by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 18, 2008) A string of vandalisms and desecrations in Catholic cemeteries and churches throughout southern Minnesota has prompted Bishop Bernard Harrington of the Diocese of Winona to suggest that a “satanical attitude” may be responsible for at least some of those attacks.
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 18, 2008) While speaking at a campaign rally in Steubenville, Ohio, Former President Bill Clinton accused a group of pro-life students of wanting to “criminalize women and their doctors.”
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 18, 2008) One of America’s most popular advice columnists, Dear Abby, can no longer be trusted to promote traditional morality and is instead promoting moral relativism.
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by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 18, 2008) Only a month after launching a year-long teaching of the “New Age bible” known as A Course in Miracles, Oprah Winfrey is now promoting the teachings contained in the latest book by another New Age author, Eckart Tolle, with a 10 week on-line course beginning March 3.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 15, 2008) A massive study conducted by Swedish researchers has concluded that active father figures play a key role in reducing behavioral problems in boys and psychological problems in young women.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 15, 2008) The five year waiting period before opening a cause for beatification has been waived for Sister Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of the three shepherd children to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
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USCCB Releases Landmark Study on Catholics and Marriage
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 14, 2008) Catholics who attend Mass regularly are more likely than those who don’t to be currently married, to have more children, to have a Catholic spouse, and to be familiar with Church teaching on marriage.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 14, 2008) This week’s news from the medical and biotech industries is a study in contradictions. While news was announced of a British toddler cured of cancer with adult stem cells and scientists confirmed a recently discovered alternative to embryonic stem cells, a biotech firm in the U.S. announced plans to test embryonic stem cells on humans.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 13, 2008) Fewer Catholic campuses are willing to host an offensive play known as The Vagina Monologues, traditionally shown around Valentine’s Day, as protests by students, U.S. bishops and the faithful begin to make an impact.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 13, 2008) One of the most under-reported news stories in the secular media today is the effect of the decline of the human family on global population rates. But a new documentary by experts from around the world is about to make headlines.
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