By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Exit polls from Tuesday's historic midterm election is showing that the high turn out among evangelicals, Catholics and other social conservatives played a major role in sweeping the GOP into power.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The same group of terrorists who are responsible for the massacre of 58 Catholics in a Baghdad Cathedral last weekend has published a letter on the Internet threatening the Vatican that unless they intervene in the release of two women who they claim are being held hostage by Coptic Christians, all churches and Christian organizations will become a "legitimate target for mujahedeen."
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TA has sent me a list of interesting questions about different alternative medical techniques which I will investigate and report on individually.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the wake of a bloody massacre of 58 Catholics during Mass in a Cathedral in Baghdad this weekend, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See, implored the U.N. to do more to protect Christians from violence.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Three judges who voted to legalize same-sex marriage in the state of Iowa have been voted out of office by an angry electorate who is now considering a drive to overturn the 2009 court ruling that made the marriages legal.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A record number of ballot initiatives in yesterday's election produced some losses for the pro-life movement, as well as for the legalization of marijuana and the ObamaCare mandate that would force citizens to buy health insurance.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A wave of incoming pro-life conservative lawmakers have not only stripped the gavel from the hands of pro-abortion Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the U.S. House but will now have enough control to make substantial inroads for the protection of life in our country.
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I want to share this news story with our New Age blog friends. It contains a teaching from Archbishop Dolan on the Communion of saints and why this means Catholics have been enjoying "harmony with the universe" much longer - and in a much more authentic way - than New Agers who are always carping about wanting to be "one with the universe."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
If the outcome of today's vote lives up to expectations, conservatives will seize control of the House today along with a sizeable pick up of seats in the Senate which will force President Obama to greatly reduce the scope of his legislative ambitions for the next two years.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the most recent spate of violence against the Christian community in the Middle East after al Qaeda terrorists killed 58 Catholics who were attending Mass on Sunday in the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad.
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