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2015-07-11T15:28:29-06:00

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Cancer Doc Who Gave Healthy People Chemo Gets 45 Years.

Last updated on: July 11, 2015 at 3:28 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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What happens when you cannot trust your doctor? Dr Farid Fata is an example. Dr Fata lied to patients who were not sick and told them they had cancer. Then, he subjected them to the horrors of cancer therapy. He also gave patients who actually did have cancer many more chemotherapy treatments than they should have had. All of his patients were subjected to the terror of cancer and were harmed by these treatments. Dr Fata also murdered some of... Read more

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2015-07-10T11:13:31-06:00

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How Do You Leave the Catholic Church?

Last updated on: July 10, 2015 at 11:13 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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How can you leave the Catholic Church? I ask this question and give my answer at the National Catholic Register. How can you leave the Catholic Church? The question was rhetorical, not literal. I asked it of the air, more or less, as my husband was driving the car. At the same time that I asked it rhetorically, I meant it absolutely. I recently talked to someone I know who told me that she’d “left” the Catholic Church. She’s now... Read more

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2015-07-11T13:26:06-06:00

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Oregon Allows 15-Year-Olds to Get Sex Change Operations without Parental Consent

Last updated on: July 11, 2015 at 1:26 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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This story of politically correct excess speaks for itself. Oregon is now allowing children as young as 15 to undergo sex-change surgery without parental consent. This, in a state that does not allow 15-year-olds to drive a car or smoke a cigarette. This irresponsible action by the state of Oregon is symptomatic of the nihilistic push in our nation that is clearly running ahead of both common sense and our long-understood ideas of freedom. Sex change surgery is just the... Read more

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2015-07-10T11:28:22-06:00

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Pope Gets Gobsmacked by Bolivian President’s Adolescent Blasphemy

Last updated on: July 10, 2015 at 11:28 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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Here’s what happened: Pope Francis was on a Papal tour of Bolivia. He was in the process of greeting Bolivian President Evo Morales. Now President Morales is a head of state. One would expect him to behave like a head of state and not a middle-schooler, bent on a deliberately blasphemous prank. But then … this guy’s bad news from jump street. He removed the Bible and the cross from the presidential palace as soon as he took office and... Read more

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2015-07-09T17:20:40-06:00

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Oklahoma Governor Says 10 Commandments Monument Can Stay

Last updated on: July 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Oklahoma’s governor, Mary Fallin has decided that the 10 Commandments Monument can stay on state capitol grounds. The Oklahoma State Supreme Court recently ruled that the monument violates the Oklahoma State Constitution. They made this ruling despite the fact that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that a similar monument in Texas does not violate the Constitution of the United States of America. The reaction from legislators was predictable, with calls to impeach the Supreme Court members who voted against... Read more

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2015-07-09T12:37:59-06:00

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Was St Maria Goretti’s Purity in Her Body? Let’s Ask St Augustine.

Last updated on: July 9, 2015 at 12:37 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Purity is a virtue of the soul … not even when the body is violated is it lost. St Augustine St Augustine had a lot to say about rape. His teaching on this subject is the historic Christian attitude toward rape victims. It speaks comfort to the victims of ISIS and sex slavery today, as well as rape victims all over the world and throughout history. St Augustine also discusses at length the practice — which is certainly still practiced in certain cultures today... Read more

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2015-07-08T10:07:50-06:00

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What if We Took a New Look at the Story of St Maria Goretti?

Last updated on: July 8, 2015 at 10:07 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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This is for those who lie in the field, the lake, the dump and the shallow grave. It is for the ones whose bodies will never be found, whose names will go unrecorded; for the forgotten, unidentified, unfound women who died at the hands of their attackers. Rebecca Hamilton I know a simple way to turn St Maria Goretti into a saint that rape victims and battered women all over the world would turn to in gratitude and adoration. Why don’t... Read more

2015-07-07T15:01:07-06:00

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Website Asking $1 Mill to Stop Woman from Aborting Her Baby Is a Hoax

Last updated on: July 7, 2015 at 3:01 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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Remember the website on which an anonymous woman claimed she was 7 weeks pregnant and offered not to have an abortion if people donated $1 million to stop her? Well — Surprise! — “she” is a he who has other questionable internet sites. If you click on the website now, you’ll find a claim that the earlier site was an “augmented excerpt” (whatever that is) fro a novel. In short, the whole thing is a hoax. From LifeNews.com: A supposed demand... Read more

2015-07-07T10:44:54-06:00

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Many Rape Victims Have a Bit of Trouble with St Maria Goretti. Here’s Why

Last updated on: July 7, 2015 at 10:44 am By Rebecca Hamilton

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I’ve spent a fair amount of my adult life, trying to help rape victims. I was one of the six original founders of the YWCA Rape Crisis Center here in Oklahoma, the first such center in the state. I have passed a ton of legislation to help end the scourge of violence against women, including more than a few laws to help rape victims. I spent a number of years on the board of an organization that rescued women who... Read more

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2015-07-06T15:24:36-06:00

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“A Shepherd Cannot Run Away,” Father Stanley Rother, Martyr

Last updated on: July 6, 2015 at 3:24 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

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This is my first blog post for the National Catholic Register. It’s about Father Stanley Rother, martyr, a priest who refused to flee his post to save himself. American Martyr Fr. Stanley Rother: “A Shepherd Cannot Leave His Flock” by Rebecca Hamilton 07/06/2015 Comments (1) “The reality is that we are in danger. This is one of the reasons I have for staying in the face of physical harm. The shepherd cannot run away at the first sign of danger. Pray for us…”... Read more

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