by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 27, 2008) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to auction off an unused portion of the wireless spectrum to anyone willing to provide free Internet service without pornography may be derailed by critics crying “censorship!”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 27, 2008) African-American pastors gathered in Washington yesterday to demand that candidates from both parties reject campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood because of its racist agenda.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 27, 2008) A British researcher has found that after several decades of the feminist revolution and its relaxed rules of sexual conduct, the “one-night stand”still leaves women feeling more “used” than “liberated.”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 26, 2008) After 18 years of prayer, the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of the Diocese of Dallas will mark the closing of the eighth abortion clinic in the city since retired Bishop Charles Grahmann began leading a monthly “Second Saturday Rosary” campaign outside Dallas area clinics in 1990.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 26, 2008) One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical research companies, Pfizer, has announced plans to fund a new adult stem-cell treatment that could treat diabetes-induced retinal damage, a leading cause of blindness.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 26, 2008) When planning your summer vacation this year, think green, says the Vatican. Pack less luggage, eat eco-friendly meals, and choose locations that are close to nature such as what this christian tours to israel company offers.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 25, 2008) In spite of the fact that the Democratic party platform includes support for abortion, embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage - social positions that are opposed to Church teaching - a new poll by Georgetown University says Catholics are leaning toward the Democratic party in this year’s election.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 25, 2008) Culture-conscious consumers who want to spend their hard-earned cash on products produced by companies that promote traditional family values may want to take the Heinz label off their shopping list. The company’s latest commercial advertising deli-style mayo features a homosexual “family” and two men kissing.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 25, 2008) Major media coverage of the Gloucester High School “pregnancy pact” is blaming everything for the problem but the obvious - a lack of moral education.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 24, 2008) The arrest of a 48 year old abortion clinic owner in San Diego for performing abortions without a medical license, and employing a long list of unscrupulous doctors, is revealing the dark side of “safe, legal abortion” in the United States.
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