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This article, which I posted on our Breaking News site today, confirms what we have known all along - yoga is Hinduism and anything who says otherwise is just plain wrong.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In an interview with The Telegraph of London, Wikileaks journalist James Ball said secret documents referring to the Vatican will be released within the next few weeks.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Doctors in Berlin are confirming that they have cured a four year-old girl of leukemia with an infusion of stem cells from her own umbilical cord blood.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a new paper released today by the Family Research Council's Marriage and Religion Research Institute, Dr. Patrick Fagan demonstrates that adoption improves children's lives significantly.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Frustrated with the American practice of yoga and its distorted view of the Hinduism upon which it is based, the influential Hindu American Foundation has launched a campaign to "Take Back Yoga" by reminding people that yoga is indeed part of the Hindu religion.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist An editorial page editor for Colorado's Gazette says the media's focus on sex abuse within the Catholic Church has left little space for reporting about institutions where the problem is far worse - such as public schools.

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Last winter I posted a blog about doulas, women who provide non-medical assistance to a mother during and after childbirth. I found no evidence that doulas were connected with the New Age; however, I just came across an article announcing a new "branch" of doula service being offered to women who have chosen to abort their babies.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The push to repeal the vastly unpopular health care reform law gained considerable momentum last week when an Ohio suit challenging the law was permitted to go forward, and five newly elected Governors announced that they also plan to fight the law in court.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist After many years of enduring innocuous labels for Christmas such as "happy holidays" and "season's greetings," it appears that politically correct retailers are finally getting the message and are returning "Merry Christmas" to their ads and store displays in record numbers.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Along with the worldwide Church, Pope Benedict XVI conducted a vigil for "nascent human life" in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday evening in which he reminded the faithful that embryos are not just biological material but dynamic, autonomous individuals.

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