by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 6, 2008) The American Family Association (AFA) is warning parents to be aware that thousands of schools across the nation will be observing a “Day of Silence” on April 25 which will promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 6, 2008) Two years after being so badly beaten she was left in what many believed was an irreversible coma, 14 year old Haleigh Poutre has now recovered enough to testify against the man who abused her.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 6, 2008) A Los Angeles Appellate Court judge stunned the nation’s home-schooling community when he ruled that home schooling is not an option in the state of California and parents who home school their children could face criminal sanctions for doing so.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 5, 2008) An article appearing in a major medical journal gives evidence of wide-spread fraud and influence peddling at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This has led to the suppression of evidence supporting the link between abortion and oral contraceptives and breast cancer.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 5, 2008) Just after midnight on March 3, the body of St. Pio of Pietrelcina was exhumed at San Giovanni Rotondo shrine where it had been buried since his death in 1968. The exhumation took place in order to have the body prepared to go on public display next month in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of his death.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 5, 2008) An Arizona nurse practitioner has requested permission to perform surgical abortions from the state Board of Nursing after admitting that she has been performing the procedure for some time. If permission is granted, other states may follow suit.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 5, 2008) Pope Benedict XVI affirmed Church teaching on the role of women in every aspect of society when he received the credentials of former Harvard law professor, Mary Ann Glendon, as the eighth U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See on February 29.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Mar. 3, 2008) For the first time ever, a California transplant surgeon has been charged with hastening the death of a patient in order to harvest his organs. The charges are sending shockwaves through the transplant community and dampening the hopes of 85,000 Americans who are currently waiting for organs.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Mar. 3, 2008) A popular baptism rite incorporating an “inclusive language” version of the Trinity has been declared invalid by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). Anyone who received the sacrament of baptism under this formula must be baptized again.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 29, 2008) The United Nations estimates that 200 million girls are currently “missing” from the planet as a result of sex-selection abortion, largely because of a preference for boys in many Asian cultures. While most of us have been unaware, the same practice of fetal sex testing has been becoming increasingly more acceptable in North America.
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