Advocates of assisted suicide hoped the high profile suicide of a 29 year-old brain cancer victim named Brittany Maynard last fall would revive efforts to make assisted suicide legal across the country, but measures introduced in four states have already stalled due to lack of support.
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A Nigerian bishop claims to have been told by Christ in a vision that the way to rid his nation of the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, is to pray the Rosary.
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A woman who was six-months pregnant was shot and killed by her boyfriend on April 19, but used the last of her strength to dial 9-1-1 and tell a dispatcher where she was in order to save her unborn daughter’s life.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A lesbian couple from Canada is suing the parent company of a local sperm bank for allegedly misrepresenting the donor whose sperm they used to produce a child, saying they were told he was a highly educated engineer but who was later discovered to be a schizophrenic criminal.
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Cardinal Francis George, the “hometown Chicagoan” who oversaw one of the largest flocks in the U.S. succumbed to cancer on Friday, slipping peacefully into eternity while surrounded by loved ones.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSOfficials at John Hopkins University have decided to reverse a decision banning a pro-life display at its Spring Fair simply because it included models of fetal development which they deemed "disturbing".
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSDuring the last election, it was the phony “war on women”. This time around there’s going to be another fabricated women’s issue called the "gender pay gap".
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A new campaign of support for persecuted Christians may soon find Catholic churches across America filled with parishioners sporting the color of modern martyrdom – orange.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSParents of students at a Wisconsin High School are up-in-arms after a teacher gave students an assignment that required them to pretend they were Muslim and then write five paragraphs about the experience.
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Continuing his catechesis on the family, Pope Francis dedicated this morning's general audience to the complementarity between man and woman, saying that a failed alliance between men and woman “makes our emotional life arid and obscures the heaven of hope.”
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Advocates of assisted suicide hoped the high profile suicide of a 29 year-old brain cancer victim named Brittany Maynard last fall would revive efforts to make assisted suicide legal across the country, but measures introduced in four states have already stalled due to lack of support.
