The popular Home and Garden TV channel (HGTV) is the latest network under fire after cancelling a show hosted by major league baseball players, David and Jason Benham, simply because they subscribe to the Christian faith.
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More than 350 big-hearted volunteers from Memphis-are churches banded together to host the first annual Joy Prom for people with special needs to give them an opportunity to experience a beloved high school tradition.
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Even as the Vatican and heads of state from numerous countries were calling for the swift return of 234 kidnapped girls in Nigeria, the terrorist group responsible kidnapped yet another eight Christian girls.
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The Archdiocese of Boston is joining its voice to the growing outrage over a black mass scheduled to take place at Harvard's Queen's Head Pub, an event the University is calling "cultural" and the Temple is now saying won't include a consecrated host - but will include "invectives against Christ" during the mass.
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Lawmakers in New York were once again blocked from passing a radical new abortion law that would have greatly expanded abortion in the state and allowed abortions to be performed by any "qualified, licensed healthcare practitioner."
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The first openly gay Episcopal bishop in the U.S., Gene Robinson, whose ordination caused a split in the global Anglican community, has announced that he and his partner of 25 years are divorcing.
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Cardinal Gerhard Muller
When the dissenting sisters who comprise the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR) recently honored a nun whose books were sanctioned by the U.S. Bishops, the Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) appears to have run out of patience.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSUPDATE: 5/7/14: Priya Dua of the Satanic Temple just contacted us to say that she made a mistake and there will NOT be a consecrated host used at the mass. Also, Harvard has published a statement confirming that this "cultural" event will take place.
The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club is allegedly hosting a black mass on May 12 to be staged by The Satanic Temple and which will include a consecrated host.
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Some of Detroit's most iconic and historic Catholic churches, where the pews are barely filled every week, are receiving a much-needed boost from a new Mass Mob organization that is using Facebook and word-of-mouth to arrange for a big boost in Sunday Mass attendance.
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Even though legal battles are still raging around a new abortion law in Texas, the law's sweeping new regulations are expected to shutter all but six of the state's 20 existing abortion facilities.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Even though legal battles are still raging around a new abortion law in Texas, the law's sweeping new regulations are expected to shutter all but six of the state's 20 existing abortion facilities.
