By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A Catholic mom posing as a teen on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook discovered these sites to be a "cultural wasteland" full of sexual inuendo and pornography where thousands of registered sex offenders freely roam. In an effort to offer kids a safer place to socialize on line, this tech savvy mother of five decided to create one herself.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI recognized International Women’s Day by calling on the world to renew their commitment to treat women with “complete respect for their dignity.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President Barack Obama is expected to announce today that he will rescind the prohibition on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research put in place by President George W. Bush in 2001, thereby forcing taxpayers to fund the destruction of human embryonic life.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City is calling the nomination of Kansas’ Catholic Governor Kathleen Sebelius “troubling on both a personal and policy level.”
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After several hours of oral arguments, justices on the California Supreme Court seemed unlikely to overturn Proposition 8, a Nov. 4 ballot initiative in which the people of California voted to amend their constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Administrators at Stonehill College, a Catholic institution, recently defended Church teaching when they stopped a student from distributing birth control on campus.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In an effort to prevent the emergence of another “Octomom,” a Georgia state senator has introduced legislation to limit the number of embryos that can be implanted in a woman's uterus during in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A federal appeals court has ruled that an Oregon man who says he was sexually abused by a priest can pursue a civil lawsuit against the Vatican.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While pro-lifers across the nation are focused on fighting a national “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA), similar bills are cropping up in state legislatures that are threatening to decimate abortion restrictions at the state level.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The state of Oregon is reporting a 30 percent increase in the number of people who died by assisted suicide in the last two years.
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