by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Reflecting on the theme of the Israelite’s exodus from slavery to the Egyptians, Pope Benedict XVI’s Urbi et Orbi message delivered yesterday in St. Peter’s Square calls for each of us to experience our own “exodus” from slavery to sin into the promised land of faith in Jesus Christ. He also prayed for peace in the world and a “resurrection” from the despair and mourning in earthquake ravaged Haiti and Chile, the conflicts in Africa and the violent drug wars afflicting so many in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The priest who presided over the trial of Fr. Lawrence Murphy, the Wisconsin priest convicted of molesting deaf boys several decades ago, said that because press reports of the case are so “sloppy and inaccurate,” he has decided to tell the “back story” in order to set the record straight.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a week when Catholics are following the suffering Christ through His death and resurrection, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York is calling on Catholics to support the Pope who is enduring a media firestorm over new sex abuse allegations and who is now suffering some of the same unjust accusations, shouts of the mob, and scourging at the pillar, as did Jesus.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A nationwide doctors group has become the first U.S. medical association to file a lawsuit against ObamaCare, which it says violates the Fifth and Tenth Amendments, the Commerce Clause and provisions authorizing taxation.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
China’s state run media is reporting that the bodies of 21 babies in yellow pastic bags have washed ashore on a riverbank in the eastern city of Jining.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
State legislators in more than a dozen states are looking to pass legislation that will enable them to opt-out of the abortion funding mandate in the recently passed health care reform bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The same man who produced the anti-God book turned movie,
Golden Compass, has revealed that his latest work,
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, is likely to be just as offensive to Christians.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A lawyer accused by colleagues of being “prone to exaggeration” and who has made a career out of suing the Church for alleged sexual abuse by priests, admits that his career goal is to sue the Vatican.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The FBI arrested eight members of a radical “Christian” militia group based in Michigan yesterday on charges that they were conspiring to kill police officers.
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