In order that his Most Sovereign Majesty King George III his ministers and his army of Redcoats would become aware of something significant arising among the nations a plain-spoken farmer-lawyer from Braintree Massachusetts stood up among the delegates of the Continental Congress and offered th

It may have been hard to imagine conditions for Christians in Iraq getting much worse than they already were but two days ago they did Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL apparently at the time only lightly armed swept through Mosul Iraq rsquo s second largest city

Immigration worries are back in the headlines after a sudden flurry of media attention to what has been a slowly building humanitarian catastrophe the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors reaching the U S southern border some as young as 5 and 6 after a perilous crossing through Mexico fro

Top Catholic and Orthodox church officials in North America are calling on the Vatican to let married men become priests in Eastern rite Catholic churches another sign that optional celibacy could become a front-burner issue under Pope Francis Eastern rite Catholic churches have a look and feel sim

Three voices of reason amid the rancorous reactions to the release of Sgt. Bergdahl.

To be honest it was a speech I 39 d always zoned out on If you 39 ve been to a graduation ceremony you 39 ll know what I 39 m talking about Just after the diplomas are handed out someone on the dais whom you 39 ve most likely never seen before steps up to the podium and says quot On beha