By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops have sent a letter to each member of the U.S. Senate urging them to support a “fair and just health care reform bill” that excludes mandated coverage for abortion, and upholds longstanding laws that protect conscience rights.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a letter sent to our new Vatican ambassador, Miguel Diaz, Pope Benedict XVI urged him to uphold the “inalienable right to life from the moment of conception to natural death.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Placards featuring pictures of aborted babies greeted Supreme Court justices, two Cabinet members and Vice President Joe Biden as they entered the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC for the annual Red Mass.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has awarded EWTN founder Mother Mary Angelica and Deacon Bill Steltemeier, chairman of EWTN’s Board of Governors, the Cross of Honor for distinguished service to the Church.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even with abortion funding imbedded in every health care reform bill currently moving through Congress, Planned Parenthood’s president says pro-life citizens are way ahead of abortion supporters when it comes to contacting legislators about their cause.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A lawsuit filed by a Cincinnati lawyer this past summer claims that 50 women have died after they began taking a trendy new birth control pill known as Yasmin or Yaz.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new poll has found that since the election of the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, public support for abortion has seen the largest drop in one year since pollsters began tracking the topic in 1995. With the exception of Roman Catholic voters, even the concept of “common ground” on the issue is losing public support.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a surprising 12-11 victory, the Senate Finance Committee voted to restore Title V abstinence-only funding to the tune of $50 million a year through 2014.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Blessed Jeanne Jugan, will be canonized in a ceremony at the Vatican on Oct. 11. This saint-to-be, who devoted her life to helping the elderly poor, is especially significant to the American faithful as we debate health care policies aimed at rationing care for seniors.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a statement to mark Respect Life Sunday, October 4, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia called attention to those who are most vulnerable in recent debates on health care reform – the unborn, the poor, the elderly and the immigrant – and called upon Catholics to “examine how well we, as a nation and individually, are living up to our obligation to protect the rights of those who, due to age, dependency, poverty or other circumstances, are at risk of their very lives.”
