Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In an age when anything even remotely Christian is not permitted on public property, the White House has no reservations about using the most solemn Christian holiday of Easter to introduce youngsters to the Hindu practice of yoga during the annual Easter Egg roll to be held today.
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The Vatican has released the full text of Pope Francis' Urbi et Orbi blessing for Easter which calls upon the world to "change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace."
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Pope Francis touched the hearts of the world yesterday as he washed and kissed the feet of 12 young people in a juvenile detention center in Rome, telling them he was doing so because his heart compelled him.
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At least for the time being, Pope Francis has decided not to move into the palatial Vatican apartment reserved for the Holy Father and will continue to live in the Vatican guesthouse where he has been staying since the beginning of the conclave that elected him earlier this month.
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Court watchers are busy parsing every word spoken by U.S. Supreme Court justices this week as they reacted to oral arguments in two same-sex marriage cases that could change the way America defines marriage in the near future.
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An estimated 15,000 people converged on the nation's capital yesterday to rally for traditional marriage.
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Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Ala. issued an order March 25 dismissing EWTN’s lawsuit challenging the government mandate that employee healthcare plans must provide coverage for contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures and abortion-inducing drugs.
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For the second time this year, more than a million French citizens converged in the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest same-sex marriage.
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An intense public outcry has persuaded Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to reverse its decision to punish a student who complained about a class exercise requiring him to stomp on the name of Jesus. It has also led to an investigation of the University by Florida Governor Rick Scott.
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Oral arguments are being heard this week in the U.S. Supreme Court regarding two same-sex marriage cases that could result in an entirely new definition of family in the U.S., although most court watchers say the Justices won't go nearly that far in their rulings.
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