Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Whenever a public figure wants the press to bury a story, they make their announcements on a Friday, and this is precisely what the infamous president of the Catholic Health Association (CHA), Sr. Carol Keehan, did last week when announcing on Friday that she no longer supports the controversial birth control mandate.
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Scientists are unable to identify the reason why the average age for puberty in girls has dropped five years in the last century, with girls now as young as five years old showing signs of maturity.
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Instead of receiving a lesson about HIV-AIDS, fifth graders in a small Washington State elementary school received graphic instructions on oral and anal sex, sparking outrage among their parents.
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After meeting with the heads of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Rome this week, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), said that while he hopes the group will be more faithful to the Church in the future, they could face decertification if they don't.
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The Vatican may soon make it easier for all of us to recognize an authentic Catholic website by applying for control of a new Internet extension ".catholic" which will give them the ability to control who is permitted to use it.
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There's been much speculation about the women's vote and how the so-called "war on women" will impact the 2012 election, but to be sure there are plenty of votes to count, a new campaign has been launched to motivate American women to make sure their voices are heard this November.
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Every nine seconds a woman in the U.S. is abused or assaulted, most often by an intimate partner. These dire statistics are behind a new recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to see all women of childbearing age routinely screened for intimate partner violence.
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Father Shenan J. Boquet, president of Human Life International, invites all Catholics to pledge to pray the Rosary daily during the USCCB's Fortnight for Freedom, June 21 - July 4.
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A prestigious British bioethics group has given the thumbs up to a controversial procedure that uses eggs from two different women to produce an embryo in order to help couples avoid the risk of having a baby with certain genetic diseases.
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A new study found that women who use depo provera, a type of injectable contraceptive, have a 2.2 fold increased chance of developing breast cancer.
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