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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The Archbishop of San Francisco has shown that he's not about to cave to political pressure from gay activists or left-leaning politicians and has sent an unequivocal response to a letter sent to him by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D) asking him not to participate in this week's pro-marriage March in Washington DC.

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A 54 year-old ex-convict has been arrested on suspicion of murdering 28 year-old Rev. Kenneth Walker on June 11 and seriously injuring Father Joseph Terra at a Mission church in South Phoenix.

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Although experts can't say for sure why it's happening, the Church in Spain has been undergoing a remarkable revival in recent years, including a jump in Mass attendance, new abortion restrictions and even a famous model who gave up the runway for a cloister.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The faithful are expressing their outrage this morning after learning that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a long-time advocate of abortion and same-sex marriage, has written a letter to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone asking him not to attend the upcoming March for Marriage in Washington, DC.

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The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, Amel Shamon Nona, has fled the Iraqi city of Mosul along with the vast majority of the 1,200 Christian families who were left in the city after it fell into the hands of revels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) late last week.

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A new poll has found that fathers across America are tired of being portrayed in the media as "disconnected, bumbling and incompetent" and sparked the creation of a moving ad that depicts fathers in a much more realistic - and deserving - way.

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A Long Island health care company is being sued by three employees who allege that they were fired for not participating in a religion known as "Onionhead" which required workers to embrace a belief system of "harnessing happiness" and engage in bizarre rituals.

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Phoenix police are continuing to hunt for the murderer of a 28-year-old priest who was shot and killed inside the rectory of the Mother of Mercy Mission in Phoenix on Wednesday night.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

While the Vatican claims it does not yet affect Catholic churches, a new law passed by the Danish parliament will force all churches to conduct gay marriages on their premises; priests can refuse to conduct the ceremonies, but they cannot stop them from taking place in their sanctuaries.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The headlines have been screaming for days - St. Louis Archbishop Didn't Know Sex With Children was Crime - but the discerning Catholic should realize by now that the same Catholic-bashing news outlets that wrongly accused the Sisters of Bon Secours for dumping 800 babies in a septic tank in Ireland probably got this story wrong too.

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