By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Commission on Family and Life is accusing the U.S. of using foreign aid to pressure the government into providing a more aggressive birth control program.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have disclosed that two mifepristone (RU-486)-induced deaths occurred in the past two years, bringing the total number of reported death related to RU-486 to 12.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A small group of Satanists from Oklahoma who made news a month ago after renting out the Oklahoma City Civic Center for a “public satanic exorcism” has had to regroup after one of their members abruptly dissolved their “church.”
A controversy is brewing over a new program in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts that is depicting yoga positions, and instructions on how to perform them, on the envelopes of parking tickets.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A stunning new report by LifeNews.com reveals that the Obama Administration partnered with the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice in a training seminar co-sponsored by pro-abortion groups that focused on alleged pro-life “violence” – such as prayer vigils and leafleting – at abortion clinics.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The famous New York auction house, Sotheby’s, is hosting an art exhibition celebrating Dante’s “Divine Comedy” that contains a mockery of Christ and profane images of priests.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A controversy is brewing over a new program in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts that is depicting yoga positions, and instructions on how to perform them, on the envelopes of their parking tickets.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a statement to mark Respect Life Month, October 2010, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston addressed direct threats to human life and called Catholics to “constantly witness to the inestimable worth and dignity of each human life through a loving concern for the good of others.” He also encouraged participation in the worldwide “Vigil for All Nascent Human Life” called for by Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Advent.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal appeals court in Washington DC has decided to allow government funding of embryonic stem cell research to continue while the case against it is pending in the courts.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to a new study released by the Pew Research Center, atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
