A prominent Jesuit publication’s essay on American religion and politics continues to provoke responses from critics concerned its two authors fundamentally misunderstand the situation of Catholics in the United States. “Their essay is bad but important,” said New...
The Archdiocese of Pondi-cherry and Cuddalore and the Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes will observe August 10 as a ‘black day’ in protest against denial of SC status to Dalit Christians and Muslims. Fr. A. Arputharaj, Secretary, SC/ST Commission, Puducherry,...
The director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in England has raised the alarm about recent experiments in “genetic editing” of human embryos, saying that the procedure involves the acceptance of eugenics. David Albert Jones re-marked that the experiment also involved...
The Christian population in nine Middle Eastern states is 14,526,000, down from 14,740,000 in 2010, according to a report published by the Vatican newspaper. The total population of Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey is 258...
Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of Quebec City has indicated that he would approve funerals for Catholics who opted for physician-assisted suicide. Cardinal Lacroix, the primate of Canada, told America magazine that he might deny a funeral for someone who had been a public...
