by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 12, 2008) Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann has issued a public directive to pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius asking her to refrain from receiving Holy Communion until she has taken “the necessary steps for amendment of her life.”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 12, 2008) In the wake of the recent approval of the apparitions of Our Lady of Laus in France, an expert in Mariology from the Mariunum Pontifical School in Rome has published an article explaining the criteria used by the Church to determine the legitimacy of Marian apparitions.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 9, 2008) The man convicted of ordering the murder of an American-born nun in Brazil in 2005 has been acquitted of all charges and set free.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 9, 2008) A British town is providing people of all ages with a “right to die” card instructing doctors not to treat them if they become incapacitated due to accident or illness. Pro-life groups are protesting the cards, calling them a move toward legal suicide.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 9, 2008) Attorneys have come to the defense of several high school students in Virginia who were warned by school officials to stop wearing t-shirts proclaiming the abstinence message “Virginity Rocks!”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 8, 2008) While most Americans are just beginning to feel the pinch of rising food prices, the problem is already causing long lines, personal hardship and even riots and violence in some parts of the world.
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(May 8, 2008) Same-sex marriage may have come one step closer to reality in New York when a New York Court of Appeals declined to hear a challenge to a case that required the state to recognize a same-sex “marriage” contracted outside the state.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 7, 2008) Although we don’t often hear about it, women are still willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save the life of their unborn children. In the past year, two such cases have made headlines.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 7, 2008) A young single mother and her daughter are seated in the front row of the theater, watching a tragic scene unfold on the screen above. In the movie, a little girl, the only child of a single mother, is struck by a car and killed. Instinctively, the young mother and her child grip one another and huddle close in their seats. No words are necessary. Their body language says it all - “Don’t let this happen to us!”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(May 6, 2008) Americans made their movie preferences known at the box office in 2007 and chose family-friendly films such as Ratatouille and Enchanted over atheistic and occult films such as The Golden Compass and Harry Potter by sometimes huge margins.
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