Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The disconnect between Hollywood and mainstream America is glaringly obvious in the latest reviews for the new Christian comedy, Mom's Night Out, which fans are raving about but critics are calling "depressingly regressive and borderline dangerous."
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According to a national medial watchdog group, McDonald's, Kohl's, Sears and Target are among the companies who are sponsoring some of the raunchiest shows on television today.
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Although the Vatican has not yet confirmed if the pope will attend next year's World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, speculation was heightened this week when Vatican officials arrived to check out the city in advance of what could be the pope's first visit to the U.S. - a visit that will focus on the very thing the "thought police" forbid us to talk openly about - the traditional family.
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In a brilliant expose appearing in the latest issue of
L'Osservatore Romano, Sister Sara Butler of the International Theological Commission uses Church teaching on the complementarity of men and women to counter typical feminist arguments.
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Speakers at the 10th National Catholic Prayer Breakfast are warning that the days of "comfortable Catholicism" are gone and the time has come to do battle with powerful new social currents that will make life tough for believers.
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As the death toll continues to mount in what some are calling the worst mining disaster in the history of Turkey, Pope Francis is inviting the faithful to pray for the miners who have died and those who are still trapped in the crippled mine.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A writer on a liberal website is lamenting the days when women were forced by a misogynistic society to use Lysol as birth control but neglects to mention that the same society is now pumping them full of Class 1 carcinogens instead.
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Despite news of a last-minute cancellation of a black mass scheduled to take place in Harvard's Queens Head Pub last night, the university's newspaper is reporting that a mass did take place around 10:00 p.m. in the lounge of an off-campus restaurant.
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Last minute efforts continue to stop the black mass re-enactment scheduled to take place tonight at Harvard. The latest attempt is a letter from the former president of the Catholic Student Association which was delivered along with 60,000 signatures to Harvard President Drew Faust.
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A new video released by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria appears to show more than 100 of the Christian schoolgirls clothed in Muslim hijabs and praying to Allah.
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