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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Friday, September 16 will be an historic day in the lives of Catholics in England and Wales - it is the day that the traditional Friday fast will be re-established.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe of Naples, Italy announced on Saturday that unrepentant members of the mafia in that city will no longer be entitled to a church funeral, or to serve as godfathers at baptisms.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Discovery of a grisly abortion business in West Philadelphia, now known as the "House of Horrors," has prompted state lawmakers to pass a bill that will hold abortion clinics to the same safety standards that outpatient surgical centers must meet.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A woman who admitted to injecting her eight year-old daughter with Botox on Good Morning America (GMA) last week has lost custody of her child.

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"Mary acquired a very special relation with God. The blood of Jesus, the heart of Jesus and the body of Jesus are formed by the blood of Mary. By adoring the blood, the sacred wounds and the heart of Jesus, we adore something proceeding from Mary which was assumed by the Son of God." Blessed James Alberione For Reflection: Jesus is in Mary. And Mary is in Jesus. How blessed is this Mother! How blessed am I that she is my spiritual mother! How holy are you, O Woman of Grace. Draw me by cords of love to your Immaculate Heart, and with those cords chain me to the Sacred Heart of your Son, my Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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   As difficult as this is to believe, Family Radio Worldwide founder Harold Camping's prediction that the worldwide "rapture" will strike on May 21, 2011 has struck fear into the hearts of millions around the globe.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A new blood test that measures the length of a person's telomeres, which are structures on the tips of our chromosomes that reveal how quickly a person is aging, may soon be used by the general public to determine how long they will live.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The principal at a private Catholic school on Long Island has told a lesbian student that if she wants to go to the prom, she will have to take a male date.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The past month has seen major breakthroughs in adult stem cell research and yet we barely heard a word about it in the press. Why not?

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A growing Facebook trend known as "planking" is being blamed for the death of a 20 year-old Australian man and has prompted calls from officials to put an end to the bizarre fad.

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