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Court Sides with Church in Controversial Firing Case

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A district court judge in Illinois has ruled in favor of the Archdiocese of Chicago in a lawsuit brought against the church by a homosexual man who was fired from his position as music director in a parish after he publicly announced his engagement to a man.

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Chaput: Have No Sympathy for the Devil

devil with christCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles Chaput devoted a particularly hard-hitting column last week to explaining why any attempt to discount the personification of evil is a fool’s folly.

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Overdose Now Leading Cause of Death for Americans Under Age 50

fentanyl 2Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had a sobering message for the media on Tuesday about the country’s staggering opioid epidemic – it’s getting worse - and drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50.

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Wonder Woman & the Wonder of Women

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

While most of the world hails the blockbuster movie, Wonder Woman, as a new box-office record for a film directed by a woman, the devoted mother who starred in the movie and who was five months pregnant while filming parts of it is a stark reminder to all of us that embracing authentic femininity can put the heroine in all of us.

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State of Illinois Purges All Dissent of LGBTQ Child Policies

12301785_sThe Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has issued new “enhanced” policies which are aimed at promoting homosexuality and transgenderism among youth and say that they “will not tolerate” anyone who is not supportive of children’s “right to self-determination of sexual/gender identity.”

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Keeping Children Safe On-Line

22849088 - many people checking their smartphones at the dinner tableCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

In an age when children as young as eleven are easily encountering misbehavior on line, parenting expert Katharine Hill, the UK director of the Care for the Family charity, discusses eight key tips to keeping kids safe on line. sometimes the problem is that we as parents don't think that the internet can harm our kids, it is silly to see how it is normal for us to worry about the safety of our kids when going to school, getting in their car and using their high back booster seat, but still we have no clue of what the internet can do.

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Poll: Americans Leaning More Liberal, But Only On Some Issues

13225131_lGallup’s latest Values and Beliefs poll reveals that Americans are becoming more liberal on certain moral issues, such as birth control and sex outside marriage, but are still conservative when it comes to issues such as abortion, pornography, cloning and adultery.

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Half Million More Join Target Boycott

target boycottThe American Family Association (AFA) delivered 500,000 more signatures to Target headquarters in Minneapolis this week, which only adds to the headaches this once towering retailer has been experiencing since initiating its dangerous and misguided bath and fitting room policy.

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Blasphemous Movie to Open June 30

The Little HoursCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

A protest is evolving against a new movie, The Little Hours, which is a so-called American “comedy" based on the story of a servant boy who takes shelter in a very dysfunctional convent where the nuns outdo one another in their haste to seduce him. 

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