By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Gay activists in the District of Columbia have launched a new website on which they encourage citizens to report priests who may be gay or otherwise "romantically involved," but only if the priest has supported the Church's position on same-sex marriage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A leading employer’s group in the UK says shutting the office down for the Christmas holiday may be seen as discriminatory by non-Christians, so employers should say they’re shutting down to cut costs because so many employees take off. But those companies that can’t shut for the holiday shouldn’t worry because Christians deserve no special privileges.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sent a strongly worded letter to members of the U.S. Senate on Friday in which they called the Senate health care bill “completely unacceptable.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Vatican official is calling the latest movie in the popular vampire saga,
Twilight, a “moral vacuum with a deviant message.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The feud between Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) is continuing after the Congressman revealed to the press on Friday the contents of a confidential letter he received three years ago from the Bishop asking him to refrain from taking Communion due to his consistent pro-abortion voting record.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Only days after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled the health care reform bill that he and other Senate leaders have been crafting in secret for weeks, the full Senate will be asked on Saturday to vote on whether or not the bill should be brought to the floor for debate.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archbishop of the Filipino Archdiocese of Lipa has formed a new commission to revisit the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary that allegedly occurred in a Carmelite monastery in Lipa in 1948.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An ecumenical group of clergy and scholars concerned about government policies that undermine the sanctity of human life, redefine the institution of marriage and encroach upon religious liberties in the United States, are releasing a statement today informing civil authorities that the signers will not “under any circumstance” abandon their Christian consciences.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Today is the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children, an event sponsored by the United Nations (UN) every year on Nov. 20. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child in 1989.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an op-ed appearing in the
Wall Street Journal, Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, the dean of Harvard’s Medical School, gives the current health care reform process a failing grade and says the people who favor the legislation are engaged in “collective denial.”
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