By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In what is sure to be an unprecedented display of media bias,
ABC News will broadcast a special report on the President’s health care plan from within the Blue Room of the White House on June 24. Opposing viewpoints will not be presented.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A crisis in the Austrian Catholic Church prompted a special meeting in Rome on June 15 between Pope Benedict XVI and Austrian bishops. The Church in Austria has been troubled for years by dwindling numbers and widespread dissent.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
New York has become the first state in the nation that will allow the use of taxpayer money to pay women to have their eggs extracted for stem cell research.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
According to a new Gallup poll, conservatism is on the rise in the U.S. with 40 percent of Americans now describing themselves as conservative and only 21 percent saying they are liberal. These new numbers represent a three percentage point increase in conservatism among the public at large.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An icon of St. George in a Greek Orthodox church in Ramla, Israel is drawing blocks of Christians after it began to leak a mysterious oil.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In another example of the incredible waste of human life that takes place routinely in fertility clinics around the world, a British woman who conceived after receiving another couple’s embryo by mistake decided to abort the child. The aborted baby was the couple’s final embryo and their last hope for a child.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
On the great Feast of Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI warned the faithful to avoid “empty Eucharistic worship” and to look to Mary as an example of the kind of faith and love with which we should adore the Eucharist from our hearts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During a recent interview, Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, said the recent Notre Dame scandal of inviting pro-abortion President Barack Obama to speak at its 2009 commencement has served to sensitize people to the shame of abortion and to realize how dangerous it is for Catholic institutions to pursue prestige in the secular world at the expense of fidelity to Christ.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
For unknown reasons, the White House has purged its website of any mention of the president’s campaign promise to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and filed a Supreme Court brief yesterday where they defended DOMA as being a valid exercise of Congress’ power.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, has announced that it will not support President Obama’s government-sponsored insurance plan, a position that is considered to be a setback for advocates of a public insurance plan.
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