Members of the school board of Provincetown, Massachusetts are suffering “shell shock” today after their decision to provide free condoms to all students in their school district, irregardless of age and without parental notification, sparked a national outcry.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that people who are devout in their faith fell less defensive and less anxious when they make mistakes compared with non-believers.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Outrage is growing over the selection of a 10 year-old boy to serve as grand marshal of the Northwest Arkansas Gay Pride Parade this weekend, an action that many are calling “child abuse.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
With backroom tactics similar to those used to force health care reform through Congress, the U.S. House passed the highly partisan DISCLOSE Act designed to muzzle grassroots political voices such as the Tea Party in time for the November election.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Catholic church in New York City is listed as a participant in this weekend’s Gay Pride March even though Archbishop Timothy Dolan explicitly asked the parish not to do so.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to a recent poll, 41 percent of Americans believe Jesus will return by the year 2050, 68 percent of younger Americans believe we will experience another world war during that time and 31 percent believe the earth will be struck by an asteroid.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon is planning to open a “Death with Dignity” house in a suburban neighborhood where the terminally ill can come to kill themselves.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a White House reception for gay activists in honor of gay pride month, President Barack Obama announced that he intends to expand the existing family leave law in order to include the needs of same-sex couples.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Parents of students at an Iowa high school are expressing outrage over a graphic sex ed program produced by Planned Parenthood that was shown to their children.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone wondering why Comedy Central seems to be so anti-Christian need only listen to a strange interview on National Public Radio (NPR) with one of the show’s correspondents who who reveals it was like to be raised by a Wiccan and atheist while attending a “progressive” Catholic school and calls mocking the Church “pure joy.”
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