Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The Chick-fil-A flap is far from over as the fallout continues on several fronts today with one employee fired for his verbal assault on a restaurant employee and a Chicago Alderman causing scandal by calling Cardinal Francis George's defense of marriage "disingenuous and irresponsible."
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The long held assumption that President Barack Obama has the African American vote in his pocket was shaken up this week when the president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) announced the launching of a campaign asking black voters to refrain from voting for the president unless he reverses his stance on same-sex marriage.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn a hard-hitting column published on the website of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George reminds Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel and others who want to restrict the establishment of pro-marriage Chick-fil-A restaurants that it is not the role of government to dictate "values" to the population.
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It's the summer and we're all happy to put aside our boots and closed shoes for simple and airy sandals, but even these can cause problems if we aren't careful to buy the right kind for our feet.
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L'Osservatore Romano, the Holy See’s official daily newspaper, has gone on the offensive against wealthy philanthropic institutions such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Nestle for using their millions to provide third world women with dangerous forms of contraception and breast milk substitutes.
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A newly published study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has found that while our brains process the image of a man as a whole person, it perceives women as an assemblage of parts, which could explain why women are so often the subject of sexual objectification.
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n abandoned newborn baby girl with a slit throat who was found in a garbage bin in China's Liaoning province is now fighting for her life in a Chinese hospital.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Instead of blocking obscene material from public computers, a library in San Francisco decided to "fix" the problem by providing hoods over the screens to enable porn-viewers to indulge in smut without offending others.
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The Catholic Church will be much more involved in the London Olympic Games than people may think, in both celebrating the use of the body for the glory of God and in ministering to the millions who will converge upon the city.
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One Million Moms (OMM), a group of mothers affiliated with the American Family Association, is calling for a nationwide boycott of
The New Normal, a sitcom scheduled to air this fall about a same-sex couple who hire a surrogate to have a child for them.
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