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Mocking Marriage: The Valentine’s Divorce Contest and the TV Marriage Extravaganza

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

Walter H. Bentley III, a Southfield, Michigan divorce attorney, is again this year conducting his popular FREE VALENTINE’S DIVORCE CONTEST. The winning couple will be given an all-expenses-paid divorce, with an estimated value of $3,000 to $5,000. The winners will be selected based on the most compelling and convincing story as to why they should be granted the divorce. The contest is limited to Michigan residents who seek an uncontested divorce, with no or minimum child custody issues. Bentley, in... Read more

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Detroit Priest Charged with Theft, Removed from Ministry – UPDATED

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

Troubling news today from the Archdiocese of Detroit: A local pastor has been removed from ministry and a warrant issued for his arrest, following charges that he and a Jackson woman conspired to steal thousands of dollars from the Angel Fund, a privately funded charitable program intended to help inner-city residents. Fr. Timothy Kane, former associate pastor at St. Moses the Black parish in Detroit (formerly Church of the Madonna, St. Benedict and St. Gregory the Great parishes), has been... Read more

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‘Cause You Can’t Eat Flowers: Relationship Advice from Older Irish Couples

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

Just in time for Valentine’s Day: Long-married Irish couples explain why they’re still in love after all these years. Read more

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Atheists to School District: Stop Helping Starving Children!

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

An atheist group has protested students’ participation in a community service project that provides food for hungry families. The Appignani Humanist Legal Center sent a letter of complaint after schoolchildren from the School of Engineering and Arts in the Robbinsdale (MN) School District visited Calvary Lutheran Church. The students were participating in a volunteer project sponsored by Feed My Starving Children, a nonprofit organization, to pack meals for needy families in Haiti. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) responded Friday, February... Read more

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Unborn Babies Feel Anger and Joy, Says Heidelberg Study

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

They are happy. They are angry. They are fearful. They like music. And already, they like sweet treats. In fact, babies in utero experience a wide range of sensory input at a much earlier stage of development than once believed. That’s the result of a study from Heidelberg psychotherapist Ludwig Janus, reported February 9 on kath.net, the on-line German-language Catholic newspaper. Dr. Janus’ research showed that the unborn child can already feel emotions, such as anger and joy. According to... Read more

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St. Scholastica: The Insistent Twin Sister

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

February 10 Memorial of St. Scholastica Storms. Rain. Convulsive children. St. Scholastica can help! She is the patron saint of all of these things—as well as the patron of nuns. The twin sister of St. Benedict, St. Scholastica was born around 480 and died on February 10, 547. Even as small children, Benedict and Scholastica were devout. When Benedict established his monastery for religious men at Monte Cassino, Scholastica founded a convent for women just five miles away, in Plombariola.... Read more

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Planned Parenthood Celebrates Valentine’s Day with… a Condom Dress?

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

Planned Parenthood never ceases to amaze. The abortion organization held “Ready or Hot”, a Valentine’s Day fundraiser, on Thursday evening, February 6, in downtown Minneapolis. Their goal was to raise money for “an excellent cause.” This is how Planned Parenthood’s website described the event, which was held at Aria, an event venue in Minneapolis’ trendy Warehouse District: Ready or Hot: Fashion Meets Passion for Planned Parenthood is a celebration of love, reproductive health and fashion just in time for Valentine’s... Read more

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Together Again: Widower Who Sat by Wife’s Grave for 20 Years Has Now Died

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

Julita Abalsamo had been married 55 years when she died in 1993 of complications following heart surgery. And for twelve years following her death, her devoted husband Rocky sat beside her grave in Boston’s St. Joseph Cemetery every day. Most days, he was there when it opened–and he stayed until the gates were closed at night. He didn’t eat or drink during his vigil–mostly, he said, out of respect, but also to be certain he didn’t need the bathroom.... Read more

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Planned Parenthood to Pay $2 Million for Death in Botched Second-Trimester Abortion

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

A $2 million settlement has been reached in the death of a young woman who obtained a second-trimester abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Chicago. Besides Planned Parenthood, also included in the settlement agreement are Northwest Memorial Hospital and the Northwest Medical Faculty Foundation. Tonya Reaves was in the second trimester of pregnancy when she sought an abortion at Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center, in downtown Chicago in 2012. Late-term abortionist Mandy Gittler botched the D&E abortion, causing... Read more

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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 3:53 pm By Kathy Schiffer

One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”... Read more

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