by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 11, 2008) A new report reveals that Susan G. Komen for the Cure donated more than $700,000 to the nation’s largest abortion provider fiscal year 2005-2006 in spite of a substantial body of evidence supporting a link between induced abortion and breast cancer.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 10, 2008) The peaceful mining town of Bisbee, Arizona has become the center of a raging controversy after the local school board voted to include condoms in the “prom bags” it gives to teens.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 10, 2008) A religious sister who was recently declared a martyr after being killed by Satanists in 2000 received high praise from Pope Benedict XVI for her heroic sacrifice.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 10, 2008) With the Pope’s historic visit on the horizon, the lay Catholic organization, Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), decided it was the perfect time to publish a full-age ad in the New York Times calling for “structural change” in the Church.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 9, 2008) German Cardinal Karl Lehman says a new report detailing the Church’s use of forced labor in Germany during World War II is “a burden of history that our Church will keep facing up to in the future.”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 9, 2008) After years of study and debate about the treatment potential of embryonic stem cells, a leading researcher in England has conceded that the controversial research may never deliver new treatments.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 9, 2008) With objectionable content occurring every three minutes during the 8 to 9 p.m. Family Hour of television, a renewed commitment from NBC to honor this time slot with more family-friendly fare shows that broadcasters may finally be listening to parents’ complaints.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 8, 2008) The emergence of “new models of the family” and “widespread relativism” makes the role of grandparents in the family more important than ever, says Pope Benedict XVI. They are “a treasure that we cannot take away from new generations.”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 8, 2008) The symbolic flame of the Olympic torch is illuminating the long and sordid history of human rights abuses by the People’s Republic of China. The protest-ridden route is far from what the Chinese government wanted for its “journey of harmony,” but many say this harmony needs to begin at home.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(April 8, 2008) The symbolic flame of the Olympic torch is illuminating the long and sordid history of human rights abuses by the People’s Republic of China. The protest-ridden route is far from what the Chinese government wanted for its “journey of harmony,” but many say this harmony needs to begin at home.
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