Society & Culture

“The Pope also reiterated his conviction that all religions promote peace and that the danger of violent radicalization exists equally in all religions. ‘There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia,’ he said.

“Race influences views of US law enforcement more than religious tradition—except locally.”

Norma McCorvey, the woman behind the 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion, died Saturday. She was 69 years old. McCorvey died of heart failure at an assisted-living home in Katy, Texas, according to journalist Joshua Prager. Prager is writing a book about Roe v. Wade and told USA TODAY he has spent hundreds of hours with McCorvey.

Oregon’s Euthanasia Bill Is Intentionally Ambiguous

The registry, called ASSIMIL8, provides gay couples with a list of business owners whose privately held personal beliefs may reflect traditional Christian views on marriage. The excited fiancés can then pick whose lives they want to totally destroy with a lengthy and frivolous lawsuit, as they anticipate their cheerful nuptials.

Michael Novak, theologian who made a spiritual case for capitalism, dies at 83

Minister: American Girl doll ‘a trick of the enemy’: “This is nothing more than a trick of the enemy to emasculate little boys and confuse their role to become men … The devil wants to kill, steal and destroy the minds of our children and grandchildren by perverting, distorting and twisting (the) truth of who God created them to be.”

The Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding broke the state’s antidiscrimination law, even though she claimed doing so would violate her religious beliefs. Stutzman’s lawyers immediately said they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the decision.

“A congressional committee has taken the first step in a fast-track effort to prevent the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the nation’s capital.” BPress

“Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a radio talk show host Monday that he believes fewer than 25 percent of those working in the ‘mainstream … elite’ media have religious faith, and expressed surprise at what he termed was media hostility to President Trump.”