Meeting with Myanmar’s Buddhist leaders in Yangon, Pope Francis again pleaded for interreligious dialogue. Repeating what he had earlier told 150,000 faithful at a papal mass, he emphasized that religions need to work to “heal the wounds” of a still divided nation. In...
In a telephone survey of 1,503 U.S. adults conducted on Nov. 28 – Dec. 4 for the Pew Research Centre, 55% said they mark Christmas as a religious holiday. The figure in 2013, when Pew last asked this question, was 59%. “Nine in 10 U.S. adults say they celebrate...
As the drumbeats grew louder at the Jerusalem Church, members of the Legio Maria movement bowed in unison before they began speaking in tongues, praying and singing. Their “cardinal,” Raphael Midigo, dressed in a purple gown, appeared from behind a curtain near the...
Ingesting hormonal contrace-ption for 10 years increases the risk of breast cancer by 38%, according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medi-cine. “This is the first study that had shown intrauterine devices with hormones having associa-tion with breast...
“A slippery slope. ” When asked about the evolution of the practice of euthanasia in his country, Father Marc Desmet Jesuit and chief of a palliative care service in one of the biggest hospitals in Belgium, Hasselt, answer without hesitation. Fifteen years after the...
