By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Coast Guard is claiming that a round of shots fired at a boat on the Potomac this morning was a training exercise. The incident occurred moments before President Barack Obama’s motorcade was scheduled to cross one of the river’s bridges.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A well-known pro-life activist was shot and killed this morning outside a Michigan High School. Police report that a suspect has been taken into custody.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an effort to convince Americans that President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening was a success, CNN announced the results of a wildly skewed poll as evidence that he had won new support for his health care initiative.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than half of all Americans polled in a new national survey disagree with the idea that the government has an obligation to provide abortion services under a public health care plan. A substantial number also said they would be less likely to support a plan that includes abortion coverage.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A UK woman whose 21 week old infant was allowed to die due to medical rationing guidelines, said doctors refused to treat her son because he was born two days too early.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Children from around the world are being invited to participate in the annual Worldwide Children’s Eucharistic Holy Hour on Friday, Oct. 2.
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
On the morning after the president’s address to a joint session of Congress last night, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) says he is once again misleading the American public about whether or not he supports abortion funding in the health care plan.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In yet another example of global warming hysteria, UK journalist Richard Pindar reports on research by the London School of Economics (LSE) which finds that contraception is five times cheaper than green technologies for preventing climate change. Pindar recommends that people either stop breeding or governments should put contraceptives in public water supplies.
Yesterday the Church celebrated the Feast of the Birth of Mary and encouraged us to turn our hearts and our minds to her in a special way. She is, after all, the woman whose “yes” birthed Salvation to the world.
Sadly, however, far too many Catholics are leary of Mary. Some fear that a relationship with her will potentially diminish their relationship with Jesus Christ. They fear that to embrace Mary means to let go of Jesus.
Still other Catholics have fallen sway to the Marian misconceptions propagated by Protestantism and proclaimed by its members. They see devotion to her as unbiblical and in some way a sin against the First Commandment.
And finally, some Catholics believe Mary’s intercession isn’t important– why bother if they can go straight to Jesus. After all, wasn’t devotion to her simply the invention of misguided (or worse yet, corrupt) clerics from the Middle Ages? Who needs her anyway?
The plain fact is — we all need Mary! Devotion to Mary is not capricious, it is abundantly beneficial. Devotion to her wasn’t started by clerics in the Middle Ages, but by her Son, Jesus Christ. The Bible does not prove Marian devotion is non-essential but actually proves just the opposite . Read the rest…
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Amidst the controversy over Obama’s “green jobs czar”, Van Jones, who was forced to resign this past weekend, a bill designed to shut down the dangerous practice of appointing “czars” by executive privilege has been introduced in the House.
