Human embryos created by somatic cell nuclear transfer are pictured on the third day of development in experiments conducted by researchers in Oregon. Utilizing unfertilized eggs from donor women, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center were able to reprogram human skin cells...

Mercy Sister Anne Fleming leads a prayer for victims of human trafficking on Human Trafficking Awareness Day in Detroit in early January. U.S. women religious are uniting in an effort to eradicate human trafficking through eduction, advocacy and assisting the victims. (CNS photo/Jim West)   By Dennis SadowskiCatholic News Service   WASHINGTON (CNS) -...

A priest listens to a confession during Mass in 2012 at the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw, Poland. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, said he repeatedly hears that "many people have been going to confession and many have said that, while they...

Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown in a courtroom artist sketch during his sentencing at Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia May 15. Gosnell was sent to prison to serve three life terms without parole for murdering babies during late-term abortions and for other crimes at his squalid clinic. In a...

A pilgrim carries an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe during celebrations marking her feast day, Dec. 12, 2012, outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Mary is associated with everything from national identity in Mexico to the mother earth in Chile to the national patroness...

An injured victim is carried from the scene of an explosion at the Boston Marathon April 15. While praising the efforts of police, local priests expressed frustration at their inability to gain access to victims of the bombing that day. (CNS photo/Daily Free Press/Kenshin Okubo, Boston University handout via Reuters)   By...