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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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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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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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
On Wednesday evening, ABC aired two previews of it’s controversial new sitcom, The Real O’Neal’s, about a dysfunctional Catholic family that was riddled with so much blatant mockery and attacks on Catholic beliefs that Christians across the country are demanding it be taken off the air.
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The Washington Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear the case of floral artist Barronelle Stutzman, whom the state attorney general and the American Civil Liberties Union sued for acting consistently with her faith.
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An Illinois mother is mourning the sudden death of her 22 year-old son who committed suicide after ingesting a supplement known as “pong pong seed” which he purchased on the internet for just $5.
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Wouldn’t it be great to enjoy a family meal without the interruption of cell phones? A new promotion by the family-friendly fast food chain, Chick-fil-A, can make it happen for you! And you get free ice cream to boot!
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It’s been a little over a year since Our Lord appeared to Nigeria’s Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme to tell him that with the sword of the rosary, the terrorist group Boko Haram would be “gone” from his country and signs of the group’s unraveling are beginning to be seen.
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Thousands of women are expressing their outrage after the FDA announced this week that it will not remove a birth control device known as Essure from the market, in spite of more than 10,000 complaints of serious injury from women, but will merely add a sterner warning to the label.
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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.
