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An upcoming HBO movie on Dr. Jack Kevorkian is bound to be sympathetic -- but others are standing against assisted suicide in the public square.

This week The Economist published its stunning cover story -- "Gendercide: What Happened to 100 Million Baby Girls?" -- ending media resistance to...

The majority in Congress is ready to use reconciliation to sneak another government takeover through Congress -- and I'm not talking about health...

“Manners police” are odious and a threat to free speech. The power to decide who is being mean is the power to become the bully in nanny’s...

What if your daily job were to work among the very poorest people in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? Taking food to the "most...

Once again, archaeology confirms the accuracy of biblical history. That’s good news, but should it affect how we believers view Scripture?

Aboard the Titanic, the men generally behaved with great concern for women and children, doing their best to get the women and children into the...

Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., has announced changes to its employees' health care benefits. Normally, this wouldn't be big news, but...

Why has our culture embraced the therapeutic mindset that's invented sympathetic psychological explanations for everything from shoplifting to...

When you hear the term "social justice," what comes to mind? As a new DVD series shows, social justice is "the activity of Christians who are...

Individuals need to be protected. And if that protection does not come from the loving community of family and Church, the government steps in with...

Arnold Toynbee contended that one clear sign of a civilization’s decline is when the elites begin mimicking the vulgarity and promiscuity exhibited...

Catherine Davis is a woman with a message, and that message is getting harder to ignore. "Black children are an endangered species."

As a nation and as individuals, we’ve gotten to the point where we can hardly conceive of living life without access to an endless line of credit....

Even if E.T. is out there, the solution for the longing expressed in Contact and Avatar isn't to sit by the phone waiting for him, or imagining...