By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
White House insiders say the Obama’s were planning an ”inclusive” Christmas which would
not have included Christian symbols such as the crèche, and only bowed to tradition at the last moment.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Senate voted last night to defeat an amendment that would have restricted abortion funding in the health care bill, thus insuring more battles to come on this contentious issue.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
U.S. Bishops announced yesterday that they will support an amendment to the Senate health care bill that will prohibit federal funding for abortions. Their support was expressed in a letter to every member of the U.S. Senate who are expected to vote on the measure today.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a break with tradition, the Pope has decided to celebrate Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at 10:00 p.m. rather than at midnight.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to a new report by the worldwide Catholic relief organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), 75 to 85 percent of religious persecution around the world today is suffered by Christians.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After receiving complaints from parents and schools, a distributor of school supplies is being forced to travel throughout the state of Missouri to pull pencils and notebooks that carry Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign logo.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Citing the need to be “neutral,” officials charged with organizing the United Nations (UN) conference on global warming in Copenhagen have banned Christmas trees from the venue.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The public is responding with outrage to a video appearing on the website of a Michigan clinic that presents abortion as “sacred work.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Homosexual activists are planning to run a “mock-u-mentary” on Broadway tomorrow entitled “Santa Claus is Coming Out” which features Santa falling in love with Italian toymaker Giovanni Geppetto.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Despite claims of “universal resistance” to the Vatican Visitation of U.S. nuns, the head of the investigation says the process is moving along just fine.
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