By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what many consider to be a risky political move, lawyers for the Obama Administration have officially petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging the constitutionality of portions of the president’s health care reform law, which means a decision could come in the middle of the 2012 presidential election.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Although it is receiving little attention in the mainstream media, a groundbreaking new study published in a respected scientific journal has found that for some persons, a change in sexual orientation is possible, and without the harmful effects believed by many mental health experts.
“We must be pure. I do not speak merely of purity of the sense. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions. To possess purity of life – in this, all consists.”
St. Peter Julian Eymard
For Reflection:
How does purity of will, of intention, of action lead to purity of life in all things?
AW writes: “My sister is seeing a Maximized Living Doctor and is getting other members of the family in for ‘adjustments.’ Do you know anything about this philosophy and is there anything we should be concerned about as practicing Catholics?”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
BabyJoseph Maraachli, the terminally ill baby caught in a high-profile battle between the hospital that wanted to end his life and the parents who wanted to bring him home to die, passed away peacefully at home yesterday.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A proposed new rule by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which would give the government unfettered access to health records on every single citizen is being called as an excessive power grab that will result in giving the government “undue power over life-and-death medical decisions.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Princeton law professor Robert P. George says that the conflict between religious liberty and same-sex marriage is fast becoming the predicted legal “trainwreck” in states where the unions have been sanctioned.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards could not have been happy on September 15 when she was served with a letter from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce announcing the opening of an official investigation and demanding financial and other documentation dating back 20 years in an effort to ascertain if the company is misusing federal funds and violating the law regarding the reporting of suspected sexual abuse and the aiding and abetting of sex traffickers.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A powerful grass roots movement of Catholics and other Christians from around the world will host the 19th Annual International Week of Prayer and Fasting next week to pray for the conversion of nations.
