with contributions from Carol Throntveit, Joan D. Chittister, Christina M. Puchalski, Russell Stannard, Dayton Fandray
Speaking about her work as a Supreme Court Justice in Minnesota, Joan Ericksen Lancaster says, "It's important for a justice to have experience, evenness of temperament, and a willingness to think about how a decision today will play out in years to come.
with contributions from Timothy P. Daaleman, Larry VandeCreek, Jennifer Frey, Jan Goodwin, Gail Bernice Holland
An article published
last fall reported that people with religious beliefs tend to be less willing to turn to euthanasia or to doctor-assisted suicide.
"The picture of
[Jesus] which emerges from the gospels is of a person who was interested in the whole of life," said the Archbishop of Canterbury in a speech at St.
with contributions from Ann Scott Tyson, Nate Hendley
Following World War II, on December 14, 1950, the United Nations created a High Commission for Refugees to help resettle about a million people who had been displaced by war.
with contributions from Robert J. Bliwise, Paula Rinehart
When a gang
of leather-clad motorcyclists roared up to the Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland, in the town square, at least some lookers-on might have wondered what was coming.