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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The headlines have been screaming for days - St. Louis Archbishop Didn't Know Sex With Children was Crime - but the discerning Catholic should realize by now that the same Catholic-bashing news outlets that wrongly accused the Sisters of Bon Secours for dumping 800 babies in a septic tank in Ireland probably got this story wrong too.

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While the Obama Administration continues to ignore the humanitarian crisis occurring on the U.S. southern border, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it will provide a $350 million grant opportunity to anyone willing to provide shelter and "family planning services" to the thousands of "unaccompanied alien children" (UACs) who are pouring into the country at unprecedented rates.

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If a pending appeal in the case of the imprisoned Sudanese doctor, Meriam Ibrahim, is not successful, she will soon have to endure 100 lashes - which are designed to literally take skin off the body - as punishment for trumped up adultery charges.

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“Having confidence in you, O Mother of God, I shall be saved.

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Two of the latest examples of just how low the nation's sex ed establishment is willing to stoop occurred within the last week with one school making 14 year-old girls confess publicly to how far they are willing to go sexually, while another program showed images to middle schoolers that were so raunchy we can't even describe them in this post!

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BB writes: "A friend has brought to my attention a healing/praying modality called Ama-Deus, this is, I believe, the fruit of Alberto Aguas. Are you familiar with this and is it compatible with Catholic Church teaching?"

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After reading story after story about Christians who are being forced to accept homosexual unions, most of us have figured out by now that tolerance is not the real aim of the same-sex marriage movement in America - it's about silencing or punishing anyone who doesn't agree with them.

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“When Barnabas arrived in Antioch and saw

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Washington's National Cathedral is about to witness another "first" this month when an openly transgender priest will give a sermon to mark LGBT month in the Capital.

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The story of 796 babies found buried in a septic tank on the grounds of a Mother's Home in Ireland have gripped the press for the last week. But now the author of the research that started it all says the facts are being misrepresented.

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