
During the first press conference regarding the opening sessions of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, Archbishop Bruno Forte said no doctrinal changes in Church teaching will come about as a result of this synod because it is about addressing the Church’s pastoral approach to family issues, not changing the Church’s positions.
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If you haven’t already done so, Catholics around the world are being urged to “adopt a synod father” for whom they are encouraged to pray and fast during this critical gathering in Rome.
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A little boy born last year with microhydranencephaly, a rare condition that results in incomplete brain formation, just celebrated his first birthday leaving his doctors stunned and his parents ecstatic.
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Disturbing information is coming out about the influence of the occult on Oregon shooter Chris Harper-Mercer who gunned down nine people at a rural community college last week.
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Pope Francis has opened the long-awaited Synod of Bishops on the Family with the same message he has been preaching for the last year – God’s idea of marriage is that of a man and a woman and is meant to last forever.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE AT END OF BLOG!
California’s Governor Jerry Brownhas until Wednesday of this week - the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary - to determine whether or not California will join the small group of states that allow physician assisted suicide by signing into law a bill that was passed during an extraordinary legislative process that has many crying foul.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Eyewitnesses to the killing of nine innocent people at a community college in rural Oregon say the gunman specifically targeted Christians and was known to be disdainful of organized religion which raises the question of just how much this killer was influenced by the politically correct "hate speech" routinely aimed at Christians in today's America.
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Women from all walks of life are signing on to a letter addressed to the Synod Fathers which affirms their support for Church teachings as being “a source of authentic freedom, equality, and happiness for women.”
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A new report issued by a House oversight committee has revealed that Planned Parenthood, which dips into the public coffer for more than a half billion dollars a year, spends exorbitant amounts of money on executive salaries, travel, and lavish parties.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Since news broke on Monday about the Pope meeting with Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis who chose jail rather than issue same-sex marriage licenses, the secular media is apoplectic over the destruction of the fairytales they created about the Holy Father’s supposed liberal bend.
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