DETROIT – As more than 1,200 business, academic and government leaders from 25 countries gathered in Detroit for the World Stem Cell Summit, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit said research that destroys human embryos “deserves our scrutiny and scorn.”Read More
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Catholic leaders condemned the Tuskegee-like medical experiments U.S. researchers carried out on Guatemalans in the 1940s, calling them a “deplorable” abuse of power.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Honoring one of the inventors of in vitro fertilization with the Nobel Prize for Medicine “ignores all the ethical problems” connected to the creation of so-called “test tube babies,” an Italian professor told Vatican Radio.Read More
LONDON – The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision by the Charity Commission for England and Wales forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples as potential adopters and foster parents.Read More
Katy Zeitler can pinpoint her conversion to one precise moment. During a high school trip to Paris, the daughter of an atheist mother and agnostic father attended a Mass inside a small church. As she observed everyone kneeling after receiving Communion, Zeitler felt a French women tug on her arm toward the ground.Read More
PALERMO, Sicily – Pope Benedict XVI urged the young people of Sicily to reject the “path of death” offered by organized crime and to stand up to evil by witnessing the values of the Gospel.Read More
WASHINGTON – The United States should liberalize immigration policies for Haitians and work harder at reconstruction in Haiti and toward finding permanent family solutions for orphans, said a report from bishops and others who visited the region recently as part of a delegation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its affiliated agencies.Read More
WASHINGTON – At what one participant called a “critical juncture in consecrated life,” dozens of religious and Catholic lay leaders gathered in Chicago recently to hash out the next steps needed to attract young people to religious life today.Read More
VILLA MARIA, Pa. – A half-dozen 10-gallon buckets of firm, ripe tomatoes crowd the concrete floor of the workhouse room on the Villa Maria Farm that serves as a small store where customers can get a juicy taste of summer. Alongside, buckets of green and yellow peppers, some hot and some sweet, compete for attention....Read More