By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journal
A school board meeting in Helena, Montana was filled to capacity Tuesday night with parents concerned about a new sex education program aimed at children as young as kindergarten.
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Pope Chooses Religious Freedom as Theme for 2011 World Day of Peace
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has chosen religious freedom as the theme for the celebration of the 2011 World Day of Peace.
Poll Shows Major Shifts Ahead in American Politics
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New polls are showing that American voters are rapidly losing faith in the Obama Administration with solid majorities now saying they will vote for the opposing party this November just to put a check on the power of both Congress and the President.
Kagan Confirmation Vote Delayed
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Conservative members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have managed to delay the vote on the confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing concerns about her lack of judicial experience and several controversial positions she took regarding military recruiting at Harvard and the partial birth abortion debate.
First Federal Funds for Abortion Allocated Under ObamaCare
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone needing proof that ObamaCare will use taxpayer money to fund abortion can now look to the state of Pennsylvania where the Obama Administration has just agreed to give the state $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program that will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
Parents Beware! McDonald’s “Happy Meal” Game Based on Sorcery
This blog is from a concerned parent who received a game based on sorcery that came with a McDonald’s Happy Meal. Notice the little girl’s response when she saw the game – evidence of how sensitive children are to spiritual matters!
BP Installs New Containment Cap on Leaking Gulf Well
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
British petroleum giant BP has successfully lowered a new and better fitting containment cap onto a well that has been gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 84 days. Pending the result of tests being conducted today and the closing of several vents on the cap, the spill could be halted as early as this week.
Media Praise Pro-Abortion Episode on NBC’s “Friday Night Lights”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The mainstream media are applauding an episode of NBC‘s “Friday Night Lights” in which a pregnant high-school girl decides to have an abortion after a high school principal advises her to consider only her own interests without any mention of the life of the child.
Issue of Women Bishops Fractures Church of England
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After the leaders of the Church of England rejected a compromise that would have averted a schism on the issue of female bishops, seventy Anglican clergy have met with the Catholic Church to discuss conversion to Catholicism.
Despite Billions in Aid, Haiti Remains Desolate After Quake
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12 of this year, the apostolic nuncio says the country still looks just as it did the day after the quake.
