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Actor Charlie Sheen has angered a coven of warlocks from Salem, Massachusetts for what they call his excessive use of the term "warlock" which they say is "a blatant offense against our ways."

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A growing trend in U.S. and European public schools to mandate graphic sex ed programs that promote promiscuity and "alternative" lifestyles has reached historic proportions in Germany where teh 10th Christian parent has just been tossed in jail for refusing to allow her children to attend the classes. Attorneys on the case are warning that this trend may soon reach American shores.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Some of the country's top pro life organizations are rallying to the aid of baby Joseph Maraachli in an attempt to get him into a hospital in the United States where he can escape attempts by a Canadian hospital to remove his ventilator and let him die.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced on Friday that the U.S. House will appoint attorneys to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) after President Barack Obama decided it was unconstitutional and instructed the Justice Department to stop defending it.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A new national poll has found that public support for same-sex marriage is rising with those in favor of the unions on the verge of eclipsing those who oppose it.

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"To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women." Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen For Reflection: To what extent am I raising the level of our culture and civilization?

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"Fear not, I have called you by name: you are mine." Isaiah 43: 1 For Reflection: How are these words meant for me today?

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"Women are called to bring to the family, to society, and to the Church, characteristics which are their own and which they alone can give: their gentle warmth and untiring generosity, their love for detail, their quick- wittedness and intuition, their simple and deep piety, their constancy." St. Josemaria Escriva For Reflection: In what specific ways have I/do I demonstrate the feminine qualities listed by St. Josemaria Escriva?

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Pressure and outrage from alumni and other supporters has forced administratos at Northwestern University to reverse themselves and condemn a live demonstration of sex that occurred in a "human sexuality" class on Feb. 21 on their Evanston, Illinois campus.

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JH writes: "I have a friend who had a conversion and has become close to Jesus and Mary. He prays daily, including the Rosary and The Divine Mercy Chaplet.  Lately, however, I have become concerned because he started to get messages in dreams to write a book. It is a novel that takes place after the chastisements. He gets all of the information in dreams.  He cannot continue to write until he has another dream, so he looks forward to the next dream. It is consuming his life. I am concerned that it is the devil because it seems to me that he is putting more emphasis on the dreams than on God. I cannot discern whether the book is from God or from the devil until it is finished, but I know there are mystical characters in it; in other words, characters that are getting supernatural messages.

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