By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An alumni group at Notre Dame announced yesterday that the university has lost nearly $14 million in donations from alumni and donors who feel disenfranchised by the trend of Notre Dame’s leadership to abandon its Catholic identity.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI will grant a plenary indulgence to priests and the faithful during the Year for Priests, which will run June 19, 2009 through June 19, 2010.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new at-home test kit to determine the sex of an unborn child at only eight weeks is being made available in Australian pharmacies beginning this week. Doctors and pro-life groups fear the test will be used as a means of sex selection and result in driving up abortion rates.
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
Archbishop Rembert Weakland, former head of the Milwauke archdiocese, is releasing his memoirs this June in which he reveals his struggles with being homosexual.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During a press briefing at the White House yesterday, press secretary Robert Gibbs used inaccurate facts to diminish the scope of the protest being waged against Notre Dame’s invitation to pro-abortion president Barack Obama to speak and receive an honorary law degree at this Sunday’s commencement.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The renowned Catholic thinker, Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, says Christopher West’s presentations of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body are irreverent and insensitive to the “tremendous dangers” of concupiscence.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Are people with homosexual tendencies "born that way?" Not according to the American Psychological Association (APA) which has published a revised opinion on the possibility of a “gay gene” being responsible for same-sex attraction. The organization now says “no findings have emerged” that permit science to prove the existence of a “gay gene.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI”s perceived lack of remorse for the Holocaust during a speech on Monday is causing a chorus of criticism from Israelis who think he glossed over the genocide and failed to apologize for what many Israelis believe was Catholic indifference during World War II.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new study has found that the abortion drug, RU-486, fails anywhere from 16-23 percent of the time, resulting in an incomplete abortion that can cause major medical problems, including death.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI politely left an inter-faith meeting in Jerusalem after a leading Palestinian cleric delivered a speech in which he attacked Israel for “killing Gaza’s children”, “bulldozing Palestinian homes” and “destroying mosques.”
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