Women of Grace
® and other concerned lay groups have cause to rejoice as news breaks that the U.S. bishops have heard their concerns and released a new FAQ paper on the controversial Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that acknowledges the “growing concerns about the effect of these standards on Catholic schools in our country.”
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Abby Johnson
According to pro-life activist Abby Johnson, a 15 year-old pregnant teen was locked in a room at an abortion clinic and police had to be called to set her free.
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The husband of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the pregnant Sudanese Catholic who has been sentenced to death for apostasy, says the US State Department has done little to help him and is left with nothing more he can do "but pray" for the release of his wife.
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Police in Nassau County, Long Island are reporting that a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at a Knights of Columbus building was left toppled and decapitated.
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The Ordination Class of 2014 is slightly younger than last year with most men having a median age of 32 and a majority being graduates of Catholic schools.
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The nation's largest media watchdog has started a petition drive to demand an end to the mainstream media blackout of new developments in the IRS scandal that targeted Christians and conservatives and pro-life groups.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The disconnect between Hollywood and mainstream America is glaringly obvious in the latest reviews for the new Christian comedy, Mom's Night Out, which fans are raving about but critics are calling "depressingly regressive and borderline dangerous."
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According to a national medial watchdog group, McDonald's, Kohl's, Sears and Target are among the companies who are sponsoring some of the raunchiest shows on television today.
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Although the Vatican has not yet confirmed if the pope will attend next year's World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, speculation was heightened this week when Vatican officials arrived to check out the city in advance of what could be the pope's first visit to the U.S. - a visit that will focus on the very thing the "thought police" forbid us to talk openly about - the traditional family.
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In a brilliant expose appearing in the latest issue of
L'Osservatore Romano, Sister Sara Butler of the International Theological Commission uses Church teaching on the complementarity of men and women to counter typical feminist arguments.
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