
Father Nicholas Gruner, the controversial head of the Fatima Center, died of an apparent heart attack in his office on April 29 and will be buried in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, May 9.
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Even though politics may be “dirty”, frustrating and fraught with failure, Catholics need to “get right in there” and become involved, says Pope Francis, even though some may consider it to be a “form of martyrdom”.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
While Hollywood and the mainstream media are all abuzz about Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner’s announcement that he wants to live as a woman, a man who has “been there done that” says sex change surgery isn’t the answer.
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Judging by the answers to a questionnaire on family matters which was sent to dioceses around the world by the Synod of Bishops, the Church in Germany is struggling to understand and accept basic Catholic moral teaching.
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Messages sent via Twitter in the aftermath of a shooting that took place at a Mohammed cartoon event in Garland, Texas indicate a possible connection to the Islamic terrorist group, ISIS, along with the threat “we will come to your streets with death and slaughter!"
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A gutsy Italian journalist is taking her colleagues to task and asking some hard questions about their blatant ignorance of one of the bloodiest persecutions of Christians in recent times.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
There's a huge price to pay for not knowing our history but you'd never know that by the latest test scores of eighth graders of whom only a quarter were aware that Americans consider the United States to be a democracy!
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With the ink still drying on transcripts of yesterday’s arguments for and against same-sex marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court, opponents of allowing the unions are assessing, and preparing for, the damage that could be done if the Justices make gay “marriage” the law of the land.
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The Nigerian military has confirmed that they successfully freed nearly 300 women and girls in an offensive yesterday against the Boko Haram stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, but none of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago appear to be among the rescued.
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Today’s long awaited arguments for and against same-sex marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court saw the Justices asking pointed questions of each side, leaving it difficult to predict which way the Court will decide on one of the most controversial issues of our time.
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