The University of California in San Francisco is launching the first-ever online abortion course mean to educate students on the various types of abortion in order to help them to "take steps in their communities to increase access to safe abortion and decrease stigma about abortion."
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A 29 year-old newlywed who is dying of terminal brain cancer has decided to move to Oregon where she can end her life on her own terms and has vowed to devote the rest of her days on earth to fighting for the right of all Americans to access assisted suicide.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA Christian business owner has been ordered into a "diversity training" (read re-education) program for refusing to produce t-shirts for a gay pride parade.
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Married couples from the United States and Australia addressed the Synod of Bishops on Monday and offered an intimate glimpse of how average Catholics view Church teaching on the subject of marriage and the family.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Laboratories around the world are working on strange new forms of assisted reproductive technologies aimed at treating infertility no matter what the cost to human dignity.
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A new national survey of Christian men reveals shocking statistics pertaining to high rates of pornography use and addiction, plus rampant sexual infidelity amongst married Christian men.
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In a decision that shocked court-watchers and delighted same-sex marriage advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review lower court rulings arising from challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage which will clear the way for same-sex marriages in at least five more states.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann,OCDS
Pope Francis convened the much-anticipated Extraordinary Synod on the Family in Rome yesterday and called upon attendees to keep their eyes on Christ and not use the Synod as a means "to discuss beautiful and clever ideas" - many of which are achieving enormous exposure in the secular press - but to follow the Spirit's guidance in order to “better nurture and tend to the Lord’s vineyard.”
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A new study has found that girls as young as seven learn how to dislike their bodies by hearing their mothers complain about looking "fat" or "old".
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The Community of Franciscan Fiars of the Renewal (CFR) have announced that their co-founder, Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, beloved priest and preacher, died on October 3, 2014, the vigil of the Feast of St. Francis, after complications with an ongoing illness. He was 81.
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The University of California in San Francisco is launching the first-ever online abortion course mean to educate students on the various types of abortion in order to help them to "take steps in their communities to increase access to safe abortion and decrease stigma about abortion."
