Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The pro-contraception lobby is continuing to present alleged victims of the Church's fight over the government's plan to force them to offer insurance that covers birth control, with the latest being a nurse in a Catholic hospital who claims she plans to stay on her parent's insurance policy because her birth control is too expensive and her health plan doesn't cover it.
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During a recent interview, the head of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed the way it mocks Jesus.
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In spite of the fury that surrounded the announcement of the anti-Christian sitcom,
Good Christian Bi----s, ABC only agreed to change the name to
GCB but went ahead with the launch of the raunchy new series that not only uses the "b-word" to denigrate women but blasphemes Christianity as well.
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A heroic Spanish nun who fought for women's rights long before it was fashionable will be declared a saint on October 21, 2012 after the Vatican approved the miraculous healing of a three year-old Brazilian girl who was suffering from a brain condition.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter on Friday to all U.S. bishops of the United States reasserting the conviction of the Catholic Church that it will not yield to the Obama administration’s command to provide free birth control insurance to its employees, but not one of the major news outlets covered the story.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe travesty surrounding the testimony of a Georgetown law student who claims she'll go broke if the government doesn't mandate free birth control continues as a background check reveals she's actually a reproductive rights activist who enrolled at the Catholic university with every intention of challenging it's contraceptive-free insurance policy.
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Robert Moorman, who was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his own mother, receiving Communion just before being executed on Wednesday morning, and told the Deacon he would "repeat Jesus' name in my heart" as he was being put to death.
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In a narrow 51-48 vote, liberal members of the U.S. Senate voted to table an amendment proposed by Missouri Senator Roy Blunt (R) that would have provided conscience protection for religious employers in the HHS contraception mandate.
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As the Obama administration works with union bosses and dissident Catholic leaders to work out another "compromise" on the HHS mandate, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the bishops' attempts to work with the White House are "going nowhere."
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Just a day after reporting on a lesbian who is demanding the removal of a priest who refused her communion, we now learn that a man claiming to be the hairdresser for New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez's has refused to do her hair anymore because of her support for traditional marriage.
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