
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A courageous family court judge in Kentucky recently released an order stating that he won’t be hearing adoption cases involving same-sex couples because he believes these adoptions are never in the best interests of the child.
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News broke over the weekend that the radical Islamist group, Boko Haram, has released 82 of the 276 female students who were abducted from a secondary school in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014.
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The dwindling respect for human life reached a new low this week with the announcement that a jewelry company is now fashioning pendants out of the ashes of “leftover” embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics.
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Another teen attempted to kill herself on Facebook on Tuesday night but was saved just in time after viewers – and
Facebook – alerted authorities.
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Today is National Star Wars Day and many of the film’s fans will be offering the movie’s famous greeting ,“May the force be with you,” or its pun for the day, “May the fourth be with you.” Judging by world conditions and the strife that abounds both at home and abroad, we could use some force and power to bring relief, order, and justice to our beleaguered globe.
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The National Day of Prayer was the perfect backdrop for the signing of the Trump Administration’s Religious Liberty Executive Order except that the order itself has disappointed both sides of the debate.
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A 20 year-old Mexican woman who was recently crowned as a beauty queen in her native town has decided to give it all up for the religious life.
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On May 12, 2017, the United Nations World Apostolate of Fatima Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be carried into Conference Room 2 at the UN for a two-hour event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima. What most people don’t know is that she’s been here before – in 1952 – and she has been orchestrating a return journey ever since.
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A new form of physical and emotional abuse of women is winding its way into the already twisted world of casual sex – stealthing – which is the practice of deliberately removing a condom during intercourse even though both partners agreed to use one, and then bragging about it online.
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