VATICAN CITY (AP) — An adviser to the Vatican's high court has warned that Pope Francis' new reform of the church's marriage annulment process raises serious legal questions and could lead to "crises of conscience" for even happily-married Catholics.

The two motu proprio, Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus (The Lord Jesus, a meek judge) and Mitis et misericors Iesus (Jesus, meek and merciful), will be presented at a noon press conference at the Vatican Sept. 8. The two …

Noting that the groups are “longstanding friends of Israel and committed advocates for the well-being of the Jewish state,” Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs questioned why Israel approves a dramatically lower percentage of asylum …

Just two weeks after the government's Locker committee took the army to task for inefficiency and overspending, State Comptroller Joseph Shapira added his voice to the chorus of critics by asserting that the Israel Defense Forces has systematically …

Researchers from the University of South Florida are piecing together what happened at the now-closed Dozier School for Boys, where 51 sets of remains were found in an unmarked graveyard. juvenile justice · Florida …

… critics have faulted the law for creating a cumbersome network of new regulations, without solving the fundamental problem posed by what regulators now consider "systemically important" institutions whose failure might trigger another financial …

The Chancellor will jet to Paris for talks with three hardline members of the French administration including Emmanuel Macros who have flatly ruled out making concessions to Britain.

Actually, says Sharansky, Israel's relations with Reform Judaism are improving. Days after minister said Reform Jews aren't Jewish, Jewish Agency chief says things are much better than 20 years ago, when religious MKs thought sitting with Reform rabbis …

Labour party interim leader Harriet Harman urged her MPs to abstain in the vote on the Government’s controversial cuts to tax credits and other handouts last night.

The sanctuary movement began in the 1980s as an extension of the “underground railroad” to help illegal aliens from El Salvador and Guatemala. But it was more than that. The sanctuary movement in the U.S. not only sought to provide safe haven for the …