By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
This weekend, Catholic churches throughout the nation will be conducting the annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an organization that has been embroiled in controversy recently for funding political organizing groups such as ACORN.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The head of the pro-abortion caucus in the U.S. House, Rep. Diane DeGette, is coming under fire for voicing her belief that religious groups should be prevented from participating in the abortion debate in Congress.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Responding to comments made this weekend by White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod that President Obama would strip abortion restrictions made to the House health care bill, the author of the restrictions, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), said doing so would only cause the bill to stall on the Hill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Despite threats from lawmakers to punish the Church’s involvement in health care reform by revoking its tax-exempt status, Cardinal Francis George defended the Church’s right to enter this debate because it is their responsibility “to insist as a moral voice . . . that everyone should be cared for and that no one should be deliberately killed.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The largest publisher of homosexual newspapers in the U.S. has shut down, forcing a string of newspapers and journals across the nation to close as well.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show that sexually transmitted diseases are continuing to rise, especially among teens.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A national alliance of Christian attorneys has issued a letter to the Judge Advocate at Fort Hood, Texas, urging him to charge the suspect in the Fort Hood massacre with the killing of all 14 victims in the Fort Hood massacre, including the pre-born child of Private Francheska Velez.
"All murder victims--born and pre-born--deserve equal justice," said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Senior Legal Counsel Steven H. Aden in a press release. "Women who volunteer to protect our country deserve to know that the government will enforce the laws that protect their children."
To date, military prosecutors have charged Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder after last week's shooting at Fort Hood but have not yet charged him with the death of Velez's child, now known as "Baby Velez." Army officials have indicated that additional charges against Hasan are under consideration.
The ADF letter urges enforcement of Article 119a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which makes it a crime for anyone "to cause the death...of a child, who is in utero at the time the conduct takes place" regardless of whether the killer intended to kill the child.
"According to press accounts, Private Velez had returned to America from Iraq a week before the shooting," the letter states. "Private Velez was three months pregnant and was excited about being a new mother. She was scheduled to begin maternity leave next month. She was filling out paperwork relating to her pregnancy when she and her child were killed...
"It would cause a severe and negative impact on morale if Army women were made to believe that the Army valued their children less than they did adult victims of crime. We respectfully request that you enforce UCMJ Article 119a against the suspect."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After suffering a bitter defeat at the hands of voters this month, gay activists in Maine are taking aim at the tax exempt status of churches that rallied their congregations to vote for a repeal of the state’s gay marriage law.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone looking for the perfect gift for Catholic friends and family this year may want to consider a new CD from the Vatican which includes a hymn sung by Pope Benedict XVI and prayers recited by him in five languages.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The nation’s largest pro-family group has just released its 2009 “Naughty or Nice” list to help Christians find and support retailers who are “Christmas-friendly.”
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