Not Without Controversy, Mother Teresa Festivities Culminate with Beautiful Stamp
"The Postal Service is right to recognize that Mother Teresa’s Catholic faith and her title as a nun should not disqualify her from receiving honors such as this. To do so would constitute a gross form of religious discrimination." Read More
China Tries Out Changes to One-Child Rule
100,000 census workers have fanned out across the Chinese capital to register residents for a once-a-decade census that begins nationwide Nov. 1. The census data will prove crucial to planned reforms of China's "one-child policy." Read More
Fidel: Cuba's Communism Doesn't Work
Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. Read More
Judge Refuses to Lift Ban on Gov't Funds for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, despite Obama administration warnings that it would set back research and cost many jobs.
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Catholic Leaders Condemn Plan to Burn Qur'an
Catholic leaders worldwide are joining with U.S. officials to protest the decision of Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center in Florida to hold a "Qur'an Burning Day" on Saturday's anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks by Muslim fundamentalists. Read More
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For many parishioners on a Sunday morning, once the closing hymn hits the second refrain, the race is on to get out the door and out the parking lot before a log jam of cars blocks the exits. For Father Phil DeRea's flock, the close of Mass brings a whole other type of race entirely: one that accelerates up to 200 miles per hour.
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