During his annual foreign policy address to Vatican-based ambassadors, Pope Francis called for a united response from the international community against the kind of terrorism that inspired the killings of 17 people in Paris last week, saying the attackers were enslaved by “deviant forms of religion”.
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More than three million people took to the streets in France yesterday in a rally for unity that was said to rival the response to the liberation of France after World War II with locals pouring into the streets to express their intention to unite and defend itself against the terrorism that left 17 people dead in Paris last week.
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Shortly after a judge opened the doors to same-sex marriage in Florida, Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski issued a letter to the more than 8,000 diocesan employees warning them not to publicly support the unions or risk losing their jobs.
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Another deadly terrorist attack on France has left at least two people dead in an on-going hostage situation in an East Paris kosher market. This second attack comes as police surround a printing company near Charles de Gaulle airport where the two suspects from Wednesday’s attack are reportedly holed up with at least one hostage.
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Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George is asking for prayers after dropping out of an experimental drug program that was supposed to help his body to recognize and attack the cancer that has been plaguing him for several years.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new and largely pro-life Congress is ready for battle with two lawmakers introducing a law that will ban abortion on babies 20 weeks or older to prevent fetal pain.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
With the suspects of yesterday’s deadly terrorist attack on a French magazine still on the loose, experts around the world are asking the question – will France finally confront its increasingly threatening Muslim population?
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Authorities in the city of Atlanta are under fire today after dismissing their popular fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, because of statements he made about homosexuality in a book he recently self-published.
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Pope Francis dedicated the first Wednesday morning catechesis of 2015 to a teaching about the importance of mothers in both the family and the Christian community.
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Paris police say masked gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” stormed the offices of the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and gunned down 12 people in retaliation for publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
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During his annual foreign policy address to Vatican-based ambassadors, Pope Francis called for a united response from the international community against the kind of terrorism that inspired the killings of 17 people in Paris last week, saying the attackers were enslaved by “deviant forms of religion”.
