The movement to protect faith-based adoption agencies from becoming the victims of LGBTQ-oriented non-discrimination laws gained more momentum this week when Governor Mary Fallin (R) of Oklahoma signed a new law into effect that will protect faith-based adoption agencies from being forced to provide placements that violate their religious or moral convictions.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Planned Parenthood may think that the public is falling for its disingenuous prattle about wanting to protect “women’s reproductive rights,” but the backlash from their latest tweet celebrating motherhood proves that the abortion giant isn’t fooling anyone.
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MS asks:
“Could you do a blog exposing the Gamaliel Foundation? I'm concerned how it has infiltrated the Catholic Church--see Voice Buffalo. We are cooperating with churches that support abortion, gay marriage and worship of false gods!”
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Scene of burning fissure coursing through the Leilani Estates subdivision in the lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea Volcano. (US Geological Survey).
After the recent eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and a series of small earthquakes, Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva is asking for prayers for those who have lost everything.
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More than 100 years later after President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Mother’s Day, the lives of women have changed in ways that have dramatically changed the face of motherhood – but the heart of motherhood remains unchanged.
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On this day when we celebrate Our Lord's Ascension into heaven, the headlines are full of the sad tale of a renowned botanist named Dr. David Goodall who ended his life yesterday at the age of 104 in a Swiss suicide clinic. His claims to have had nothing more to live for proves why the great hope of the Ascension is so desperately needed today.
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AD asks:
"Can you explain what Colorstrology is?"
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan
(Wikicommons/Heidi Green, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Apparently, I’m not the only one getting an earful about the Met Gala where Hollywood stars showed up in outrageous costumes that caricatured Catholicism and offended almost everyone I know (even non-Catholics). Cardinal Dolan is also being called upon to explain why this was allowed to happen – and why he attended the event.
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Justin Danhof, Esq., the same man who forced an apology out of Joy Behar for offending Christians turned his sights on Prudential at a recent meeting and demanded to know why the company, along with 36 others, signed an amicus brief filed by a radical LGBTQ activist group that sides against the religious freedom of the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (Wikicommons)
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Social media is abuzz this morning over last night’s Met Gala which was themed “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” and drew stars dressed in costumes that many found to be downright offensive to Catholics.
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