By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In the latest article in a series dedicated to the Year for Priests, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix takes a thorough look at the devil in the life of the Cure of Ars, St. John Vianney, and the faithful in general.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
According to Caritas Internationalis, one of the world's largest Catholic aid organizations, the first annual “World Humanitarian Day,” celebrated yesterday, marked one of the deadliest years on record for global aid workers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pro-life leaders across the country are calling on President Obama and his allies to “walk the talk” after he participated in a conference call with “progressive” religious organizations in which he denied the many anti-life provisions that are present in the current health care plan.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) launched a Web page promoting its support of “truly universal health policy with respect for human life and dignity.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Robert Novak, the Catholic convert and pro-life columnist who first revealed the news that Obama’s health secretary Kathleen Sebelius once held a secret party for the notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller, has died at the age of 78.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is delaying a bid by biotech company Geron Corp. to become the first to conduct human trials with embryonic stem cells, pending review of new studies.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
If the current version of health care reform passes, it would do much more than just provide taxpayer funding of abortion on demand. The bill also contains a section that could allow Planned Parenthood to open clinics in public schools.
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From time to time we hear from people at the apostolate who are fairly convinced that God just doesn't answer their prayers. Is it possible that we can petition the Lord and He would turn a deaf ear to us? Not if we understand the nature of God.
As St. John tells us in his epistle, God is love (1 John 4:8). And love, defines Pope John Paul II, is an act of total self-donation. All we need do is look at a crucifix to see the truth of it: "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that everyone who believed in Him might not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
So, it logically follows that if God is love, and love is an act of total self-donation, then God to be God,
must give us all of Himself. He, who is Perfect Goodness, must give us the Good Who is Himself. Therefore, we can deduce that God not only answers our prayer, but
must always be answering our prayer.
Why, then, does it sometimes seem like He isn't? Three reasons may well answer this question.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After winning the right to end his life, an Australian quadriplegic says he could still be dissuaded from killing himself.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In a rare but temporary victory for the pro-life movement, the radical pro-abortion Dawn Johnsen, the president’s pick to head the Office of Legal Counsel, is heading back to teaching at Indiana University after her nomination has been indefinitely delayed.
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