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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life said he does not expect the results of the ongoing Visitation of U.S. women's religious communities to cause any dramatic changes in the life of U.S. women religious.
Unions Top the List of ObamaCare Waivers
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Dozens of unions are now on a growing list of more than 222 businesses that have been granted waivers by the Obama Administration from a provision in the new healthcare reform plan that would phase out existing coverage limits on their medical plans.
Narnia Fans Fuming After Actor Claims Aslan Doesn't Just Symbolize Christ
Wisconsin Bishop Approves Marian Apparitions
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Relative of Princess Diana on the Way to Sainthood
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Vatican investigation has declared Passionist Father Ignatius Spencer, the great, great, great uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales, to have lived a life of heroic virtue, thus paving the way for his eventual canonization.
Will Promiscuity Doom Wikileaks Founder?
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even though many believe he should be tried for treason, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is currently in British custody for crimes allegedly committed in a lifestyle of one-night-stands and reckless promiscuity.
Bioethicists Decide It's Ethical to Stunt Growth in Disabled
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 20-member group of doctors, ethicists and parents of disabled children has come to the conclusion that deliberately stunting the growth of disabled children to make them easier to care for is "morally permissible" under certain conditions.
US Student Test Scores Still Lag Behind Global Competition
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of massive public education reform programs in the past decade, U.S. students are still only achieving "average" scores in reading and science compared to the rest of the world, and below average scores in math.
Christian Teen Murdered for Faith
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the wake of the Baghdad bombing of a cathedral that left dozens dead, news has surfaced from Somalia about a teenage girl who, after being repeatedly tortured by her own parents for embracing Christianity, was found shot to death in a neighboring community.