By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Church is mourning the loss of one of its greatest and most revered theologians, Avery Cardinal Dulles, who died Dec. 12 at Fordham University in New York at the age of ninety.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A network of Christian lawyers has vowed to launch a vigorous defense of Luxembourgh’s Grand Duke Henri who will be stripped of his veto power because he refuses to support a law legalizing euthanasia.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President-elect Barack Obama has invited the Lesbian and Gay Band Association to march in the Inaugural Parade. This is the same band that plans to march in this year’s homosexual “Southern Decadence” festival, which is famous for its public lewd acts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Vatican chose the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of the Unborn, to issue a brilliant and sweeping Instruction on various methods of reproductive technology, from in vitro fertilization to adoption of frozen embryos. Dignitas Personae (Dignity of a Person) was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) with the express approval of Pope Benedict XVI.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An Italian bishop is calling on parents to stop giving their children "ridiculous" names and revert to traditional Christian names instead.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archeologists have found unopened vases of aromatic oils dating from the first century AD in the ancient Palestinian town of Magdala, from where Mary Magdalene gets her name.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI’s World Day of Peace message for Jan. 1, 2009, entitled “Fighting Poverty to Build Peace” highlights much more than just the material poverty experienced in the world today. He calls attention to “tragic situations of poverty” such as the spiritual and moral malaise in the West, the lack of proper healthcare in developing nations, greed-driven financial systems and the threat globalization poses to the poor.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As a result of a judge’s ruling, Montana has become the third state to legalize physician-assisted suicide by allowing physicians to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients without threat of criminal prosecution. The man who brought the case died naturally on the same day the decision was handed down.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Catholics in the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin are being warned not to read a book written by a suspended priest detailing the secret proceedings of a church tribunal. Madison Bishop Robert C. Morlino says those who read it could be committing a “canonical crime.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Oxford University Press has decided to delete words such as sin, devil, altar and bishop from the new Oxford Junior Dictionary and replace them with more contemporary words such as celebrity, MP3 player and tolerant.
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