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Pastors who bully parishioners over masks appear to have forgotten the soul-saving mission of the church, and are instead tyrannizing those they should serve.Despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s repeal of the state mask mandate, a pregnant Catholic mother was kicked out of Mass in the Diocese of Dallas for failing to wear a mask.Father Milton Ryan, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, is alleged to have called the police while the service was underway and have the young mother threatened with arrest for trespass. Deidre Hairston returned to her pew after receiving communion, with her one-year-old baby in her arms,...

Denied permission to participate in the Northbrook Memorial Day parade, an anti-war group plans to gather silently at the event, prompting the local American Legion post to urge people to attend to outnumber the group. A leader of the Northbrook Peace Committee said his group merely wants to show its patriotism, but members of the American Legion decided their parade Monday would not be the appropriate time for something that could be construed as a political statement against war. "As far as I'm concerned, they aren't Americans," said Michael Murray, 62, an American Legion member who voted against allowing the...

With the mainstream media moving on to other things the school officials at Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois decided to offer a resolution to a very disturbing problem. This problem led to 15 senior girls being charged with misdemeanor battery charges following a “powder-puff” football game that turned into a scene from Platoon. It would seem that the school officials have offered a deal to the 31 suspended students who are awaiting expulsion for their involvement in the melee. The deal would allow them to graduate with their class and have their grades frozen at the level they...

Two adults and a student were charged today with supplying alcohol to suburban Chicago high school students involved in the videotaped brutal hazing. Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine said one woman was charged with purchasing three kegs of beer, two of which were found at the forest preserve where the hazing took place. Another woman was accused of allowing her home to be used for underaged drinking. The student was charged with unlawful possession of alcohol by a minor. Devine said that student brought the kegs to the May 4 ``powder puff'' event where Glenbrook North High School senior...

By now everyone has seen the videotape of the melee that was titled a powder-puff football game in Northbrook, Illinois. In times passed senior and junior girls would gather to compete in a game of football, usually around homecoming, in an attempt to highlight a time during the year when tradition and inclusion became a right of passage. In times passed participating in such an event was an almost certain guarantee of fond memories to come. Today, this right of passage has taken on a much different tone and disturbingly the memories being made are those most often found in...

Students disciplined in the violent melee involving Glenbrook North High School students might be facing more than just an ugly end to their high school days. Their college careers might also be on the line. About half of all U.S. colleges require incoming students to tell them about any serious trouble they've gotten into since they filled out their applications, including the University of Illinois, where, according to the high school's Web site, 174 Glenbrook North current seniors have enrolled. "There's a committee that evaluates each case," Robin Kaler, a spokesperson at the University's Urbana-Champaign campus, said Monday. "They look...

<p>NORTHBROOK, Ill. — Authorities investigating a videotaped hazing (search) in which high school girls were pummeled and showered with feces, paint and garbage said Thursday they are trying to determine whether parents supplied beer and some of the filth. They also said criminal charges were likely.</p>