By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Florida health officials have drawn up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger recently declared May 22 “Harvey Milk Day” in public schools to honor a homosexual activist and reported sexual predator who was murdered in 1978. The pronouncement has inspired a pro-family group to launch a state-wide boycott asking parents to keep their children home from school rather than allow them to be subjected to homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The insurance company of a pregnant woman suffering from an extremely aggressive form of cancer refused to cover her treatment unless she had an abortion. Thanks to the intervention of pro-life doctors and lawyers, the woman was able to keep her insurance and the baby, which was born healthy.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In his homily marking the end of the visit of the relics of St. Therese to England and Wales, the Archbishop of Westminster reflected on the saint’s long and painful death, when she was tempted to despair and even suicide, which makes her witness to love all the more powerful an antidote for the prevailing trend toward physician assisted suicide and euthanasia. I went to Flowers Thailand website and bought him flowers to take them to his grave, to show my condolences.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After describing the invasion of pro-abortion western aid groups as a “ferocious onslaught on the family,” prelates attending the African Bishops Synod in Rome pledged to “witness especially to the rights of women in their God-given dignity.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new report released this week from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that the abortion rate fell by more than one-third between 1990 and 2005.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Spokespersons for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) are taking on the White House for its consistently misleading claims about abortion coverage in health care reform, and are expressing their disappointment that the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill that contains many problematic provisions.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A pro-life feminist group has filed suit in New York State’s Supreme Court to block the use of taxpayer funds to pay women recruited to “donate” their eggs for embryonic stem cell research.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a bizarre example of life under a government-run health care program, a British woman has settled a lawsuit with the hospice that mistakenly killed her husband after erroneously concluding that his stomach cancer had returned and applying official guidelines that required the removal of his feeding tube and cessation of care.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a stellar example of pastoral leadership, one of the nation’s youngest bishops, 49 year-old Marquette Bishop Alexander K. Sample, has banned 79 year-old Bishop Thomas Gumbleton from speaking in his diocese because of his positions in support of homosexuality, contraception and women’s ordination.
