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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The past month has seen major breakthroughs in adult stem cell research and yet we barely heard a word about it in the press. Why not?

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

A growing Facebook trend known as "planking" is being blamed for the death of a 20 year-old Australian man and has prompted calls from officials to put an end to the bizarre fad.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A blockbuster new study by Oxford University has found that religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a finding that could have a profound implications for religious freedom worldwide.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In the wake of the Navy's aborted to attempt to authorize their chaplains to perform same-sex marriages, the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower has introduced a new amendment that will prohibit the unions from taking  place on military bases.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The Philippine government has announced that any Catholic who refuses to pay their taxes in support of a radical reproductive health bill being debatedin Congress will be charged for civil disobedience.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In yesterday's general audience celebrated in St. Peter's Square, the Pope reflected on  "how prayer and religious feeling are a part of humans throughout their lives."

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Just hours after Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law that cuts off all taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider filed for a temporary restraining order to block implementation, but a federal judge has refused to grant it.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

An Australian woman diagnosed as being hopelessly "brain dead" after suffering a massive stroke unexpectedly awoke, prompting doctors to call her case a "miracle."

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Homosexual activists forced Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Vidmar to resign his position as the U.S. chef de mission for the 2012 Olympic Games after it was discovered that he donated $2,000 to Proposition 8, California's ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Late yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Navy responded to pressure from dozens of House members by abruptly suspending implementation of a decision that would have allowed chaplains to perform same-sex unions when the Pentagon approves the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy later this year.

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