Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Disregard for human life among the "pro-choice" population has stooped to new lows with the third annual National Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon, with teams named "Kiss Our Uter-Ass" and 'Bowlin' for 'Bortions" bowling for dollars to provide abortions to poor women.
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The U.S. Bishop's ninth annual report on the priestly sex abuse problem has found that only a small percentage of cases reported in 2011 were current, with most dealing with allegations made about abuse that occurred decades ago.
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An international women's organization devoted to combating forced abortion and human trafficking has published an impassioned letter to President Barack Obama calling upon him to provide diplomatic protection for Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident and "warrior of women's rights" who recently escaped house arrest after opposing China's brutal one-child family planning program.
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Even though the group of dissident nuns known as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is now under the control of the Vatican, the group's annual convention, scheduled for August and featuring New Age "visionary" Barbara Marx Hubbard, is being permitted to go forward.
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A national survey of law enforcement agencies has found that the sluggish economy has contributed to an increase in domestic violence.
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When forced abortion opponent and blind attorney Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest in China last week and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, he touched off what some are calling the most significant challenge to U.S.-China relations since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
When a gay activist started bashing the Bible and Christian beliefs at a national high school journalism conference, as many as 100 students walked out in protest.
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A prominent Chicago-based law firm has offered to provide free legal services to the Most Rev. Daniel Jenky, C.S.C. of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, after he was reported to the Internal Revenue Service for encouraging the faithful to remember the policies of the current president regarding religious liberty when voting in the upcoming election.
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Speaking on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, U.S. papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano delivered a rousing speech at the Pontifical College Josephinum in which he called on American Catholics to "lead the entire Church in the world" into renewal.
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According to a new study published by the prestigious
Lancet medical journal, U.S. teens lead the world in drug and alcohol abuse and are more likely than their peers in Europe to meet a violent death.
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