Pope Francis leads the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 6. (CNS photo/Ettore Ferrari, EPA) | |
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From the earliest times, the history of the Church is studded with appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary. One such apparition happened when Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children in the small hamlet of Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal.
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In what they are calling a move to take the “smokescreen” away from pro-life investigators who caught the abortion giant cavalierly engaging in the selling of fetal body parts, Planned Parenthood has announced that they will no longer accept payment for these “products”.
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Day seven of the Synod of Bishops on the Family focused primarily on forming couples for marriage and accompanying them after marriage, as well as providing the sacraments to the divorced and remarried. The press spokesman also addressed a letter that was supposedly given to the Pope before the Synod began which expressed concern about the way the Synod was being managed.
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Some of the nation’s most esteemed legal and political scholars have issued a statement calling upon all public officials and American citizens to resist the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the
Obergefell v. Hodges case that redefined marriage for every state in the nation because the ruling is unconstitutional and therefore illegitimate.
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When we welcomed Pope Francis into our country, I'm sure many of you moms, like me, dreamt of traveling to be with the crowds who were there to celebrate, listen, and pray with the pontiff. Of course, for most of us, it never got further than a fleeting, wishful thought.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
It’s a scenario that was once the stuff of sci fi novels – a "leftover" embryo who was conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and “adopted” by another couple who brings her to life – meets up with her biological sister a decade later.
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The results of several days of small group meetings at the Synod of Bishops on the Family point to a need to change the way the Church communicates with the world, and to come to a new understanding of what marriage and family looks like in the modern world.
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Stories are pouring in from all over the world about persons who are being seriously injured or killed by a popular new “cleansing” fad involving the use of a hallucinogenic drink known as Ayahuasca.
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