
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
An Italian journalist looking for a “gotcha moment” is receiving reprimands from authorities in both the Church and the Italian media for pretending to be a penitent seeking absolution for sins such as cohabitation and being a lesbian mother, then publishing the priests’ responses.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSBecause only a handful of students turned out for the March 12 protest against San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s new teacher’s contract, the media used footage from an earlier protest to make it look as if even the students are against the idea of preserving the Catholic identity in Catholic high schools.
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In the midst of the celebration for the second anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Francis announced a Jubilee Year of Mercy to commence on December 8, 2015 and end on the Solemnity of Christ the King in 2016.
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A former NFL player diagnosed eight years ago with the crippling disease, ALS, is speaking out against a deeply flawed physician-assisted suicide bill being considered by lawmakers in the state of Maryland.
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The superintendent of a Texas school district is receiving accolades around the country today for courageously defying an atheist group by refusing to cave to their demands.
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WASHINGTON — Child advocates are raising the alarm over a new interactive Barbie doll that will record a child’s voice and upload the information to a cloud server where toy companies can “eavesdrop” upon the conversation and acquire more information about a child than many parents may want.
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After 379 corporations submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage, the nation’s leading Catholic school watchdog is calling upon all schools to refuse to honor representatives of these corporations.
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Known as the
Collecta pro Terra Sancta, the collection taken every year on Good Friday to assist the faithful in the Holy Land has never been so important as Catholics around the world will be given an opportunity to help relieve the desperate needs of Christians whose suffering at the hands of Islamic terrorists has reached crisis proportions.
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Four police officers say they will be forever haunted by the sound of a mysterious female voice calling out for “help” that led them to a car wreck in which they found a young mother lying dead on the front seat and an 18 month-old daughter still alive in her car seat.
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A California company is developing a new procedure, known as xenotransplantation, which involves the removal of organs from aborted babies and transplanting them into rats where they can be grown and later harvested for use in humans.
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