It was a dark day in Oklahoma on Monday when a contractor removed a controversial monument of the Ten Commandments from the Oklahoma Capitol grounds, a job which was performed under the cover of darkness to avoid confrontation.
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The same judge who ordered a temporary restraining order on The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), forbidding the organization to release any more videos about the trafficking of fetal baby parts, has ruled that all unedited videos can be turned over to Congress.
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In a shocking new video released during an episode of The Blaze TV, David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress released never-before-seen footage of an abortionist discussing how to manipulate the procedure in order to procure more intact organs.
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In today’s press briefing, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, S.J., said the Synod Fathers are continuing the work begun last year and reiterated that Catholic doctrine on marriage will not be called into question.
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During the first press conference regarding the opening sessions of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, Archbishop Bruno Forte said no doctrinal changes in Church teaching will come about as a result of this synod because it is about addressing the Church’s pastoral approach to family issues, not changing the Church’s positions.
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If you haven’t already done so, Catholics around the world are being urged to “adopt a synod father” for whom they are encouraged to pray and fast during this critical gathering in Rome.
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A little boy born last year with microhydranencephaly, a rare condition that results in incomplete brain formation, just celebrated his first birthday leaving his doctors stunned and his parents ecstatic.
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Pope Francis has opened the long-awaited Synod of Bishops on the Family with the same message he has been preaching for the last year – God’s idea of marriage is that of a man and a woman and is meant to last forever.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE AT END OF BLOG!
California’s Governor Jerry Brownhas until Wednesday of this week - the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary - to determine whether or not California will join the small group of states that allow physician assisted suicide by signing into law a bill that was passed during an extraordinary legislative process that has many crying foul.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Eyewitnesses to the killing of nine innocent people at a community college in rural Oregon say the gunman specifically targeted Christians and was known to be disdainful of organized religion which raises the question of just how much this killer was influenced by the politically correct "hate speech" routinely aimed at Christians in today's America.
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