Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had a sobering message for the media on Tuesday about the country’s staggering opioid epidemic – it’s getting worse - and drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50.
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Vice President Mike Pence, who refers to himself as a “born-again Evangelical-Catholic” gave an inspiring and upbeat address at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast yesterday saying that “life is winning” in the U.S. and that the new administration is committed to protecting religious freedom.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
While most of the world hails the blockbuster movie, Wonder Woman, as a new box-office record for a film directed by a woman, the devoted mother who starred in the movie and who was five months pregnant while filming parts of it is a stark reminder to all of us that embracing authentic femininity can put the heroine in all of us.
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The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has issued new “enhanced” policies which are aimed at promoting homosexuality and transgenderism among youth and say that they “will not tolerate” anyone who is not supportive of children’s “right to self-determination of sexual/gender identity.”
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The Church in Italy suffered yet another blow in the past week when a thief posing as a pilgrim stole part of the brain of St. John Bosco that was housed in a reliquary in a church near Turin.
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The faithful from around the world are once again offering prayers of support and comfort to the British people who suffered yet another terrorist attack on Saturday night that took the lives of seven innocent people.
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When a priest in Italy discovered blasphemous graffiti on the wall of his church, he responded to the vandals with an open letter on Facebook which has gone viral.
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Fatima Shrine at Malvern Retreat Center
Women of Grace is returning to Malvern, Pennsylvania for its annual retreat and this one is bound to be even more powerful than usual because we will be celebrating a quintessential moment in the history of the Church – the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In an age when children as young as eleven are easily encountering misbehavior on line, parenting expert Katharine Hill, the UK director of the Care for the Family charity, discusses eight key tips to keeping kids safe on line. sometimes the problem is that we as parents don't think that the internet can harm our kids, it is silly to see how it is normal for us to worry about the safety of our kids when going to school, getting in their car and using their high back booster seat, but still we have no clue of what the internet can do.
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It’s a custom in Italy during the Eastern season for a parish priest to travel door-to-door blessing homes. But in this Rome suburb, a very unexpected priest showed up to perform the annual ritual – Pope Francis!
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