President Uses Semantics to Avoid Abortion Issue

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

A pro-life Congressman is claiming that President Barack Obama told him in a phone conversation that when he addressed Congress on Sept. 9 and said “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about any of the bills currently pending on the Hill, but his own plan – which only exists theoretically.

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Pope Tells Bishops to Be Realistic, Not too Political

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

While addressing prelates at the close of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI advised bishops to be realistic as far as politics is concerned, but to do so from the perspective of God and His Word.

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