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Toddler Dressed as Prostitute on Realty Show Sparks National Outrage

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

People have long been uncomfortable with the premise of TLC's Toddlers and Tiaras which features toddlers in womanly clothing who strut around the stage like adult pageant contestants, but a recent show featuring a three year-old dressed like a prostitute has sparked a national outcry.

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Chastity

"Chastity is a virtue which we do not have strength to practice unless God gives it to us, and God does not give this strength except to someone who asks for it. But whoever prays for it will certainly obtain it." St. Alphonsus Liguori For Reflection: Do I really want to acquire the virtue of chastity? Why or why not? If not, what sin is hidden in this? If so, am I willing to pray for it?

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Couple Awarded $4.5 Million For Being Denied Chance to Abort Disabled Child

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist   A jury in Palm Beach County, Florida awarded a couple $4.5 million because they missed the chance to abort their son, who was born with no arms and one leg.

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ACLU Pressuring Missouri Schools to Unfilter Graphic Homosexual Websites

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is attempting to force a school district in the Missouri Ozarks to remove filtering software from school computers that restrict student access to homosexual and transgendered Web sites.

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Chastity

"He who has resolved to contend with his flesh and conquer it himself struggles in vain. For unless the Lord destroys the house of flesh and builds the house of the soul, the man who desires to destroy it has watched and fasted in vain." St. John Climacus

For Reflection: How can I build "the house" of my soul so that I may overcome any temptation to sin against chastity? What are three specific ways I can employ beginning now? (See tomorrow's Grace Line for one saint's suggestion.)

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Bishop Orders Father Frank Pavone Back to Diocese

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The founder of one of the most effective pro-life ministries in the world, Father Frank  Pavone, has been recalled to his diocese and ordered to restrict his ministry until questions about the ministry's financial stewardship are answered.

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Birth Dearth Reflected in Latest Social Security Numbers

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

As GOP presidential candidates argue about the future of Social Security, newly released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the program is not only insolvent, but the steadily declining birthrate has left just 1.75 full time private-sector workers paying into the program for every citizen currently drawing benefits.

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Vatican Accused in International Criminal Court

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Even though they admit to having little hope of success, a group of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have filed a complaint against the pope, the Vatican's secretary of state and two other high-ranking Holy See officials with the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing them of committing crimes against humanity.

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