By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that infants are capable of learning while asleep, a finding that may one day provide a means to screen for developmental conditions very early in life.
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A new book by a prominent New Age writer is promising to change your life by introducing you to the greatest guiding light of all time – an alignment of universal forces or “falling together” of physical and psychical events known as synchronicity.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Supreme Court has handed down two long-awaited decisions today; one ruling will not allow teens to serve life sentences without parole unless they have been convicted of murder; a second ruling allows federal officials to hold indefinitely inmates considered "sexually dangerous", even after their prison terms are complete.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A nun serving as the administrator of a Catholic hospital in Phoenix has been excommunicated after allowing an abortion to be performed on a patient.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Since the months-long scandal that surrounded the commencement address by President Barack Obama at the University of Notre Dame last spring, the number of controversial speakers at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities declined this year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new Gallup poll has found that President Obama is drawing most of his support from among those people who seldom or never attend church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Italian authorities have deported two Moroccan students who were plotting to kill Pope Benedict XVI during his recent visit to Turin.
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Doctors have completed a 15 day examination of an Indian holy man who says he hasn’t eaten in 70 years and claims to live on a “spiritual life force” alone.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An essay written by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan shortly after Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980 reveals her desire for a more left-leaning government and her disdain for the pro-life movement.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Amidst thousands chanting “Viva o Papa” as he arrived for an historic visit to Fatima yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI used the occasion to consecrate the world’s priests to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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