In January this year I sat in my kitchen early one morning, bleary-eyed after a fractured night’s sleep. (And I’m using the term “sleep” quite loosely.)  The former night’s guilty parties, ages 2 and 5, lounged – in varied stages of consciousness themselves – on the couch, while I clutched a mug of coffee and scrolled through the day’s news stories.  Suddenly I was wide awake, as I came upon the headlines of several Catholic sites: “Pope says Motherhood is Martyrdom.”  Whoa.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

A businessman who was raised Catholic is in the fight of his life over two embryos he created with his ex-fiance, Hollywood starlet Sofia Vergara, who he is suing for custody of his two little girls.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The liberal New York Times, which has been "a bastian of male entitlement" since its beginnings, published an article this week accusing the Church of undervaluing women in spite of the fact that their own track record with women is not exactly sterling.

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“Mary symbolizes the Church, which, espoused

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Only months after Jesus told a Nigerian bishop that the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, would be defeated by the rosary, former captives are reporting that the group is in disarray and is desperate for cash and weapons.

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A well-funded campaign to ruin San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and drive him out of the city is being met with increasing resistance from the faithful who are rallying around him and trying to raise the funds he needs to defend himself.

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In addition to sending out specially assigned “missionaries” to forgive even the most grievous sins, the Vatican has released more information about the upcoming Holy Year of Mercy such as its theme, logo, official prayer, and calendar of events.

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“Hail to you forever, O virgin mother of God,

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Attorneys representing a 16 year old girl who was given four “0” grades for refusing to deny Christ are demanding that Polk State College investigate the professor and his radical curriculum.

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According to new revelations about the pope’s entrance into social media several years ago, the papal Twitter account was bombarded with so much abuse and vulgarity shortly after it opened that the Vatican considered shutting it down.

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