by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 14, 2008) The 88 year old foundress of the Focolare Movement, Chiara Lubich, passed away in her home in Rocca di Papa (Rome) in the early morning hours of March 14 from a severe respiratory ailment.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 13, 2008) Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, who was found dead today near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. His body was discovered not far from the church where he was kidnapped after conducting the Stations of the Cross on Feb. 29 in a deadly ambush that left three others dead.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 12, 2008) The Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM), a homosexual advocacy group best known for its Pentecost Sunday protests, is planning to throw ashes and blow whistles at the Pope during several scheduled events on his April itinerary.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 12, 2008) Families concerned about having to vaccinate their children with vaccines made from aborted fetuses will soon have an alternative. Researchers at AVM Biotechnology LLC have announced plans to use existing technology to develop morally acceptable vaccines.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 11, 2008) Misbehaving on campus has reached an all-time low. This year’s “Sex Week” at Yale University, a raunchy week-long celebration of porn, sex toys and amorality, made headlines when a porn-movie screening in the law school auditorium went terribly wrong.
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By Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(March 11, 2008) The hit television show, American Idol, is planning to host its second annual Idol Gives Back show on April 9 which will urge viewers to donate to charities that are associated with abortion and radical population control programs.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 10, 2008) The vast number of Catholics without a spiritual director because of the priest shortage will find comfort in the advice given by the “Pope’s Preacher” in a Lenten meditation delivered to Pope Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia - try the Bible!
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 10, 2008) An official of the Apostolic Penitentiary is warning priests and the faithful about new forms of sin that have arisen in today’s globalized culture. These sins include polluting the environment, genetic engineering, excessive wealth, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 7, 2008) Only a day after news broke that an Arizona nurse admitted to performing abortions at a Planned Parenthood clinic, a state House committee voted 6-3 to prohibit nurse practitioners from performing abortions in that state.
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(March 7, 2008) A popular ABC morning show shocked viewers this week with a show portraying a top executive at Microsoft and new father who decided to become a woman as just another one of those “complicated choices” in life.
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