While the old Democratic Catholic guard had, for example, adopted the fight for gay marriage and abortion rights, the new generation of Catholic voices seemingly adopted more conservative ...
Calshot Castle owes its existence to the dramatic events that unfolded following Henry VIII's annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Heretic’ utilizes the horror movie ‘playbook’ — juxtaposing the pure and sacred with evil and using vulnerability as a ...
The following summer, Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa was arrested, and several Catholic universities were closed. Seen as a symbol of resistance against the regime, Bishop Rolando Álvarez ...
It is to highlight their plight and to hopefully provoke global action on religious freedom that the charity Aid to the ...
In our society, the beauty and greatness of married love has been so obscured that most people now view marriage as a prison: a conventional, boring, legal matter that threatens love and destroys ...
The Hawaii Catholic bishops did not take a stance on the measure. Same-sex marriage in the U.S. According to a 2023 Pew Research survey, 63% of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be ...
South Korea used to be the world's largest source of babies for adoption. It's believed 200,000 children are part of the Korean adoptee diaspora, many of whom were sent away illegally and ...
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...
Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...
For the first three quarters of 2024, 1.967 million divorces were registered, a slight drop of 6,000 year-over-year, according to the data. Earlier this year, China reported its second annual drop ...