Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn what some are calling a “stunning show of political indecorum”, President Barack Obama has invited several individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching to greet Pope Francis when he visits the White House next week.
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In the final days before he departs for his much anticipated North American voyage, Pope Francis is asking the faithful around the world to accompany him with prayer.
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After suffering some of the worst persecution in modern history, Iraqi Christians who resettled in and around the Detroit, Michigan area breathed a sigh of relief when the local planning commission voted 9-0 to reject the building a huge mosque in the middle of their neighborhood.
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The tenth video in the explosive documentary web series by The Center for Medical Progress reveals several top level Planned Parenthood executives discussing the secretive practices surrounding aborted fetal parts harvesting and how happy they are to provide whatever body parts are being sought – from eyes to neural to gonads – and “everything we provide is fresh!”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The lies about the services provided by Planned Parenthood are so deeply imbued in the nation’s consciousness that not even a contestant at the Miss America pageant was able to accurately answer a question about their federal funding.
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A professor’s attempt to prohibit students from saying “God bless you” whenever someone sneezes in class has caused such an uproar he has been forced to remove the ban from his class syllabus.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has sent a letter to a Catholic hospital in Michigan demanding that they perform a tubal ligation on a young woman with a benign brain tumor who is 34 weeks pregnant and whose doctors are recommending that she be sterilized to prevent any more pregnancies.
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Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (D)
Kim Davis, the Christian clerk who made global headlines for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses in Rowan County, Kentucky, returns to work today but only after asking an appeals court to allow her to continue to refuse issuing the licenses until her case is settled.
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A new petition drive is underway in which the faithful are asking the Church to consider the great “Secretary of Mercy”, St. Faustina Kowalska, as the next Doctor of the Church.
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A 21 year-old woman born with Pfeiffer syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the growth of facial bones, has a strong message for young women about what constitutes real beauty.
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