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Unplanned is a movie that you will never forget after watching. I can say that from a very personal level as it managed to pierce the thick skin of skepticism that I have developed over the years of civic and political activism. It certainly shows that while there are many
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The timbers of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris had been drying out for eight centuries, so when a fire started near the roof they burned quickly, lighting up the sky in a riveting and sad spectacle Monday. The drying timbers, though beautiful before they were consumed, are a reminder
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The parish priest who preached the sermon at U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy's 2009 funeral Mass has been suspended by the Diocese of Fall River. Bishop Edgar da Cunha placed Father Mark Hession on leave "based on complaints he received about inappropriate communications that Father Hession
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An exchange between two men who have felt same-sex attraction but have sharply different takes on it highlighted nearly three hours of testimony about a proposed ban on conversion therapy at the Massachusetts State House. Ken Williams, a California man who co-founded Changed, an organization of men and women who
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A Massachusetts member of Congress sponsored a bill in December declaring that abortion rights are human rights. The bill would require the U.S. State Department to include "reproductive rights" in its annual human rights report, after the State Department deleted all subsections pertaining to abortion rights in
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The Covington Catholic confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial is a story of high school kids enduring repeated abuse of their religious and political beliefs and then responding with school chants to drown out the abusers. They did nothing wrong and not even much noteworthy.
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The archbishop of New York has no plans to excommunicate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo from the Roman Catholic Church for signing a bill making abortion legal in that state up to the moment of birth, saying he thinks it would backfire. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of the prominent leaders
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DC Comics plans to release a new comic book in March that depicts Jesus of Nazareth as having failed so badly the first time he came to earth that God the Father sends him back to learn how to do it right from a superhero by sharing a two-bedroom apartment
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