by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 15, 2008) A massive study conducted by Swedish researchers has concluded that active father figures play a key role in reducing behavioral problems in boys and psychological problems in young women.
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Cause for Beatification of Sister Lucia to Begin
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 15, 2008) The five year waiting period before opening a cause for beatification has been waived for Sister Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of the three shepherd children to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
USCCB Releases Landmark Study on Catholics and Marriage
USCCB Releases Landmark Study on Catholics and Marriage
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 14, 2008) Catholics who attend Mass regularly are more likely than those who don’t to be currently married, to have more children, to have a Catholic spouse, and to be familiar with Church teaching on marriage.
A Week Full of Stem Cell Contradictions
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 14, 2008) This week’s news from the medical and biotech industries is a study in contradictions. While news was announced of a British toddler cured of cancer with adult stem cells and scientists confirmed a recently discovered alternative to embryonic stem cells, a biotech firm in the U.S. announced plans to test embryonic stem cells on humans.
Vulgar Play Gets Snubbed
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 13, 2008) Fewer Catholic campuses are willing to host an offensive play known as The Vagina Monologues, traditionally shown around Valentine’s Day, as protests by students, U.S. bishops and the faithful begin to make an impact.
New Film Warns of “Demographic Winter”
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 13, 2008) One of the most under-reported news stories in the secular media today is the effect of the decline of the human family on global population rates. But a new documentary by experts from around the world is about to make headlines.
Pope Benedict Says Christians Must Promote Women’s Dignity
by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 13, 2008) Pope Benedict XVI says Christians must do more to promote a culture that grants women the dignity that is theirs by right and resist cultural pressures to relegate women to either second-class status or to a kind of autonomy and self-sufficiency that traps them in a “state of oppressive solitude.”
Church Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Lourdes Apparitions
Church Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Lourdes Apparitions
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 11, 2008) Today the world celebrates one of the most famous mystical events in modern history – the apparitions of the Blessed Mother to a poor French schoolgirl named Bernadette Soubirous in a grotto near Lourdes, France.
Faith Amidst the Ruins
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 11, 2008) Stories attesting to the power of faith during times of disaster are pouring in from all over the tornado ravaged south which left 59 people dead last week.
Media Black-Out of March for Life Could Backfire
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 8, 2008) News analysts are giving the major media a failing grade for its less than adequate coverage of the 2008 March for Life, and some believe the annual failure to accurately report on such a major news event leaves both sides at a disadvantage.
