While celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany yesterday, Pope Francis encouraged the faithful to develop a "holy cunning" - a spiritual shrewdness that will help them discern danger, steer them toward the good and help them avoid living a mediocre life.
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A new grassroots campaign is underway to allow people to give an aborted child the dignity of a name and allow them - and the world - to honor them in a fitting way.
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An organization devoted to helping embattled Christians around the world says persecution is expected to continue to rise in 2014 unless world governments do more to stop it.
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The legal recognition of alternative "families" in today's world continues unabated with a Manhattan judge ruling that two people who are not romantically involved and don't even live together can adopt a child.
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A host of new glitches are arising now that the controversial Affordable Care Act has gone into effect with one of the most outrageous involving new parents who are being told the systems automated feature enabling them to add a new baby to their policy will be "available later."
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They're back - those useless 2014 horoscope predictions that somehow manage to garner millions of readers.
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A new study conducted by researchers in India found that women who were long-term users of oral contraceptives were almost 10 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not use the pill.
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Police in Eureka, California have arrested a suspect in the murder of the beloved pastor of St. Bernard's Church who was found murdered in the parish rectory on New Year's morning.
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If you're looking to lose weight this year, do it the old-fashioned way - with a healthy diet and exercise - and stay away from herbal weight loss products and body-building formulas that new research has found to be linked to severe liver damage.
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Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has asked President Obama to temporarily exempt religious institutions from crippling fines if their insurance plans exclude sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and contraceptives.
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While celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany yesterday, Pope Francis encouraged the faithful to develop a "holy cunning" - a spiritual shrewdness that will help them discern danger, steer them toward the good and help them avoid living a mediocre life.
