RM writes:
"Have your heard of TRX Training? It appears to be fine in that it apparently started with Navy seals. However, I was wondering if you had a better understanding of it's inspirations, influences, and anything else important. If this training is okay, then the question becomes is it ok to be supporting a pilates studio by taking just TRX training there. (I saw your comment on tending to think it's fine to belong to a gym - like a YMCA - and not participate in the questionable classes. However, is it likewise ok to take classes at a pilates studio - not a general gym - that offers TRX training? FYI it does not offer yoga.)"
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley has asked an Iraqi woman known as the "Mother Theresa" of Iraq, to start a new order, the Daughters of Mary, Our Lady of Nazareth.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Connecticut lawmakers displayed an appallingly lopsided set of priorities this week when they decided to toss out a bill requiring minors to get parental permission before using tanning parlors rather than allow a pro-life lawmaker to require the same permission for minors seeking an abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New York lawmakers are expected to resume pivotal talks today on a proposed same-sex marriage bill which is said to be hinging upon satisfying conservatives who want to see adequate protections for religious groups inserted into the bill before they will agree to vote for it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Despite the author's pro-abortion view, a new book on the global impact of female infanticide devastates the argument for "choice" while predicting increased violence, depressed economies, and a worrisome growth in human trafficking unless the practice is stopped.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As wildfires displace thousands in Arizona, local Christians who are aiding in relief efforts are wowing the public with a beautiful display of charity and faith in Jesus Christ.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even though NBC apologized for omitting the words “under God” and “indivisible” from the Pledge of Allegiance during Sunday’s U.S. Open, the company is under ever-increasing pressure to punish those responsible for the omission.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cyberspace is buzzing today about the resignation of Fr. John Corapi, with few seeming to regard his decision to abandon the priesthood as a good move.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Homosexual activists within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are pushing to impose their radical version of homosexual "sensitivity training", which compares heterosexism to racism, on a government-wide basis.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After being suspended in the wake of unproven allegations made against him, the popular speaker Fr. John Corapi has announced that after 20 years in ministry, he's leaving the Catholic priesthood.
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