By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI may use the occasion of the June climax of the International Year for Priests as the time to make the first general apology for the abuse of children and minors by Roman Catholic priests.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican has agreed to provide financial support to help establish the International Intestinal Stem Cell Consortium, a project that will investigate the potential use of some of the most unique stem cells found in the human body.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a memo released last night by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the government agency in charge of overseeing the country’s financial institutions, officials report that senior staffers were spending hours viewing porn during office hours.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Complaints about comments made about Islam by evangelist Franklin Graham in the wake of Sept. 11 have caused the Pentagon to rescind its invitation to the preacher to attend its May 6 National Day of Prayer event.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The head of a statue of Our Lady that survived the horrific bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 is making its way to the U.N. in New York on a “pilgrimage of peace.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The head of the embattled community organizing group, ACORN, told a group of young people that they should be proud to call themselves socialists and used the rise of the Tea Party movement to warn about increased racial persecution in the days ahead.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together yesterday to denounce the recent decision by a federal judge declaring the National Day of Prayer to be unconstitutional and announced plans to call on Attorney General Eric H. Holder to appeal the ruling.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even while insisting that he would not impose a “litmus test” on abortion rights, President Obama made it perfectly clear that he will nominate a Supreme Court justice who shares his view that "women should have the ability to make often very difficult decisions about their own bodies and issues of reproduction."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have identified a correlation between the rise in autism rates and the advent of vaccines containing cells from aborted fetuses.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After more than 50 women, some as young as 17, lost their lives to the trendy new birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin, the manufacturer has finally added new warning information to the product label.
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