright, an associate professor of philosophy and director of the pre-theology program at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, wrote a well-intentioned introduction to Dorothy Day, setting out to rebut the false idea that she was a “dissenting Catholic.”
