By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
US dioceses are beginning to introduce measures aimed at preventing swine flu outbreaks such as temporarily banning the cup at Communion, discouraging reception of Communion on the tongue, and eliminating the sign of peace during Mass.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Citizens wishing to express their opinion about the new guidelines for embryonic stem cell research published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are being asked to make those comments on or before May 26, 2009.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new Pew poll found Catholics to be deeply divided Barack Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame later this month. It also found that disapproval of the President’s job performance has almost doubled among practicing Catholics in the last two months.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The battle for the Supreme Court is beginning sooner than expected with the sudden announcement by Justice David Souter that he is planning to retire when the court finishes its work this summer. His departure is unlikely to change the current conservative-liberal split in the Court.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A Rhode Island bishop is calling upon Catholics to shirk their “abysmal” apathy because much can be done to check the advance of those who are “fiercely determined” to impose homosexual marriage on America.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A front page editorial in the Vatican’s official newspaper,
L’Osservatore Romano, under the headline, “The 100 Days That Did Not Shake the World” said the new president has operated with more caution than predicted in most areas, including economics and international relations.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Writing from his prison cell in Turkey, Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, claims he renounced Islam and became a Catholic in 2007.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The first 300,000 names of concerned Catholics and their bishops who signed a petition in protest of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama at this year’s commencement were delivered yesterday to University president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the Board of Trustees and the Board of Fellows. The names of the petitioners is being delivered in time for meetings scheduled to take place on Friday, May 1, at Notre Dame.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) told a recent gathering of priests that during his meeting in March with Barack Obama, the president insisted he was not pro-abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A panel of theological consultors has unanimously agreed that the inexplicable healing of an American man who was "bent double" by a severe spinal disorder came as a result of praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman for a miracle. The decision will allow Pope Benedict XVI to declare him "Blessed.”
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