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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Stem Cell Agency Rewards Blasphemous Poem

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded the top prize to a blasphemous poem that mocks Jesus’ words “This is my body” in an October 6 “Stem Cell Awareness Day” poetry contest.

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Judge Rules Health Care Mandate is Constitutional

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

The first official ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in ObamaCare that will force consumers to buy health care coverage came from a Detroit judge yesterday afternoon who determined that Congress does indeed have the power to do so.

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