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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Chicago Archbishop, right, takes his seat with Mons. Charles Scicluna, Malta Archbishop, and the Rev. Hans Zollner, left, ahead of a press conference on a Vatican summit on preventing clergy sex abuse, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. Organizers of Pope Francis' summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen survivor-activists who have come to Rome to protest the Catholic Church's response to date and demand an end to decades of cover-up by church leaders. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Catholics sex abuse summit sidesteps role of gay priests

Ukrainian soldiers drive APCs near Urzuf, south coast of Azov sea, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. Ukraine put its military forces on high combat alert and announced martial law this week after Russian border guards fired on and seized three Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine bars entry to Russian males, upping ante in conflict

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, file photo, a salesman at a vape shop exhales while using an e-cigarette in Maine. On Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 530 confirmed and probable cases have been reported from 38 states and one U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Feds launch criminal investigation of vaping industry

This image made from a Dec. 1, 2015, video provided by WNDU-TV shows Ulrich Klopfer in South Bend, Ind. More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of the former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week. (WNDU-TV via AP) **FILE**

Police seek late abortionist's motive after finding fetal remains in home

File-This Jan. 28, 2019 file photo shows the entrance to the main Duke University campus in Durham, N.C. Duke University will pay $112 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit after federal prosecutors said a research technician's fake data landed millions of dollars in federal grants, the school and the government said Monday, March 25, 2019. The private university in Durham submitted claims for dozens of research grants that contained falsified or fabricated information that unjustly drained taxpayer money from the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies, the U.S. Justice Department said. The school said it is repaying grant money and related penalties. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Duke University student government rejects Christian group over LGBTQ stance

Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant

In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Trump administration champions Muslim group denied mosque in Michigan

Democratic presidential hopeful and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks with a voter following an event with Supermajority on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Buttigieg frets over 'politics' after fetal remains found at former South Bend abortionist's home

In this Jan. 18, 2019, file photo, anti-abortion activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, during the March for Life in Washington. The number and rate of abortions across the United States have plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973, according to new figures released Wednesday, Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Obamacare mandate eyed as a cause for record decline in abortions

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Pastafarian pastor leads prayer at government meeting

In this Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds a news conference in the Red Room at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York outlaws flavored e-cigarette products

In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017, file photo, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer smiles as he answers a question during a briefing at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

'Stand with Christ' by voting for me on 'Dancing with the Stars,' Sean Spicer tweets

In this April 29, 2016, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Biden has demonstrated a deep public connection to his Catholic faith, dating to the earliest days of his political career. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Joe Biden's abortion shift tests the politics of his faith

"This is not a cure for peanut allergy," Dr. Ira Finegold, a member of the FDA advisory committee said. "This is a treatment that lessens the severity of an accidental ingestion."

Palforzia, a peanut allergy treatment for children, approved by FDA panel

This Jan. 22, 2019, photo shows Christian artists Joanna Duka, front left, and Breanna Koski, front right, outside the Arizona Supreme Court after justices heard arguments over Phoenix's anti-discrimination ordinance that bars businesses from refusing service to same-sex couples for religious reasons. Duka and Koski, who operate a business that makes invitations and other wedding-related items, had challenged the constitutionality of the ordinance. On Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, the state Supreme Court said the free speech rights of Duka and Koski were violated by the ordinance. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona court sides with religious liberty advocates in same-sex wedding dispute

In this Feb. 26, 2018, file photo, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring attends a news conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Virginia nixes race identification on marriage certificates

Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, and Andrew Yang, right, talk Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, after a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston, as Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg talk. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Black, Latino voters threaten to buck 2020 Democratic hopefuls over charter schools

Liberty students protest in wake of reports about Jerry Falwell Jr.

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, representatives from Key West, Fla., carry a 100-foot-long rainbow flag Sunday, June 30, 2019, during the LGBTQ Pride march in New York. (Jonathan Atkin/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) ** FILE **

BBC teaches kids there are 'over 100' gender identities

In this April 3, 2019, file photo, actress Felicity Huffman arrives at federal court in Boston to face charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Huffman, who pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy and fraud in May, is returning for sentencing in federal on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, court in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Felicity Huffman to be first parent sentenced in college admission scandal

In this Jan. 15, 2018, file photo, Pope Francis holds a photo of U.S. photographer Joseph Roger O'Donnell of child victims of Nagasaki bombing, aboard his flight to Santiago, Chile. The Vatican said Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, Pope Francis will visit Thailand and Japan on Nov. 19-26. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope Francis to visit Thailand, Japan in November

Embryologist Rick Slifkin displays some of the frozen sperm stored at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, in New York, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

White parents sue fertility clinic after having Asian baby

In this May 1, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. Federal regulators are fining Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. But they are only holding Zuckerberg personally responsible in a limited fashion. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Senators hit Facebook for censoring pro-life group

In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, Barronelle Stutzman, left, a Richland, Wash., florist, smiles as she is surrounded by supporters after a hearing in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Christian florist again appeals to Supreme Court over same-sex wedding refusal

Few American students are now required to take U.S. history and civics classes, which has eroded their basic knowledge with "alarming" beliefs, says a new study. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) ** FILE **

'Steady deterioration': Only 18% of colleges now require students to take U.S. history and civics

A patron exhales vapor from an e-cigarette at a store in New York. Commenting that "people should not be using vaping products, period," (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FDA targets Juul as vaping-related deaths increase

This Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, file photo, shows Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., as he introduces Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. calls for FBI probe of 'attempted coup'

Shiite Muslims gather outside the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim during a Muharram procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

31 Iraqi pilgrims die in stampede during Ashoura

An undated file photo of Ronald Reagan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Liberal bias: Popular U.S. history textbook inflates Democrats to 'superhuman levels'

Schools face backlash for not reporting gun threats to parents

In this Aug. 29, 2019, photo, Hevan Lunsford poses for a photo with her son's ultrasounds and footprints and handprints of her son, in Prattville, Ala. Lunsford found out when she was five months pregnant that the baby she would later name Sebastian was severely underdeveloped and had only half of a heart. Lunsford said she felt the only way to guarantee her son would not suffer would be to end the pregnancy and was told she would need to travel to Georgia for the procedure. Lunsford is one of thousands of women across the U.S. in recent years who have crossed state lines for an abortion. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Women seek abortions out of state amid restrictions: AP report

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees warms up before an NFL preseason football game in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)

Brees defends pro-Bible video, blasts 'completely untrue' rumors designed to 'get hits'

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In this image from video provided by Senate TV, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., speaks on the Senate floor about her vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kananaugh, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 in the Capitol in Washington. Sen Shelly Capito, R-W.Va., sits rear left and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., sits right. (Senate TV via AP)

Susan Collins' finest hour

Religious Oppression in China Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How the Chinese government stifles religious faith

Illustration on the continued need for impartial justice by ALexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why Lady Justice must be blind

Illustration on which side is more responsible for national polarization by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The roots of hyper-polarization

Illustration on the attractiveness of Socialism by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The unthinking and the unobservant

Illustration on anti-Christian bias by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Protecting all Americans from anti-religious hostility

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This Oct. 1, 2017, file photo shows Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington shaking hands with churchgoers at St. Mathews Cathedral after the Red Mass in Washington. Wuerl is defending himself ahead of a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses. He says the report will be critical of some of his actions as Pittsburgh's bishop. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Pennsylvania report identifies more than 1,000 children molested by priests

A woman holds her hands in prayer as she watches Pope Francis on a monitor as people await his arrival on Sept. 26, 2015, in Philadelphia. (Associated Press)

God still the co-pilot: U.S. remains the most religious among all Western nations

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The Bible remains a 'powerful, transformative tool' in American culture: Poll

In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, Barronelle Stutzman, left, a Richland, Wash., florist, smiles as she is surrounded by supporters after a hearing in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Supreme Court vacates florist's same-sex wedding case

The White House is seen at dusk in Washington on Nov. 19, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Trump hosts first Iftar dinner in observance of Ramadan

Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law Monday, June 4, 2018, in Lakewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

Colorado baker who won Supreme Court case says he's 'thrilled' with outcome

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store in Lakewood, Colo., on March 10, 2014. Phillips, who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, argued that his religious beliefs should protect him from sanctions against his business. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Supreme Court sides with Christian baker in same-sex wedding cake case

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Judge: 'In God We Trust' on money isn't religion endorsement

First lady Melania Trump speaks on her initiatives during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, May 7, 2018, in Washington. The first lady gave her multipronged effort to promote the well-being of children a minimalist new motto: "BE BEST." The first lady formally launched her long-awaited initiative after more than a year of reading to children, learning about babies born addicted to drugs and hosting a White House conversation on cyberbullying. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Melania Trump unveils 'Be Best' agenda to promote children's well-being

President Donald Trump walks out to speak during a "National Day of Prayer" event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 3, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs executive order establishing faith-based office at White House

Boy Scouts plan name change, now with girls soon joining the ranks

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards waves after speaking during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Richards steps down Tuesday, May 1, from the helm of Planned Parenthood, a position she has held for 12 years, and her parting message to fellow women is: Get involved, and don't wait. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Cecile Richards' exit leaves abortion provider Planned Parenthood in disarray

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 14, 2013, an embryologist works on a petri dish at the Create Health fertility clinic in south London. Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has become a sophisticated process with pricey incubators, specialized techniques and extensive screening. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing a simpler and cheaper method intended mainly for use in developing countries. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) ** FILE **

More than 71,000 babies born in 2016 from IVF

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