by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 25, 2008) In spite of the fact that the Democratic party platform includes support for abortion, embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage - social positions that are opposed to Church teaching - a new poll by Georgetown University says Catholics are leaning toward the Democratic party in this year’s election.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 25, 2008) Culture-conscious consumers who want to spend their hard-earned cash on products produced by companies that promote traditional family values may want to take the Heinz label off their shopping list. The company’s latest commercial advertising deli-style mayo features a homosexual “family” and two men kissing.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 25, 2008) Major media coverage of the Gloucester High School “pregnancy pact” is blaming everything for the problem but the obvious - a lack of moral education.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 24, 2008) The arrest of a 48 year old abortion clinic owner in San Diego for performing abortions without a medical license, and employing a long list of unscrupulous doctors, is revealing the dark side of “safe, legal abortion” in the United States.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 24, 2008) Only a day after the divorced and remarried Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was told to ask a “higher power” about relaxing the rules preventing him from receiving Communion, Pope Benedict XVI boldly reiterated that only those Catholics in a state of grace can receive the Eucharist.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 24, 2008) Newly released data from a Pew Forum research project reveals that 70 percent of Americans – including 79 percent of the Catholics polled – do not believe their religious tradition is the only way to eternal life, even if their churches teach otherwise.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 23, 2008) A grass roots effort by citizens against funding Planned Parenthood is being cited as the reason why lawmakers killed an amendment to the 2008 War Supplemental Bill that would have given Planned Parenthood facilities discounted drugs at taxpayer expense.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 23, 2008) While Americans may like to read about the rich and famous in the tabloids, most don’t define the American dream by those standards. When polled, three quarters of American adults say that being in good health, living a life of integrity and having one marriage partner for life is their idea of a wonderful life.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 23, 2008) During a homily broadcast live from Rome, Pope Benedict XVI told participants at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress that he hoped one outcome of the Congress would be to encourage a greater study of Church teaching on the Eucharist. “Study in groups or individually,” he said, “so that you can live this mystery more intensely.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 20, 2008) Parents using in vitro fertilization methods to conceive children in New Zealand may soon be given the right to choose the sex of their babies.
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