Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In a typical sleight of hand, the Administration that has caused the most serious threats to religious liberty in U.S. history, decided to issue a proclamation naming January 16 as Religious Freedom Day, an event that received so little fanfare almost no one knows it even happened.
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The European Court of Human Rights handed down its decision on four critical religious freedom cases, exonerating one Christian but dismissing the other three claims.
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An ever increasing number of college women are choosing to foot their steep tuition bills by hiring themselves out to "Sugar Daddies" who give them enough to cover tuition and living expenses.
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A successful petition drive by a furious public has succeeded in shutting down plans by Oprah Winfrey's
Oxygen Network to air a new reality show about a man who had 11 children with 10 different women.
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On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, organizers are expecting the largest crowd ever for the annual March for Life, which could eclipse the numbers expected to converge on Washington DC for the presidential inauguration.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is inviting the faithful to join together in "Nine Days of Prayer, Penance, and Pilgrimage" which will take place January 19-27.
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A new report has found that one in 25 teenagers in the US has attempted suicide and one in eight has thought about it.
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The first crime that could be associated with the publication of an interactive map of gun owners names and addresses by
The Journal News of New York took place this weekend when the residence of a gun owner in White Plains was burglarized by thieves whose aim appeared to be the safe where the family's gun was stored.
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Two 45 year-old twins who were born deaf were permitted to be euthanized by lethal injection under Belgium law after they discovered that they had glaucoma and would soon to go blind.
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The UK press is calling a letter protesting same-sex marriage that was signed by almost a quarter of the country's clergy as constituting one of the biggest movements against the redefinition of marriage since the Reformation.
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