By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
National outrage has caused the proponents of a bill granting lay people financial control of Catholic parishes in Connecticut to withdraw the draft legislation citing constitutional difficulties.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President Barack Obama’s decision to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the U.S. has drawn swift condemnation from the Vatican and the Christian community throughout the world.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Recently declassified documents reveal that former President Ronald Reagan tried to convert Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Christianity as the two worked toward ending the Cold War.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new investigation by
Fox News is uncovering major problems in U.S. textbooks that are presenting a biased view of Islam and sugarcoating the facts about Islamic terrorism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While the Obama administration prepares to dump billions of taxpayer dollars into the controversial and now obsolete embryonic stem cell research, people who have been helped with adult stem cell technology are struggling to pay the bills because of insufficient funding.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A Catholic mom posing as a teen on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook discovered these sites to be a "cultural wasteland" full of sexual inuendo and pornography where thousands of registered sex offenders freely roam. In an effort to offer kids a safer place to socialize on line, this tech savvy mother of five decided to create one herself.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI recognized International Women’s Day by calling on the world to renew their commitment to treat women with “complete respect for their dignity.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President Barack Obama is expected to announce today that he will rescind the prohibition on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research put in place by President George W. Bush in 2001, thereby forcing taxpayers to fund the destruction of human embryonic life.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City is calling the nomination of Kansas’ Catholic Governor Kathleen Sebelius “troubling on both a personal and policy level.”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After several hours of oral arguments, justices on the California Supreme Court seemed unlikely to overturn Proposition 8, a Nov. 4 ballot initiative in which the people of California voted to amend their constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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