by Daniel Burke | Aug 17, 2010 | News
(RNS) Catholic and other church-run health care systems in the U.S. are more efficient and provide higher quality care than their secular counterparts, according to a new Thomson Reuters study. The study looked at 255 health care systems and found that Catholic and...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 12, 2010 | News
(RNS) Robert Aitken Roshi, a prolific author, social justice activist and pioneer in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West, died last Thursday (Aug. 5) at age 93. Born in Philadelphia, Aitken was introduced to Buddhism while imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 11, 2010 | News
(RNS) Three Kentucky men have dropped their six-year effort to sue the Vatican over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, citing insurmountable legal and practical obstacles. The men, who say they were abused by priests in the Archdiocese of Louisville decades ago,...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 9, 2010 | News
(RNS) When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down California’s Proposition 8 on Wednesday (Aug. 4), he said voters’ motivation for outlawing gay marriage was clear. The evidence shows conclusively that moral and religious views form the only basis...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 5, 2010 | News
(RNS) In a decision with enormous legal, political, and religious implications, a federal judge on Wednesday (Aug. 4) struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s watershed decision marks the...
