By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
"Eat Pray Love", the new movie featuring a soul-searching Julia Roberts, is not something faithful Catholics will find inspiring, says the U.S. Bishops news service, and might explain why the star decided to become Hindu after making the film.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During his homily on the Feast of the Assumption, Bishop Ignacio Munilla of San Sebastian, Spain, called this dogma "an antidote to beliefs in reincarnation."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a long-time supporter of "women's reproductive health," announced a new $63 billion plan to bring a more "woman- and girl-centered approach" to global health care services that will include a dramatic increase in "family planning and reproductive health" care.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new Rasmussen poll has found that nearly half (48%) of U.S. voters believe it is too easy to get an abortion in America.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
People wanting to lose weight fast who took part in an online "free trial" of acai berry pills ended up being bilked out of up to $100 million before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stepped in to put a halt to the scam.
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AK wrote about being given a crystal by a friend who said she should use it to find "clarity, atonement, and peace." Certain that the object was given to her out of love and kindness, she now asks what she should do with it. "
Do I just look at it as a pretty geode? Do I return it? I'm not interested in giving my friends the impression that I promote or believe in the power of crystals."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Religious leaders across the country are speaking out about a certain section in a California judge's decision to uphold same-sex marriage that call the Christian position on homosexuality harmful to gays because it could result in curtailing the free speech rights of Christians.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A relic of the true cross, which was stolen from a chapel in Boston's Holy Name Cathedral last month has been recovered in Vermont.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A little more than a year after his controversial appearance at Notre Dame University, President Barack Obama has been invited to speak at Louisiana's Xavier University on August 29 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal appeals court has decided to overrule an activist judge in California who declared the voter- approved ban on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional and would have allowed same-sex marriages to resume tomorrow.
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