The recently retired Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, sent a letter to our ministry in which he advised Catholics to steer clear of yoga because of its basis in Hinduism and to take up other methods of exercise that don’t place the faith in unnecessary danger.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Mass media giant Viacom is looking to the Church to rescue its flagging sales by launching a new outdoor ad campaign in New York City that features the heads of characters from the Comedy Central show on images of Sacred Heart votive candles.
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Sonia Choquette
MMA writes: “One of our relatives brings a deck of cards called 'Trust Your Vibes' by Sonia Choquette to every family get together. She calls them angel cards & is very insistent about wanting to do cards to "help" everyone. This has been the cause of much anxiety for us. I have already said how I feel about this. Is there any more we can say to her to make it clearer?”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkm,ann, OCDS
The press was quick to publicize the wrist-slapping given to the insurance industry by the government this week for not properly subsidizing contraception coverage, but no one reported on the pivotal role played in the dustup by Big Pharma giant, Bayer, the manufacturer of a birth control pill with life-threatening side effects that has resulted in more than 10,000 lawsuits against the company from injured women.
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With the support of a vast majority of House Republicans, and due to the pro-life dedication of the House Republican leadership, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed landmark legislation, 242-184, to extend federal protections to unborn children who have reached 20 weeks fetal age, and those who are born alive during late abortions.
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A Dominican sister from Iraq testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday and made an impassioned plea to the world to help return Christians to the land they have occupied since the dawn of Christianity, many of whom remain displaced and living out of church halls, schools and tents after having all of their worldly possessions stolen by ISIS jihadists.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSABC has just released the pilot for a new sitcom based on the early life of notorious gay bully and sex columnist, Dan Savage, which is filled with anti-Catholic bigotry and vulgarity.
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A Hungarian court has convicted a group of people responsible for selling embryonic stem cells acquired from the bodies of aborted babies for use in cosmetics.
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It is no accident that the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a bill that will ban abortions after 20 weeks on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, the same day on which House of Horrors abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted of murder two years ago.
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During his Wednesday audience on this feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Francis said there are three phrases which, when said out of love and respect rather than mere courtesy, have great power to strengthen family life.
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