Prestigious Scientist Resigns Over “Climategate”

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

In what some are calling the most important moment in recent scientific history, a prestigious scientist has quit the American Physical Society (APS) because of the contoversy surrounding climate change, which he calls “the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”

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Pope Benedict Calls for “False Gods” of Terrorism to be Unmasked

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Just before opening the first working session of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops in Rome this week, Pope Benedict denounced “terrorist ideologies” that promote violence in the name of God.

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ACLU Planning Attack on Religious Hospitals

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is launching an effort to force religious hospitals to provide abortions by asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to strip them of their federal funding if they refuse to comply.

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Priest Encourages Catholics to Vote Like Catholics

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Father Richard Perozich, a priest of the Diocese of San Diego, has published a hard-hitting letter to Catholics in which he explains what our role must be in the public square if we can ever hope to bring about real change to society.

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Hazelden’s “Thoughts for the Day”

LS writes: “My friend receives a daily meditation from ‘Today’s Gift at Hazelden’.  She is  a member of Al Anon and I suppose her group suggested the readings.  She sent me one of her meditations that particularly touched her.  I thought it sounded very New Age.  The piece was written by Maxwell Maltz.  Is this websight considered to be New Age?”

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