Ashley Madison and the death of monogamy

Everything changed with the hacking of the Ashley Madison website and the release of over 37 million names, along with account information. Now, millions around the world who had paid no attention to Ashley Madison or the “Dark Web” found themselves staggered by the sheer scale of the adultery enterprise. Millions of others faced the reality that their Ashley Madison registration was about to go public, often along with incriminating details.
Opinion
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The latest on the Kasper proposal

Is the campaign to promote Cardinal Walter Kasper’s proposal to allow the reception of Holy Communion by divorced and remarried Catholics simply prompted by misguided but understandable sympathy, or is it motivated by something more sinister and revolutionary?
Opinion
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Ohio legislators aim to ban abortion of babies with Down syndrome

COLUMBUS, OH, August 26, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life legislators in Ohio have proposed a bill that will protect Down Syndrome babies from being “terminated” in the womb. The bill would make it illegal to abort a baby just because that child may have Down’s. Ohio Right to Life president Mike Gonidakis said the bill is important because Down Syndrome is easily misdiagnosed in pregnancy, yet so likely to lead to abortion.  “Everyone has a right to live, perfect or not,” he said. Approximately 90 percent of babies diagnosed as having Down's are aborted. “You go to any supermarket or mall […]
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Raped and pregnant at 14, she chose life for her baby

Aug. 25, 2015 (TheDailySignal)– Crystal Willis-Blount, a birth mother and a rape survivor, says that she and her daughter are not “talking points” for pro-choice politicians. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Willis-Blount said that at 14, she was placed in an advanced math class with older students. One day, a fellow student lured her into an empty room at the high school and raped her. She told only her best friend about the attack. “Automatically, there was shame involved,” Willis-Blount said. “So that prevented me from telling anyone else.” A few months later, her friend insisted that Willis-Blount go […]
Opinion
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Final Exit Network found guilty for assisting the suicide of Minnesota woman

Aug. 25, 2015 (Euthanasia Prevention Coalition)–A Minnesota Judge applied the maximum sentence to the Final Exit Network (FEN) for their role in assisting the suicide of Doreen Dunn (57) in 2007, after a jury found the Final Exit Network guilty last May. The Star Tribune reported that: During the trial, prosecutors argued that the group gave Doreen Dunn, of Apple Valley, a “blueprint” for ending her life and made efforts to conceal her suicide from family and authorities by removing the equipment she used.  Criminal cases against Final Exit Network coordinator Roberta Massey, of Bear, Del., and the group’s medical director, Lawrence Egbert, […]
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Ted Cruz leads huge rally for religious liberty in Iowa

DES MOINES, IA, August 25, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) — Republican presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz hosted a religious freedom rally in Des Moines, IA Friday night, with an estimated two to three thousand people traveling from across Iowa and out of state to attend. The event, part of Cruz's campaign for president, was a mix of religious revival, panel discussion, interview, and prayer. The event also included entertainment, with music performed by Christian music group The Bontrager Family Singers and Christian rock band Newsboys. But the evening centered on appearances by the subjects of several notorious cases of religious persecution currently […]
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A modern day Holocaust

Aug. 25, 2015 (Population Research Institute) — Since Roe v. Wade abortion has claimed the lives of over 53 million babies in America. More than eight times as many infants have been killed through abortion than Jews murdered in the Nazi concentration camps. Abortion is truly the Holocaust of our time. On May 2, 1945, the 8th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Wöbbelin, Germany. There they discovered bodies that “were found piled four and five feet high,” and others that were strewn among the sick and dying. Four days later, under orders of the 82nd Airborne Division, American […]
Opinion
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Cardinal Kasper’s philosophical approach leads directly to moral relativism

August 25, 2015 (Voice of the Family) — In our analyses of the relatio synodi of the Extraordinary Synod and of the instrumentum laboris of the Ordinary Synod Voice of the Family drew attention to the false approach adopted by the Synod towards the relationship between the Church and historical development. A very important contribution to this discussion has been made by Professor Thomas Stark, professor of philosophical anthropology at the Benedict XVI Institute of Philosophy and Theology at Heiligenkreuz, in Austria. His lecture German Idealism and Cardinal Kasper’s Theological Project provides crucial insights into the philosophical approach that lies behind “progressive” assaults on Catholic doctrine at the Synod. In […]
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Bishops of Ghana issue powerful pro-life, pro-family rallying cry

August 25, 2015 (Voice of the Family) — The Bishops’ Conference of Ghana has issued a powerful statement upholding the natural moral law and the teaching of the Catholic Church on matters relating to the defence of human life, marriage and the family. The statement was issued following a pro-life conference in Accra, which was organised by the Bishops’ Conference. The majority of Ghana’s bishops were in attendance. Voice of the Family’s co-founder John Smeaton was among the speakers who addressed the conference. Preamble In response to the increasing violation of the sanctity and dignity of human life and the continuing culture of death […]
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Agency linked to Swiss bishops’ conference sends LGBT activists to undermine African bishops

August 21, 2015 (Voice of the Family) — The Catholic News Agency is reporting today that a Catholic agency in Switzerland, with close links to the Bishops’ Conference of Switzerland, are funding LGBT activists who wish to undermine the work of African Catholic bishops. Voice of the Family has also drawn attention recently to the concerted attempts by western agencies and governments to impose contraception, abortion and the homosexual agenda on African nations. We have similarly reported on the disturbing collaboration between Vatican departments and the leading architects of the population control movement. CNA reports that the “Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund and a major U.S. foundation have helped fund an LGBT […]
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Don’t worry – the Pope and Obama won’t waste time discussing their differences: Ambassador

August 20, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The relationship between Barack Obama and Pope Francis is cozy and affirming, according to the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, and the Holy Father thinks highly of the U.S. president. Ken Hackett said it was Obama’s March 2014 visit to the Vatican, when the two bonded over perceived shared priorities, that helped seal the deal on the Pontiff coming to Washington, D.C., during his visit to the United States next month. “Yes, the President invited him and more importantly, in the context of that invitation, the dynamic, the personal interaction, was more than warm,” Hackett […]
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Priests can apply to Vatican online to become abortion-forgiving missionaries of mercy

Vatican City, August 20, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis is recruiting priests to serve as missionaries with special authority for pardoning certain sins during the upcoming Year of Mercy. The Missionaries of Mercy is “a new and original initiative by which the Pope intends to emphasize his pastoral care in a more concrete way,” according to Vatican News Service, and the Pontiff will give them “the authority to pardon even those sins reserved to the Holy See.” The Holy Father revealed his plans in April for the Year of Mercy in the Bull of Indiction (formal announcement or proclamation) Misericordiae […]
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Mexican cardinal tells trans activist: Gay ‘rights’ are ‘false rights’

MEXICO CITY, August 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The transsexual known as Diana Sanchez, whose biological sex is male and is a political figure in Mexico City’s leftist party PRD, wrote a letter to Mexico’s Primate, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, on July 29 demanding he and other cardinals “obey” the Pope in “abstaining from discriminating and judging homosexuals.” Referring to the recent marches that have taken place across the country in favor of the right to life and the protection of natural marriage, the activist demanded the Primate investigate and “punish” the Mexican prelates who had promoted them, saying they “promote discrimination […]
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Networks censor release of fifth Planned Parenthood baby parts video: continue lion coverage

(Newsbusters) – With the ABC and CBS preoccupied with continuing coverage of Cecil the Lion and NBC harping on Jeb Bush’s comments about women’s health, the major broadcast networks found zero time on Tuesday night to mention the fact that arguably the most disturbing video yet in the Planned Parenthood scandal was released hours earlier by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).  Despite multiple mentions on cable networks CNN, the Fox News Channel (FNC), and MSNBC, the “big three” networks reverted back to their old ways of censoring the CMP videos as they did in the case of the third video (plus that of the second video […]
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