by Francis X. Rocca | Oct 6, 2010 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican’s top bioethics official expressed “perplexity” after the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded Monday (Oct. 4) to the inventor of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Bishop Ignazio Carrasco de Paula, president of the Pontifical Academy for...
by Daniel Burke | Oct 6, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Relatives of 9/11 victims who believe debris from Ground Zero contains human remains and should be given a suitable burial said they are “shocked” that the Supreme Court on Monday (Oct. 4) refused to hear their appeal. “Denying our right to present...
by Ron Csillag | Oct 6, 2010 | News
TORONTO (RNS) One of Canada’s top Eastern Orthodox hierarchs has resigned his duties and been granted a leave of absence following allegations by police of “misconduct” going back decades. Archbishop Seraphim of Ottawa, who has jurisdiction over all of Canada for the...
by Al Webb | Oct 5, 2010 | News
LONDON (RNS) Druidry, the pagan worship that has been practiced on these shores for thousands of years, on Friday (Oct. 1) gained recognition by the British government as an official religion after a four-year legal battle. The Charity Commission, established by...
by Peggy Fletcher Stack and The Salt Lake Tribune | Oct 5, 2010 | News
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Despite an impressive number of men and women preaching the Mormon gospel across the globe, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints needs even more missionaries, LDS President Thomas S. Monson said. A two-year mission is a...
by Francis X. Rocca | Oct 5, 2010 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI spent Sunday (Oct. 3) in the heartland of the Sicilian Mafia, denouncing organized crime and paying tribute to those slain in the long struggle against the mob. “Don’t give in to the temptations of the Mafia, which is a path of...
