At the end of a Mass celebrated to mark the opening of a new academic year at the Catholic University of America, Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl delivered a powerful condemnation of the horrendous persecution of Christians taking place in the world today and the worldwide silence that is accompanying it.
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The media is in the midst of a mad scramble to avoid reporting the truth about a new and highly prestigious scientific study which found that women who use birth control pills are twice as likely as non-users to develop cancer.
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An Ohio school was placed on lockdown this week after it received a call from a man with a "heavy accent" who threatened to kill the children in response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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One of the big news stories this week is about how the government has just enlisted members of academia to begin to "police" online opinion for possible "misinformation", but a new study has found that people are not as anxious to share their views on-line as most of us believe.
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Lawyers representing a Tennessee school student who was suspended for saying "God bless you" after a fellow student sneezed in class are demanding that the school not only exonerate the student, but to publicly apologize to her and change their unconstitutional rules.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In a sick play on the #IceBucketChallenge for ALS, abortion supporters at RH Reality Check launched their own meme - #TacoorBeerChallenge" - to raise money for abortion.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Officials are now investigating the health of 30 children who were born more than a decade ago via a controversial process that has since been banned because it relied on using genes from three "parents".
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More than a dozen priests concelebrated a memorial Mass for slain journalist Jim Foley on Sunday in the family's parish church in New Hampshire where a message of condolence from Pope Francis was read.
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Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and other religious leaders have expressed disappointment with the revisions made to the birth control mandate that still do not protect the consciences of those who object to this coverage on religious grounds.
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The former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital says that transgenderism is a mental disorder, that sex change is "biologically impossible" and that people who promote sex change surgery are promoting a mental disorder.
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One of the big news stories this week is about how the government has just enlisted members of academia to begin to "police" online opinion for possible "misinformation", but a new study has found that people are not as anxious to share their views on-line as most of us believe.