Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe owner of a bridal shop in Pennsylvania has been forced to close her doors after a lesbian couple launched a social-media bullying campaign in retaliation for the owner's refusal to service their same-sex wedding.
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"You ought to use great caution, even in doing
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As the Ebola outbreak continues to spread through West Africa, now claiming the life of a nun and a priest along with 1,000 others, Catholics in hard-hit areas are being asked to change their worship habits in a desperate attempt to check the deadly progress of the disease.
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At the request of the chairman of the Committee of International Justice and Peace, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking the people in all U.S. dioceses to pray for peace in Iraq on Sunday, August 17.
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"Humility is one of the most difficult virtues both
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Archbishop Silvani Tomasi
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, is signaling approval for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq aimed at checking the encroachment of the brutal Islamic State in Iraq and to protect targeted ethnic minorities.
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Officials at the Fremont Unified School District has district have agreed to shelve the use of a controversial sex ed textbook that outraged parents for its graphic depiction of activities such as the use of sex toys, masturbation, and sexual bondage.
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Even as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) proceeds with its annual assembly this week during which they will honor a dissenting nun, the Pew Center Research Center is reporting that the number of nuns in the U.S. is continuing its steep decline.
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The fate of a pair of twin babies conceived via IVF and born last week - to the wrong mother - is now held in the hands of an Italian judge.
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"Humility does not consist in ignorance of
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