While speaking at a prayer breakfast in Washington on Tuesday, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, said attacks on the family, including the forcing of same-sex marriage and transgender bathroom laws on society, are “demonic.”
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In a
statement issued in response to the government’s controversial “guidance” to schools on the use of bathrooms by transgenders, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling the move “deeply disturbing.”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Here we go again. A same-sex couple in the Archdiocese of Louisville is accusing the Catholic Church of discriminating against them because they will not be permitted to erect a headstone in a Catholic cemetery that celebrates same-sex marriage.
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Leaders in at least a dozen states are refusing to implement guidelines from the federal government which threaten to withhold federal funding for schools that refuse to allow students to use the bath/locker room that corresponds to their gender identity.
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When it comes to publicized polls that supposedly show Americans in favor of allowing men and women to use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender they identify with – don’t believe everything you hear.
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Couples who opt to have children in Italy stand to benefit financially as the country’s health minister has called for doubling the monthly rate currently paid for the birth of a child with even more money promised for second and subsequent children.
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In a move that is considered to be a win for religious employers in the U.S., the Supreme Court has decided not to rule on the government’s controversial birth control mandate as it pertains to religious institutions and has sent the dispute back to the lower courts for resolution.
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TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says his state will not yield to “blackmail” from the Obama Administration after it issued a directive on Friday - the same day that an 8 year-old Chicago girl was nearly choked to death by a man in a ladies' room - that all public schools in the country must allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.
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The recent case of two students at George Mason University who sent explicit videos to someone who then blackmailed them into sending money has drawn new attention to a crime that is becoming a significant threat to children.
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St. Phoebe, 1st Century Deaconess
During discussions with 900 heads of female religious orders yesterday, Pope Francis indicated his desire to set up a commission to study the possibility of reinstating female deacons.
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