Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter on Friday to all U.S. bishops of the United States reasserting the conviction of the Catholic Church that it will not yield to the Obama administration’s command to provide free birth control insurance to its employees, but not one of the major news outlets covered the story.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe travesty surrounding the testimony of a Georgetown law student who claims she'll go broke if the government doesn't mandate free birth control continues as a background check reveals she's actually a reproductive rights activist who enrolled at the Catholic university with every intention of challenging it's contraceptive-free insurance policy.
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Robert Moorman, who was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his own mother, receiving Communion just before being executed on Wednesday morning, and told the Deacon he would "repeat Jesus' name in my heart" as he was being put to death.
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In a narrow 51-48 vote, liberal members of the U.S. Senate voted to table an amendment proposed by Missouri Senator Roy Blunt (R) that would have provided conscience protection for religious employers in the HHS contraception mandate.
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As the Obama administration works with union bosses and dissident Catholic leaders to work out another "compromise" on the HHS mandate, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the bishops' attempts to work with the White House are "going nowhere."
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Just a day after reporting on a lesbian who is demanding the removal of a priest who refused her communion, we now learn that a man claiming to be the hairdresser for New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez's has refused to do her hair anymore because of her support for traditional marriage.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A lesbian in the state of Maryland who was denied communion at the funeral Mass for her mother is now demanding that the priest be removed from ministry because he refused to give her communion.
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A critical vote will be taken today on the "Respect for the Rights of Conscience Act of 2011" which could be tabled and never reach the Senate floor for a vote.
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The country's top conservative leaders are demanding an apology from Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington for publishing an outrageous column that refers to Catholics as pedophiles and attacks the Eucharist as a "barbaric ritual."
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Instead of convincing the public that women need mandated birth control coverage, Nancy Pelosi's unofficial hearing featuring a promiscuous Georgetown law student is causing even more controversy than the mandate.
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