CNN is reporting: A Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death because she declined to renounce her Christian faith has been freed, her lawyer said Monday. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, reunited with her husband after getting out of custody, said her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour. An appeals court found that an initial judgment against… Read More Sudanese Christian Woman Freed After Death Sentence

Burns Strider, a Washington political strategist, paraphrasing The Godfather said it well: they turned down an offer they shouldn’t have refused. Today Pope Francis  announced during a pastoral trip to Calabria in southern Italy that the Mafia had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. He said they are guilty of the “adoration of evil and contempt… Read More Pope Francis: Mafia is excommunicated

The centerpiece of the recent Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism conference was Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga’s keynote address, which was followed by an excellent, thoughtful response by Bishop Blase Cupich. The Cardinal was introduced by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who described Pope Francis’ commitment to workers and their families while movingly recounting how… Read More The Catholic Case against Libertarianism (Part II): Cardinal Rodriguez and Bishop Cupich