Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn an attempt to make the prospect of dying less complicated (from a material point-of-view), a new breed of “death apps” promise to take the guesswork out of dying and to make life simpler for our loved ones. But are they missing an important point?
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In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to deny an unmarried lesbian woman the right to adopt three children she had been raising with her partner before the relationship ended; however the ruling was based more on the respect due to state law than on the issue of same-sex adoption.
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“Every person must embrace the
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Dear Friends,On a recent Women of Grace Live radio program, we discussed the quote below, which came from one of my previous blog posts. It generated a spirit-filled conversation about overcoming fear when we are moving forward in what we believe to be God's will for our lives. I am re-posting the blog below as well as the link to the radio program below. I hope that it provides you inspiration today if you are experiencing fear.
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Four members of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries of Charity order were killed along with 16 other people after an attack by Islamic extremists on a Church-run retirement home in Yemen on Friday.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In what sounds like something out of a ghoulish new horror movie, officials at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are proposing that women whose unborn infants develop fatal defects in the early months of pregnancy be permitted to carry the baby to term so that it’s organs can be harvested after birth.
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“To a great extent the level of any
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Tracy Elise (center in long blue gown) and her "goddesses"
A New Age priestess and radical tantrist appeared in Maricopa County Superior Court last week claiming a Catholic conspiracy is behind the charges brought against her “goddess temple” which include prostitution, pandering, money laundering and illegal control of an enterprise.
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“Fear not….I have called you by
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“Women are called to bring to the family,
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