Humanity can be dangerously spellbound by hi-tech progress, Pope Francis warns
VATICAN – Technology holds the potential to benefit all of humankind, but it also poses risky and unforeseen results, Pope Francis said.
Defend life, equality, unity, Pope tells Colombians
BOGOTA, Colombia - Consolidating peace in Colombia will mean overcoming "the darkness" of inequality and a lack of respect for human life, Pope Francis said.
Promote life by protecting, sharing clean water, Pope says
VATICAN CITY – Access to clean drinking water is a basic human right and a key component in protecting human life, Pope Francis said.
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Fix overcrowded prisons unfit for human life, Pope says in wake of Brazil prison riot
VATICAN CITY – In the wake of a deadly riot in a Brazilian jail, Pope Francis called for all prisons to offer dignified living conditions and be places for true rehabilitation.
Cardinal Raymond Burke: Trump will defend human life from conception
ROME – President-elect Donald Trump will uphold Christian values, a prominent U.S. cardinal has said.
Chesterton conference confronts challenge of modern-day eugenics
ROME – The eugenics mentality that affirms some human lives are worth more than others did not end with the Nazis, but continues in modern times through abortion and the promotion of contraception, especially in the Third World, said a U.S.-based historian and author.
Parents of slain child oppose death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber
BOSTON - The parents of Martin Richard, the youngest victim killed in the Boston Marathon bombings two years ago, are asking that the death penalty be taken "off the table" for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Priest advocates for peace in Colombia
Nobody has shot at Fr. Jesus Alberto Franco since Feb. 13, 2013. But that doesn't necessarily mean the situation in Colombia is getting better.
It's the end of life as we know it
Hang on for dear life.
Unfortunately, the dearness of life seems to be dying a not-so-slow death.
England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents
CANTERBURY, England - Members of Parliament voted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people to try to eradicate a type of genetic disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of babies.
Pope Francis: 'Evolution … is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Monday (Oct. 27) waded into the controversial debate over the origins of human life, saying the big bang theory did not contradict the role of a divine creator, but even required it.