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he case of 14 year-old Justina Pelletier has many Americans wondering if it could happen to them, but a new op-ed appearing on
National Review Online shows how shockingly easy it can be to "legally kidnap" a child in the U.S. - especially when it involves ideology.
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Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), which received $2.75 million in taxpayer funds in 2012, is under fire after posting a video online that promotes bondage and sado-masochism (BDSM) to teens.
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The Burnett-Downey film,
Son of God, soared past its best opening weekend box office estimates by raking in $26.5 million in ticket sales.
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Girl Scouts CEO Anna Maria Chavez is under fire once again by critics of her liberalized version of the Scouts for producing a video they say is full of disingenuous statements and outright fabrications - something they prove in a hard-hitting six minute rebuttal now available on YouTube.
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State Senators in Arizona have passed a new law that will allow business owners to refuse service to homosexuals based on their religious beliefs.
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In what some are calling an "absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media", the Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is floating the idea of placing government monitors in newsrooms across the country to determine what stories are being covered and why.
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A Utah mother was shopping with her son in a local mall when she came across a display of indecent t-shirts in a store window and, when she couldn't get the manager to remove them, decided to buy them herself just to get them out of sight.
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International outrage is growing in response to the passage of a law extending euthanasia to children in Belgium with people from around the world joining in a petition to persuade Belgian King Philippe not to sign the bill into law.
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In this age when effective evangelization is so important, Fr. Paul Check, director of Courage, a Catholic apostolate for persons with same-sex attraction, offered some helpful clarification on the subject of the Church’s teaching on homosexuality which continues to be largely misunderstood by many Catholics and consistently misrepresented by the secular media.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn this era of political correctness - which usually means silencing people of faith to avoid "forcing their beliefs on others" - Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch is unabashedly Catholic and not afraid to make it known on the slopes of Sochi.
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