Hacker Releases Eleven Unseen #PPSellsBabyParts Videos

Chuck Johnson of GotNews.com

Chuck Johnson of GotNews.com

An internet hacker has provided a website known as GotNews.com with eleven previously unseen videos taken during the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) investigation into the trafficking of baby parts by the abortion industry and is now making them available to the public.

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Planned Parenthood’s Very Bad Week

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

Regardless of the outcome of today’s vote in the U.S. House to defund Planned Parenthood, the already bloodied abortion giant suffered more setbacks this week, including the loss of funding from yet another state, the raiding of its clinics by state officials in another, and the embarrassment of being mocked by one of its own supporters for its role in trafficking fetal body parts.

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Synod Diary: Denials, Affirmations, and Promises

Originally posted in The Catholic World Report

The circuli minori release their reports, and eyes turn toward the synod’s final document.

Cardinals Scola and Kasper talk after event marking 50th anniversary of Synod of Bishops at Vatican

Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan, Italy, talks with German Cardinal Walter Kasper after an event marking the 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Oct. 17. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican journalists were greeted this morning in the Vatican press office with an emphatic denial that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor. The report, from the Italian national newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale, contained titillating details, such as a hushed helicopter ride from Vatican City to Tuscany where a Japanese surgeon is reported to have met with the Holy Father. A second denial was published on the Vatican website. Read the rest…