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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The faithful are expressing their outrage this morning after learning that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a long-time advocate of abortion and same-sex marriage, has written a letter to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone asking him not to attend the upcoming March for Marriage in Washington, DC.

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The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, Amel Shamon Nona, has fled the Iraqi city of Mosul along with the vast majority of the 1,200 Christian families who were left in the city after it fell into the hands of revels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) late last week.

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A new poll has found that fathers across America are tired of being portrayed in the media as "disconnected, bumbling and incompetent" and sparked the creation of a moving ad that depicts fathers in a much more realistic - and deserving - way.

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A Long Island health care company is being sued by three employees who allege that they were fired for not participating in a religion known as "Onionhead" which required workers to embrace a belief system of "harnessing happiness" and engage in bizarre rituals.

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Phoenix police are continuing to hunt for the murderer of a 28-year-old priest who was shot and killed inside the rectory of the Mother of Mercy Mission in Phoenix on Wednesday night.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

While the Vatican claims it does not yet affect Catholic churches, a new law passed by the Danish parliament will force all churches to conduct gay marriages on their premises; priests can refuse to conduct the ceremonies, but they cannot stop them from taking place in their sanctuaries.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The headlines have been screaming for days - St. Louis Archbishop Didn't Know Sex With Children was Crime - but the discerning Catholic should realize by now that the same Catholic-bashing news outlets that wrongly accused the Sisters of Bon Secours for dumping 800 babies in a septic tank in Ireland probably got this story wrong too.

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While the Obama Administration continues to ignore the humanitarian crisis occurring on the U.S. southern border, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it will provide a $350 million grant opportunity to anyone willing to provide shelter and "family planning services" to the thousands of "unaccompanied alien children" (UACs) who are pouring into the country at unprecedented rates.

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If a pending appeal in the case of the imprisoned Sudanese doctor, Meriam Ibrahim, is not successful, she will soon have to endure 100 lashes - which are designed to literally take skin off the body - as punishment for trumped up adultery charges.

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Two of the latest examples of just how low the nation's sex ed establishment is willing to stoop occurred within the last week with one school making 14 year-old girls confess publicly to how far they are willing to go sexually, while another program showed images to middle schoolers that were so raunchy we can't even describe them in this post!

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