By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Serious concerns are being raised about Kevin Jennings, a homosexual activist appointed by President Obama to be the nation’s “Safe Schools Czar,” after memoirs surfaced in which Jennings wrote about his deep-seated hatred of God and religious believers and how he once bid God farewell with the words, “Screw you, buddy.”
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In a televised address to participants in the UN summit on climate change, which was held in New York City on Sept. 22, Pope Benedict XVI said that because the natural environment is given by God to everyone, “our use of it entails a personal responsibility towards humanity as a whole, particularly towards the poor and towards future generations.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Even though the language has been changed, the new health care bill sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has the same “death panel” provision as the House bill, only the “judges” sitting on this new panel are accountants.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City responded to statements made during a recent
Washington Post interview with Kathleen Sebelius, the pro-abortion Catholic Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, where she blamed the “separation of church and state” for her persistent pro-abortion position that resulted in her being banned from Communion.
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Staff Journalist
Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee voted down an amendment proposed by Republicans that would require a 72 hour waiting period and a full cost estimate to be done before allowing a final committee vote on the health care reform bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Spanish bishop has devised a test Catholics can take during this Year for Priests to assess just how much they appreciate their priests.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an ominous sign of the times, a Census worker was found hanged in a rural Kentucky county with the word “fed” scrawled across his chest.
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Staff Writer
A mix-up at a fertility clinic resulted in a woman becoming pregnant with a child who was not her own. Although these mistakes usually result in abortions, the couple decided to go through with the pregnancy and will give the baby to his biological parents.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Although the event was completely ignored by the media, more than 60,000 people showed up in Times Square on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. to pray for the city and the nation.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Vatican has announced that the 50th International Eucharistic Congress will take place in Dublin from June 10-17, 2012.
According to the Vatican Information Service, the theme for the next Congress will be “The Eucharist: Communion with Christ and with one another."
"The choice of theme arises from the fact that the celebration of the congress coincides with the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Vatican Council II which, as Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has affirmed, was a moment of renewal for the Church's teaching and for her understanding of herself as Body of Christ and Body of God," the announcement explains.
"The theme has its direct inspiration in paragraph 7 of the Constitution 'Lumen gentium' which reads: 'Really partaking of the body of the Lord in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread, we are taken up into communion with Him and with one another. 'Because the bread is one, we though many, are one body, all of us who partake of the one bread.' In this way all of us are made members of His Body, 'but severally members one of another.’”
The communique goes on: "The archbishop of Dublin has also emphasised the possibility of developing the theme of the next International Eucharistic Congress by reflecting on certain important topics such as: communion with Christ as a foundation for Christian life; the Eucharist as a way of life for clergy, Christian families and religious communities; the gesture of 'breaking bread' as a principle of Christian solidarity; the Eucharist, seed of life for the world of suffering and fragility; and ecumenism and the sharing of the one bread.”
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