By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In order to solve our health care problem, the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) is urging American Catholics to look for ways to apply Church teachings to the solution.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While speaking at a dinner in Washington DC last Friday evening, Archbishop Raymond Burke said funeral rites should not be given to pro-abortion Catholic politicians.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The 49 year-old Australian quadriplegic who won the right to have his feeding tube removed just five weeks ago, died in a nursing home in Perth of a chest infection on Sunday night.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A priest who nearly died after being stabbed 20 times while hearing a man’s confession said he is living one of the most important lessons in the Bible - forgiveness.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A woman who had 15 abortions in 16 years has written a book chronicling her dark past, not to warn women about the physical and emotional pain of having repeat abortions, but to “eliminate the stigma of abortion.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Two Pennsylvania prelates have issued a statement of support for the embattled Christopher West, whose work promoting Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" came under fire after he made controversial statements on ABC’s Nightline last spring.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The leader of a major pro-life group who was invited to the White House last Thursday to discuss abortion in health care reform left the meeting “deeply concerned” about the Administrations refusal to explicitly exclude abortion from bills currently circulating in Congress.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Father Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, said there need be no opposition between belief in aliens and belief in God.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A 12 year-old boy who returned to school after summer vacation as a girl caused such an uproar in a UK school that teachers were forced to call an emergency assembly to deal with the problem.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The president of the University of Notre Dame has issued a letter announcing a series of pro-life initiatives to be undertaken on-campus, saying these decisions came “out of the vigorous discussions surrounding President Obama’s visit last Spring . . .”
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