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ACLU Pressures Hawaii Senate into Ending Daily Prayers

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

After a citizen complained to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that the state's Senate was violating the separation of church and state because it sometimes invoked the name of Jesus in their prayers, the legislative body has become the first state legislature in the country to do away with the tradition of praying for blessings upon their work.

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Pope: Marriage is not a "Right"

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In an address to members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the Vatican office that decides annulments, Pope Benedict asked priests to do a better job of screening candidates for marriage and to feel free to decline a nuptial ceremony because "no one can make a claim to the right to a nuptial ceremony."

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PA Dept of Health in Hot Water After Grisly Abortion Clinic Find

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The release of a grand jury report on the West Philadelphia abortion clinic that was dubbed a "shop of horrors" by investigators reveals that Pennsylvania's Department of Health (DOH) deliberately chose not to enforce laws that require much higher safety standards in the state's abortion clinics.

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Egypt Cuts Off Dialogue with Vatican

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Rather than engage in peaceful dialogue about ways to stem the rising tide of anti-Christian violence in Egypt, that country's highest Islamic authority, al-Azhar, announced yesterday that it is freezing all dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over what it considers to be the Pope's repeated "insults toward Islam."

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