By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has announced that his dicastery is planning to publish a new document on the after-effects of abortion which is expected to be completed next year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A complaint has been filed against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan asking that she be disbarred for her role in falsifying an expert medical report regarding partial birth abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
If passed, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” recently introduced by pro-life Congressmen in the U.S. House, will institute a permanent, government-wide statutory ban on all taxpayer-funded abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world’s first human clinical trial of a therapy involving embryonic stem cells, a move that has been condemned by the Vatican as "unacceptable."
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Embattled New York Governor David Paterson, who recently dumped his reelection bid after coming under investigation in a domestic violence case, has begun wearing a kabbalah bracelet which he hopes may help to ward off some of the bad luck that has been dogging him this year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A religion instructor who was fired by the University of Illinois for teaching the Roman Catholic stance on homosexuality has been reinstated and will return to his job this fall.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An environmental group is trying to disrupt Holy Land tours to the river Jordan by saying the waters are too polluted to be used for baptisms.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A member of the U.S. House has already collected 162 of the 218 co-sponsors needed to advance a discharge petition that will repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
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On July 26
th, Father Ed and myself attended the Reuben Studdard, Clay Aiken concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL. It was a wonderful evening, made all the more stellar because of the backstage passes acquired for Father and myself by Reuben’s uncle, Fred Williams. I have known Fred for better than 20 years, and for the past 17 years “Uncle Fred” has been our director at EWTN. We all had a blast as we regaled with music spanning four decades – from the 60’s through the 90’s. If the truth be known, Father Ed and I were both on our feet, “snapping our fingers and shuffling our feet” to the tunes. Enjoy this backstage pic of the three of us – Father, Reuben, and yours truly.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A CBS reporter has discovered that one of the three people who were posed behind President Barack Obama at last week's Rose Garden speech about the need to extend unemployment compensation lost her job last year shortly after being convicted of prescription drug fraud.
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