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Is it possible that a social activist being considered for Catholic sainthood underwent an abortion? Yes, writes Kathleen Gilbert on the LifeSiteNews website. “The Catholic Church considers abortion to be murder of an innocent human being, and an unspeakable evil,” she reports, “and so some people might be surprised that a woman who is being…

Joseph P. Duggan writing in the American Spectator notes that today is the late Marshall McLuhan’s centennial. Duggan recalls him as “a man born on the western Canadian prairies” who pointed out several decades ago that “the medium is the message” and “the human family now exists under conditions of a global village.” McLuhan came to mind…

Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job, according to…

Chrislam, the popular acceptance of Islam by Christian, is “the spirit of the anti-Christ,” writes the Christian Post‘s David Dollins: “I want to address what is beginning to occur in the Church and why it must be rejected outright,” he writes. “It’s becoming increasingly ‘in vogue’ to accept Islam in the Church. “Consider a June…

Campus Crusade for Christ has decided to make a major change. It will drop “Christ” from its name. And “Campus.” And “Crusade.” In early 2012, reports the Internet website The Blaze, the ministry founded by Bill and Vonette Bright will officially drop the name it has held for 60 years, replacing it with a three-letter word —…

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that communities have a right to ban Islamic mosques. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO said protests and legal challenges to a planned mosque in Tennessee city are an example of local residents pushing back. Cain said his view doesn’t amount to religious discrimination…

If your heritage is non-African, reports Discovery News, you are part Neanderthal. In other words, all Europeans, Orientals and Native Americans are … descended from cavemen, but Africans are not? Discovery cites a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution and observes: Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics…

Forget his role in building the Panama Canal or his responsibility for America’s emergence as a world superpower with our victory in the Spanish-American War. Teddy Roosevelt is the reason America has football. In most other countries around the globe, “football” is soccer, the world’s most popular sport. However, in America, it evolved from a controversial, injury-ridden…

Homosexual New York Episcopalians will be allowed on Sunday to get married by priests in Brooklyn and Queens, but not in the Bronx or Manhattan or on Staten Island; in Syracuse but not in Albany, reports the New York Times. That is because the Episcopal church nationally has not taken a firm position nationally on…

Pornography opponent Morality in Media says children are encountering pornography on the Internet at alarming rate — with their average first exposure coming at age 11. MIM’s four-week “Be Aware: Porn Harms” National Awareness Campaign enters its second week on July 18th. Dawn Hawkins, MIM’s Executive Director and director of the campaign, said pornography’s consequences for…
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