by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 4, 2011 | News
State legislators are battling over immigration from Arizona to South Carolina. In some cases, business leaders are opposing anti-immigration bills. In Arizona, state Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa) introduced three new immigration bills last week. His bills seek to...
by Francis Rocca | Mar 3, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Jewish people as a whole were not responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion, and their descendants have not inherited blame for his death, Pope Benedict XVI writes in a new book to be published on March 10. The statements appear in excerpts, which were...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 3, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday (March 2) that the “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” protesters from Westboro Baptist Church have First Amendment rights to protest military funerals. But does that mean more protests from...
by Maryann Spoto | Mar 3, 2011 | News
(RNS) A New Jersey man who claimed God made him kill his pregnant girlfriend will get a new trial because jurors deciding his case should have been allowed to hear special instructions about an insanity defense, an appellate panel has ruled. The three-judge panel...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 2, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Rev. Peter Gomes, the longtime minister of Harvard University’s Memorial Church who was hailed as one of the nation’s top preachers, died Monday (Feb. 28) at age 68. Gomes died from complications of a stroke he suffered in December, the university said....
by Jon Dillingham | Mar 2, 2011 | News
IRVINE, Calif. (RNS) “Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech!” And so began the protest of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s lecture at the University of California, Irvine in February 2010, as the shouting student, Osama Ahmed Shabaik,...
