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Twisted Thinking: Enslaving Women Keeps ISIS Fighters from Sin?

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

According to the latest edition of the terrorist group's propaganda publication, fighters in The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)  are permitted to make sex slaves out of captive "pagan" women because it prevents them from being tempted into sinful sexual conduct with Muslim women.

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Mary Visits Her Children: Our Lady of Fatima

Nine-year-old Lucia dos Santos looked into the angry face of her mother and wondered if this was what the Beautiful Lady meant when she said Lucia would suffer. Little Lucia had never experienced such fury from her mother, nor had her mother ever called her a liar before. Indeed, her heart was deeply saddened. Yet a warm glow filled her whenever she thought about the Lady from Heaven who had visited her and her younger cousins, Jacinta and Francisco.

ChildrensofFatimaThe three children had been tending their sheep the day before in the Cova da Iria, a portion of the land owned by Antonio dos Santos, Lucia’s father. Suddenly, something like lightning flashed in the blue sky and frightened them. The children ran for cover. Another flash, very close, and they ran again. When they stopped, there on top of a small evergreen tree was a large ball of light engulfing a beautiful woman, “a Lady of all white, more brilliant than the sun dispensing light…”

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Founders of Pope Paul VI Institute to Attend Sunday's Beatification

Dr. Thomas Hilgers and his wife, Sue, founders of the Pope Paul Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction - which has brought hope and healing to countless women and couples struggling with infertility - will be in attendance on Sunday when Pope Francis beatifies Pope Paul VI.

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