By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new report issued by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs warns of a serious “capabilities gap” in American foreign policy due to an "uncompromising Western secularism" that feeds religious extremism, threatens traditional cultures and fails to encourage religious groups that promote peace and human rights.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New research has found that that women who conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) have a four-fold risk of stillbirth compared to women who conceive naturally.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Papal Nuncio of Haiti is pleading for help in resurrecting the crumbled remains of the major seminaries in Port-au-Prince.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
International outrage is growing over an Italian Facebook group that is calling for children with Down Syndrome to be gotten rid of by using them as targets at shooting ranges.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In keeping with mountains of evidence that children fare best when raised in households headed by a married man and woman, lawmakers in Arizona have introduced a bill that will give preference to married couples in adoption cases.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what is being called the largest sexual abuse case in the state’s history, a Delaware grand jury indicted a popular pediatrician yesterday on 103 counts of sexual abuse of children.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A pro-life lawmaker in Virginia is under fire for saying that medical research suggests abortions raise the risk of miscarriage and birth defects in subsequent pregnancies and that those findings echo the Bible's teaching that abortion is wrong.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 52 year-old Louisiana woman and convicted pedophile pleaded guilty yesterday to selling two children to a couple in exchange for a cockatoo and $175.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Prolife leaders across the nation are reacting to President Obama’s new health care proposal which will force taxpayers to fund abortion, making it impossible for Catholics to support his plan.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Police investigating a doctor who involved in the death of a woman during an abortion in his office, made a horrifying discovery during a search of his clinic – dozens of frozen embryos – some as old as 30 years – found in a freezer.
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