
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The country’s slide into gender chaos continues as a transgender person living in the state of Oregon has been permitted by the courts to change their sex to “non-binary” rather than male or female.
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More than 9.1 million people have made a pilgrimage to the Eternal City thus far in the Holy Year of Mercy.
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In a rare sign of unity, the three branches of Christianity who oversee one of the Holy Land’s most precious sites – the Church of the Holy Sepulchre – have put aside their differences to join together in critically needed renovations of the site.
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Highly discriminatory legislation aimed at extending the statute of limitation for filing civil lawsuits alleging childhood sexual abuse that occurred only in private and nonprofit institutions are making their way through the state legislatures in Pennsylvania and New York.
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A cloth with a drop of blood from St. John Paul II has been reported stolen from the Cologne Cathedral.
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The Most Reverend Hector Cardelli, local bishop of San Nicolas, Argentina, announced on Sunday that the apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary, which took place in his diocese from On October 13 1983 to February 11,1990 are “supernatural in character” and “worthy of belief.”
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Contrary to rumors circulating throughout the Catholic world lately, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI denies having ever said that the release of the third secret of Fatima in the year 2000 was incomplete.
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As she lay dying in her mother’s arms after an ISIS attack on her home, a 12 year-old Christian girl in Mosul, Iraq used her last breath to beg her mother to forgive her killers.
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St. Phoebe, 1st Century Deaconess
During discussions with 900 heads of female religious orders yesterday, Pope Francis indicated his desire to set up a commission to study the possibility of reinstating female deacons.
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A new campaign is underway to encourage people to partake of God’s mercy in the Sacrament of Reconciliation during this Holy Year of Mercy through the use of billboards, lawn signs, bumper stickers and other resources.
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