Officials at the Monessen School District in Pennsylvania are investigating how eighth grade students were given graphic word puzzles that were based on the
Fifty Shades of Grey movie.
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The family of slain American hostage, Kayla Mueller, 26, have released a letter she wrote to her family in the spring of 2014 which reveals her intense struggle against the darkness of despair, the depth of her love for her family, and the brilliance of her faith in God.
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Plans to detonate a bomb as the papal convoy drove through Manila on January 18 were foiled when police discovered the plot and secretly re-routed the pope’s motorcade.
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Even though the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to allow same-sex couples in Alabama to marry in spite of a voter approved ban on the practice, the state’s chief justice ordered all state judges to refuse to do so – and most of them are complying!
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While addressing members of a plenary assembly on women in Rome on Saturday, Pope Francis said the time to rise to the challenge of finding new ways for women to be full participants in both social and ecclesial life “can no longer be postponed.”
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As the Valentine’s Day premier of the violent sado-masochistic film,
Fifty Shades of Grey nears, tens of thousands of Americans have joined a growing coalition of groups that are accusing
NBC Universal of “using a romantic holiday to promote a movie about abuse and degradation."
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Doctors fighting to resuscitate a 14 year-old drowning victim say the boy’s heart mysteriously started beating again just seconds after his mother invoked the Holy Spirit.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Pope Francis’ prayerful greeting at yesterday’s prayer breakfast is being drowned out by a national outcry against President Barack Obama for using inaccurate historical accounts of the Inquisition and the Crusades in an attempt to put Christian violence in the name of religion on the same footing as the atrocities being committed by Islamic extremists such as ISIS and al Qaeda.
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Pope Francis has accepted an invitation from U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to address a joint session of Congress during his upcoming visit to the U.S.
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If you have friends or family who have fallen for the so-called “romance” in the sexually violent book and upcoming film,
Fifty Shades of Grey, this new website provides useful talking points as well as more appropriate ways to fight violence against women in our world today.
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