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Michigan Priest Under Review for Participating in Forbidden Liturgy

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

In spite of a letter from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron forbidding clergy in his diocese to participate in a Mass that took place during a conference by heretical Catholic groups this weekend, a 78 year-old retired priest defied the ruling and is now under review for presiding over the liturgy.

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Reader Warns P90X Exercise System Includes Yoga and Kenpo

BA writes: "We ordered the popular P90X exercise DVDs. When we discovered yoga was part of the program we promptly shredded that DVD and substitute that day with stretching. Some of the exercises and even stretching positions bother me they just feel so 'yoga like'.  Also, is Kenpo not a good idea?"  

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New Journalistic Low: Newspapers Recruit Volunteers to Scour Palin E-Mails

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Criticism is mounting over the decision by several major newspapers to recruit volunteers to scour 24,000 e-mail messages to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as governor, ostensibly to help them uncover the "most important information."

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Muslim Extremists in Nigeria Bomb Catholic Cathedral

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The inauguration of Nigeria's new Christian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has set off a new wave of violence against Christians by Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria, including a June 7 blast that killed 11 people and caused extensive damage to St. Patrick's Cathedral.

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Offering Polarity Therapy in a Parish Setting is a Bad Idea

CH writes: "My question is about an energy therapy called 'Polarity Therapy'. Polarity Therapy is being done at the Catholic Church of my friend. I assumed that it was an OK therapy for Catholics because the Catholic Priest in charge of the Church and Nuns allow it and have  treatments. I have doubts that it is an approved Catholic therapy."

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