By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Proponents of same-sex marriage in Maine are scrambling to persuade the public that homosexuality will not be taught in schools after a pro-family ad featured an interview with a Massachusetts teacher who described how she teaches gay and lesbian sex to schoolchildren now that same-sex marriage is legal in that state.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Just as the Senate is poised to pass a military expenditures bill to which an unpopular and controversial hate-crimes bill has been attached, the senior vice president of a traditional values organization received a portent of things to come – a threatening phone call from a gay activist.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As the government of Spain prepares to pass a bill that will allow abortion on demand, more than two million people staged a massive pro-life demonstration on the streets of Madrid on Saturday.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Reaction to the Vatican’s surprise move to open the doors of the Church to disaffected Anglicans is causing a range of emotions from joy and relief to consternation and confusion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While speaking to an Italian-American law group in Philadelphia on Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he was frustrated with repeated comments in the press about the Court’s Roman Catholic majority.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of widespread criticism of his role in inviting pro-abortion President Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree at Notre Dame’s commencement last year, the Notre Dame Board of Trustees has re-elected Fr. John Jenkins to a second five-year term as president of the university.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An historic moment in the life of the Church took place today when the Vatican announced a new canonical structure that will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An inquisitive reporter at a Houston newspaper discovered that the president’s new serve.gov website promoting volunteerism contains requests from Planned Parenthood for volunteers to help “protect access to women’s health during the 40 Days for Life.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Florida health officials have drawn up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.
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