By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Friends and family are grieving the loss of a twenty-five year old recent college graduate with a serious heart condition who died two weeks after giving birth to the baby she refused to abort.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Muslim rights groups in Cordoba, Spain are pressuring the local bishop for a “joint use” agreement that will entitle them to share usage of the Cordoba Cathedral in order to alleviate the need among the growing Muslim immigrant population in that country for worship space.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of five U.S. citizens is charging that the insurance mandate included in the new health care reform bill violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 by forcing them to buy insurance from companies whose tenets violate their religious beliefs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an attempt to appeal to fanatical soccer fans around the world, World Cup sponsor Hyundai ran an ad in the U.S. during the England-USA matchup on Saturday that shows a soccer ball crowned with thorns being processed into a Catholic church where worshipers kneel to receive bites of pizza instead of communion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Modern x-ray techniques have helped researchers to analyze the incorrupt body of St. Rose of Viterbo and determine that she died of a heart ailment rather than the tuberculosis that historical records indicate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that children conceived by in vitro fertilization who do not know their biological fathers struggle with questions of identity and suffer from higher rates of depression, isolation, delinquency and substance abuse compared to children raised by two parents.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New government data for 2009 has found that dozens of UK teens aged 17 or younger who terminated a pregnancy last year already had at least two previous abortions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Speaking to nearly 15,000 priests at the closing Mass of the Vatican’s Year for Priests in Rome on Friday, Pope Benedict XVI said that sin, satanic influence and the toleration of heresy are at the root of the sex abuse scandal.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A California woman whose estranged husband took her son and daughter to Mexico 15 years ago was using a library computer when she typed her daughter’s name into Facebook and found the teen who said she was living with her father near Orlando, Florida.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A publishing company has sparked a national controversy after putting a disclaimer on copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and other historical documents which warns readers that the writings are a product of their time and do not reflect the same values they would if written today.
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