Criminal Law

KISS Me
From the book God and the World, a conversation between writer Peter Sewald and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: (Sewald): It's obvious that Jesus takes particular delight in children and in people with a simple faith...

COA Rejects Suit To Obtain Share Of Pope Estate
Today, in a dispute concerning Raleigh's prominent Pope family, the Court of Appeals ruled that Jane Forbes Pope, the widow of John W. Pope, Jr., is not entitled to a share of the money that her late husband transferred to the Pope family trust, which later transferred the funds to the John William Pope Foundation upon his death...

TYC Scandal of the Day: Pope Resigns
Dimitria Pope, the troubled acting executive director of the Texas Youth Commission, resigned late last night. As the Houston Chronicle reports, Pope has been a lightning rod for controversy since her appointment last spring to an agency that was then being ripped apart by one of the worst abuse scandals to ever hit juvenile corrections...

Pope Benedict XVI on Marriage: A Compendium
A new analysis published on the eve of Pope Benedict's historic U.S. visit, finds that in less than three years of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has spoken publicly about marriage on 111 occasions ...

Pope Denounces Italy's Abortion Law
San Diego Tribune: Pope speaks out against Italy abortion law, by Silvia Aloisi: VATICAN CITY ? Pope Benedict said on Monday that 30 years of legalised abortion had devalued human life in Italy, but the centre-left opposition said legislation had...

Pope Thanks Corzine for Abolishing the Death Penalty in Jersey....
Well, it was not the public reiteration of the Catholic Church's condemnation of the death penalty that some of us would have liked to have seen, but the Pope did not leave the US without saying something about it...