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Hacker Releases Eleven Unseen #PPSellsBabyParts Videos
Chuck Johnson of GotNews.comAn 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.
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.
Report: Supplements Sending Thousands to ER Each Year
A new report has found that the American love affair with unregulated supplements isn’t working out so well for an estimated 23,000 people who visit emergency rooms annually due to complications from these products.
Synod Moves Into Most Difficult Phase
Some of the thorniest issues relating to the human family have been discussed by the small working groups of the Synod over the past two weeks – now the time has come to find a consensus with which to move forward.
The Weapon Against Evil
Why You Need to Care About Houston’s “Bathroom” Bill
Houston Mayor Annise ParkerHouston’s battle over an equal rights ballot measure that would expand transgender access to public restrooms is part of a much wider plan to bring the same kind of legislation to every city in in America.
Powerful Testimonies Heard in Synod
Interventions voiced by auditors of the Synod on the Family - delegates who participate in discussions but do not vote - gave a powerful glimpse into the families of the world – their hopes, their dreams, their failings and their triumphs.
Compensations Of Depth
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.
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.
