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Pope: Marriage is not a "Right"

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In an address to members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the Vatican office that decides annulments, Pope Benedict asked priests to do a better job of screening candidates for marriage and to feel free to decline a nuptial ceremony because "no one can make a claim to the right to a nuptial ceremony."

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PA Dept of Health in Hot Water After Grisly Abortion Clinic Find

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The release of a grand jury report on the West Philadelphia abortion clinic that was dubbed a "shop of horrors" by investigators reveals that Pennsylvania's Department of Health (DOH) deliberately chose not to enforce laws that require much higher safety standards in the state's abortion clinics.

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Egypt Cuts Off Dialogue with Vatican

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Rather than engage in peaceful dialogue about ways to stem the rising tide of anti-Christian violence in Egypt, that country's highest Islamic authority, al-Azhar, announced yesterday that it is freezing all dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over what it considers to be the Pope's repeated "insults toward Islam."

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Abortionist Charged with Murdering Newborns with Scissors

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

An abortionist whose practice catered to poor minorities has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of one woman and seven babies who were born alive and then killed by severing their spinal cords with a scissor.

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