While welcoming hundreds of people who suffer from a rare degenerative neurological condition known as Huntington’s Disease in the Paul VI Hall last week, Pope Francis pleaded with scientists searching for cures not to contribute to the “throw away culture” by using, and then destroying, human embryos.
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The mother of a student attending Clay High School in Clay County, Florida says a teacher gave her son the idea of watching the controversial film, 13 Reasons Why, which contributed to some of his mental health disorders.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A protest is evolving against a new movie, The Little Hours, which is a so-called American “comedy" based on the story of a servant boy who takes shelter in a very dysfunctional convent where the nuns outdo one another in their haste to seduce him.
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Even though too many associate natural fertility methods of family planning to be akin to the old “rhythm method,” today’s methods are 95 to 99 percent effective in achieving and/or preventing pregnancy and women are looking for alternatives to risky pills and IUDs – so why aren’t they getting the information they need?
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Just after returning from his brief pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Pope Francis reflected on the experience, saying that while visiting the site of the apparitions, he felt immersed in the prayer of the faithful “that for one hundred years has flowed there like a river.”
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Although the report has not yet been made public, Church officials charged with investigating the validity of the apparitions at Medjugorje have apparently decided that the first seven apparitions were authentic, but succeeding visions are suspect.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
President Donald Trump has expanded the Mexico City Policy, an executive order that prevents groups from providing abortion overseas with US aid money, and is now applying the order to all foreign global health assistance.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The blatantly anti-Catholic ABC series, The Real O’Neals, has been cancelled and will not be returning for a third season.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new book by psychologist and body image researcher Renee Engeln says we all need to spend less time talking about beauty in order to “put it in its place” behind other more important matters – and mothers, grandmothers and aunts need to quit complaining about their bodies in front of young women!
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The Centers for Disease Control is reporting that more than nine out of 10 new HIV cases in the United States among young men and boys between the ages of 13 to 24 is occurring in those identifying as homosexuals and bisexuals.
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