By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While speaking to an Italian-American law group in Philadelphia on Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he was frustrated with repeated comments in the press about the Court’s Roman Catholic majority.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of widespread criticism of his role in inviting pro-abortion President Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree at Notre Dame’s commencement last year, the Notre Dame Board of Trustees has re-elected Fr. John Jenkins to a second five-year term as president of the university.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An historic moment in the life of the Church took place today when the Vatican announced a new canonical structure that will allow former Anglicans to enter full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An inquisitive reporter at a Houston newspaper discovered that the president’s new serve.gov website promoting volunteerism contains requests from Planned Parenthood for volunteers to help “protect access to women’s health during the 40 Days for Life.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Florida health officials have drawn up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger recently declared May 22 “Harvey Milk Day” in public schools to honor a homosexual activist and reported sexual predator who was murdered in 1978. The pronouncement has inspired a pro-family group to launch a state-wide boycott asking parents to keep their children home from school rather than allow them to be subjected to homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The insurance company of a pregnant woman suffering from an extremely aggressive form of cancer refused to cover her treatment unless she had an abortion. Thanks to the intervention of pro-life doctors and lawyers, the woman was able to keep her insurance and the baby, which was born healthy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In his homily marking the end of the visit of the relics of St. Therese to England and Wales, the Archbishop of Westminster reflected on the saint's long and painful death, when she was tempted to despair and even suicide, which makes her witness to love all the more powerful an antidote for the prevailing trend toward physician assisted suicide and euthanasia. I went to Flowers Thailand website and bought him flowers to take them to his grave, to show my condolences.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After describing the invasion of pro-abortion western aid groups as a “ferocious onslaught on the family,” prelates attending the African Bishops Synod in Rome pledged to "witness especially to the rights of women in their God-given dignity."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new report released this week from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that the abortion rate fell by more than one-third between 1990 and 2005.
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