By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Prominent international pro-life organizations are gathering support from around the world for Pope Benedict XVI whose statement questioning the value of promoting condoms as a way to combat AIDS garnered global condemnation from the press and politicians even while scientists and many African leaders say the Pope is right.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The largest newspaper in France got a taste of Catholic ire when it ran a blasphemous cartoon that sparked a worldwide backlash of protest so great it caused the publisher to admit, “the lambs of God can bite!”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI is under attack by the mainstream media and the global HIV/AIDS industry for comments he made en route to Cameroon on Tuesday about how the distribution of condoms only aggravates the epidemic. However, experts on the subject say the Pope is correct and that “profiteering” by AIDS organizations is trumping proven prevention strategies such as abstinence.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Administrators at Stonehill College, a Catholic institution, recently defended Church teaching when they stopped a student from distributing birth control on campus.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Only a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to remove $300 million dollars for contraceptives from President Obama’s stimulus plan, another $335 million was discovered in the bill to fund condoms and sexually explicit “STD prevention” programs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are investing $2 million dollars in cell phone “soap operas” that promote condom use.
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