The Little Sisters of the Poor, along with the Christian Brothers, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking relief from the birth control mandate that will force them to violate their religious convictions.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says it was the positive influence of the Catholic sisters who taught him as a child for reinforcing him in a positive way.
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Vatican Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi believes Jesus Christ was the world's first tweeter because of how much He could say in so few words.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The media have been using the 1998 murder of a homosexual man named Matthew Shepard as a cudgel to bludgeon the public about the horror of "gay hate crimes" so it should come as no surprise that they are completely ignoring a book by an investigative journalist - who is also a homosexual - which provides evidence that Shepard's death was related to drugs, not his sexual orientation.
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Philadelphia's notorious abortionist, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, says he's not a monster and feels "spiritually innocent" of murdering newborn infants, citing the "strong Catholic presence" in the homicide division of the district attorney's office for bringing about his grim fate.
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New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond is mandating that by 2014-2015, all Catholic schools in the diocese must stop scheduling events on Sundays in order to allow families to reclaim this day for God and family.
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The famous infomercial king, Kevin Trudeau, whose products have scammed the public out of billions of dollars, was tossed in jail this week after failing to pay a $38 million fine he receive for misleading people in his ads.
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The War-on-Women-loving media loves to trumpet the fact that more women are working now than ever before, but what they're not telling us is that a whopping 60 percent of this increase in female employment is for jobs paying less thanĀ $10.10 per hour.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Angry parents have banded together to force a statewide vote on a new California law that will enable students to access whatever school bath or locker room that conforms to their "gender identity", regardless of the impact on other students.
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Pope Francis addressed a group of Catholic medical professionals and implored them to reject the "culture of waste" that is eliminating so many human beings and to embrace the culture of life no matter what the personal cost.
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