By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A 39 year-old Nebraska man stole a 300 year-old painting of the Blessed Virgin worth $100,000 to pay for the abortion of a 14 year-old teen who he raped in 2006.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
L’Osservatore Romano reviewed the first of the
Twilight movies and says the characters in this story about a lonely teen and a vampire are so radical it makes the movie seem disconnected from reality.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new Website from the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops (USCCB) will educate Catholics about the forthcoming English translation of the new Roman Missal.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Despite frequent statements to the contrary, a leading non-partisan watchdog group says President Obama is being less than honest when he tells the public that health care reform will not provide government funding for abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A federal lawsuit has been filed claiming the new guidelines for embryonic stem cell research created by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) violate a federal law prohibiting the funding of research in which human embryos are destroyed.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After reading about the traumatizing effects of abortion on-line, reality TV show star Kourtney Karashian decided to choose life for her unborn child.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
It was only the intervention of a neighbor that prevented a 17 year old practitioner of black magic from stabbing his siblings to death.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Responding to attacks by the president of Planned Parenthood criticizing the U.S. bishops work to exclude abortion coverage from health care legislation, an official from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sets the record straight.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In the latest article in a series dedicated to the Year for Priests, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix takes a thorough look at the devil in the life of the Cure of Ars, St. John Vianney, and the faithful in general.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
According to Caritas Internationalis, one of the world's largest Catholic aid organizations, the first annual “World Humanitarian Day,” celebrated yesterday, marked one of the deadliest years on record for global aid workers.
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