By Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(March 11, 2008) The hit television show, American Idol, is planning to host its second annual Idol Gives Back show on April 9 which will urge viewers to donate to charities that are associated with abortion and radical population control programs.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 10, 2008) The vast number of Catholics without a spiritual director because of the priest shortage will find comfort in the advice given by the “Pope’s Preacher” in a Lenten meditation delivered to Pope Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia - try the Bible!
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 10, 2008) An official of the Apostolic Penitentiary is warning priests and the faithful about new forms of sin that have arisen in today’s globalized culture. These sins include polluting the environment, genetic engineering, excessive wealth, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 7, 2008) Only a day after news broke that an Arizona nurse admitted to performing abortions at a Planned Parenthood clinic, a state House committee voted 6-3 to prohibit nurse practitioners from performing abortions in that state.
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(March 7, 2008) A popular ABC morning show shocked viewers this week with a show portraying a top executive at Microsoft and new father who decided to become a woman as just another one of those “complicated choices” in life.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 6, 2008) The American Family Association (AFA) is warning parents to be aware that thousands of schools across the nation will be observing a “Day of Silence” on April 25 which will promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 6, 2008) Two years after being so badly beaten she was left in what many believed was an irreversible coma, 14 year old Haleigh Poutre has now recovered enough to testify against the man who abused her.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 6, 2008) A Los Angeles Appellate Court judge stunned the nation’s home-schooling community when he ruled that home schooling is not an option in the state of California and parents who home school their children could face criminal sanctions for doing so.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 5, 2008) An article appearing in a major medical journal gives evidence of wide-spread fraud and influence peddling at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This has led to the suppression of evidence supporting the link between abortion and oral contraceptives and breast cancer.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(March 5, 2008) Just after midnight on March 3, the body of St. Pio of Pietrelcina was exhumed at San Giovanni Rotondo shrine where it had been buried since his death in 1968. The exhumation took place in order to have the body prepared to go on public display next month in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of his death.
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