The Editors

Contraception coverage collides with Catholic Church Thousands of Catholic Church employees in Wisconsin are now eligible for birth control coverage through their health insurance plans, under the budget bill passed by the Legislature last year. But because the church considers artificial . . . . Continue Reading »

A high school history teaches asks New York state to  Fix the Regents’ Exams .  ”The correlation between increased passing rates and the increasingly content-free nature of the exams is,” he argues, “hard to miss.” An  English government study says that . . . . Continue Reading »

Pope snubbed by Scottish Catholics Controversy has broken out over the Pope’s planned open-air Mass at Bellahouston Park, near Glasgow, with many parishes returning more than half of their allocated tickets for the event. The organisers now reportedly fear that attendance will fall short of . . . . Continue Reading »

Allowed to show some English movies, the Poles made up their own posters , substituting art for the girls and guns favored by the English studios. Deciding to do something “mischievous in its conception,” two Hollywood biggies have compiled a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in . . . . Continue Reading »

Over 200 Military Physicians Petition for No Abortion on Military Bases Over 200 active and retired military physicians have signed a letter organized by the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association (CMA), in which they ask Senators to vote against the FY 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Russian Orthodox Church is training an “army” of young missionaries with an “anti-Western philosophy” to convey the Church’s teaching on contemporary issues and “distance young people from drugs, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity.” In Philosophy and Faith , . . . . Continue Reading »

Remains of St John the Baptist ‘found’ Bone fragments of St John the Baptist appear to have been found on Sveti Ivan Island near Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea. Obama tells veterans that end of Iraq war is about to begin In a speech to the Disabled American Veterans national . . . . Continue Reading »

Timothy George, Evangelical leader and member of the First Things board, shares  his favorite five biographies of theologians . Joseph Kanon, spy novelist, explains how he chooses his subjects . The Anchoress gives a Rosary meditation for job-seekers . David Klinghoffer discusses the move from . . . . Continue Reading »

Vatican preparing new document on effects of abortion on women The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, announced that his dicastery is preparing a document on the effects of abortion on women, often called post-abortion syndrome. The document . . . . Continue Reading »

Finally remembered is the brave and multi-talented  Garland of Arabia , a mentor to Lawrence of Arabia, who said Garland was “much more use than I could be” in blowing up railroads and teaching the Bedouin to do it, and thereby aiding England during World War I. The . . . . Continue Reading »