by Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
(Feb. 13, 2008) Pope Benedict XVI says Christians must do more to promote a culture that grants women the dignity that is theirs by right and resist cultural pressures to relegate women to either second-class status or to a kind of autonomy and self-sufficiency that traps them in a “state of oppressive solitude.”
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Church Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Lourdes Apparitions
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 11, 2008) Today the world celebrates one of the most famous mystical events in modern history - the apparitions of the Blessed Mother to a poor French schoolgirl named Bernadette Soubirous in a grotto near Lourdes, France.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 11, 2008) Stories attesting to the power of faith during times of disaster are pouring in from all over the tornado ravaged south which left 59 people dead last week.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 8, 2008) News analysts are giving the major media a failing grade for its less than adequate coverage of the 2008 March for Life, and some believe the annual failure to accurately report on such a major news event leaves both sides at a disadvantage.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 8, 2008) “Prayer is the primary and foremost weapon with which to face the struggle against the spirit of evil,”said the Holy Father from the basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome’s historic Aventine Hill on Ash Wednesday.
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by Susan Brinkmann OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 7, 2008) Lauren Marie Richardson was only 21 years old when she overdosed on heroin in August, 2006, fell into a coma and was put on life support. Because she was three months pregnant, doctors kept her alive until her daughter was born in February of 2007, then withdrew life support, at which time everyone expected her to die.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 7, 2008) Angry parents in Virginia Beach were unable to convince authorities to permanently remove posters of scantily clad teens on display at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in a local mall because the risque photos do not meet local obscenity standards.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 7, 2008) The husband of an Oregon woman suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease shot his wife in the head after she asked him to kill her.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 5, 2008) A years-long effort to convince government agencies to provide medical classification codes for natural family planning has resulted in the establishment of two new codes.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(Feb. 5, 2008) In the same week that Pope Benedict XVI warned against allowing reproductive technology to trump human dignity, British scientists announced the formation of an embryo with three parents and claim to have found a way to enable lesbian couples to have their own
biological children.
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