Responding to the announcement of a breakthrough in human cloning technology Boston 39 s Cardinal Se n O rsquo Malley OFM Cap in his role as nbsp chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops wote that human cloning for any purpose is inconsistent

Kermit Gosnell found guilty on three out of four counts of first degree murder making him death penalty eligible and mutiple other counts in his 200 count criminal indictment Here is JD Mullane News Columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer and his blow by blow account

As one brother recovers in a prison hospital from wounds he received briefly eluding capture the remains of the other Tsarnaev brother linger in limbo His now quasi- and unhappily famous uncle Ruslan Tsami is trying to arrange his burial with the assistance of Peter Stefan a funeral home director

I nbsp am going to have to nominate Kim Daniels for 2013 ldquo thankless task rdquo award finalist As the new spokesperson for not the U S bishops rsquo conference nor for Cardinal Timothy Dolan in his capacity as archbishop of New York but for the office of the president of the U S C C B

For nearly two decades the people of the Congo have known nothing but conflict.

Two prominent Syrian bishops were kidnapped on Monday by armed rebels in the northern province of Aleppo according to a Vatican Radio report The Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Archbishops of Aleppo Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi were seized in the village of Kfar Dael on the road to Aleppo

Antiterrorism efforts have improved since the lack of coordination after Sept. 11.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism mdash The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington D C He responded by e-mail to a few questions in the aftermath of the apprehension of the second su

The idea is that when the public is informed, violations like this are far less likely to be repeated.

During the homily of yesterday 39 s mass dedicated to Benedict XVI 16th who turned 86 Pope Francis offered a happily unnuanced endorsement of the ambitions of Vatican II noted efforts to quot turn the clock back quot and suggested the church needed to do more to complete quot everything the H