The Vatican announced Monday that the world’s cardinals, assembling in Rome next week to welcome two dozen new members to their ranks, will gather a day early for “reflection and prayer” on several topics, including the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The late Pope John Paul II brought together American cardinals at the Vatican for two [...]
The foreclosure crisis has an unusual capital markets twist. A law firm at the center of the controversy in Florida, the Law Offices of David J. Stern, sold its foreclosure-servicing business to a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, the Chardan 2008 China Acquisition Corporation, less than a year ago. The newly formed company is [...]
While the campaign by social conservatives against gay marriage has grabbed headlines and consumed millions of lobbying dollars from religious groups, the wider crisis of divorce among straight couples — especially evangelicals and often their leaders and political icons — has been largely ignored by Christian conservatives. That may be changing, however, with the latest [...]