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Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Religious Concludes

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Mother Mary Clare Millea, ASCJ, Apostolic Visitator for Institutes of Women Religious in the United States, held a concluding workshop last week for the religious who assisted with on-site visits to congregations of women religious, signaling the end of the years-long visitation.

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China May Relax One-Child Policy Within Five Years

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Authorities in Beijing are considering a relaxation of the country's controversial one-child-only policy, not because they've seen the light, but because officials are beginning to realize that the population has become dangerously imbalanced.

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Union Workers in Wisconsin Threaten to Shoot, Bomb Homes of Republican Lawmakers

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Less than two months after the horrifying shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona  prompted nationwide calls for civility in public discourse, mobs of angry union workers in Wisconsin have thrown all sense of decency to the wind and are turning to violence in revenge for the passage of a bill that will restrict their collective bargaining rights.

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Beware of Heretical New Book: "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived"

It's a catchy title that is sure to make it fly off the shelves, but Christians beware! Author Rob Bell,  pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a leader in the equally heretical Emerging Church movement, has filled this book with a false doctrine known as universalism which teaches that everyone goes to heaven because there's no such thing as hell.

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Death and New Life

During these first few weeks of Lent, Holy Mother Church directs us to ponder the reality of our mortality and to make a serious appraisal of how we are living our lives in light of it. Today’s reading from Divine Intimacy (#95) by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD, brings spiritual perspective to this most important consideration. Following are a couple of nuggets that impacted me today in my time of prayer:

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