By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of the ongoing sex abuse crisis in the Church, a new poll by Zogby International has found that American Catholics overwhelmingly approve of Pope Benedict XVI, even though the majority believe both he and the U.S. bishops have done a poor job handling the sex abuse crisis.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study conducted by Consumer Reports magazine has found that a majority of Americans continue to post detailed personal information on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace in spite of the high risk of cyber crime.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
It has just been revealed that a leader of the 1989 Tiannamen Square protests has converted to Christianity, and says one of the reasons for her decision was the country’s one-child policy which causes “a daily Tiannamen massacre” every day in China.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what some are calling a harbinger of things to come now that ObamaCare is law, a caseworker for the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Pennsylvania is being accused of pressuring a Philadelphia teen into a late-term abortion by threatening to take away her toddler and the unborn child should she decide to go through with the pregnancy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The evangelical preacher who was abruptly disinvited to speak at the Pentagon during tomorrow’s National Day of Prayer events because of negative comments he once made about Muslims, accused the Obama Administration of giving Islam a pass while persecuting Christians for their beliefs.
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I don’t know about you, but I get this stuff all the time - the latest New Age hyper-sell to land in my inbox is the Home Enlightenment and Self Realization Program by Sri Sutrananda which uses a combination of Jnana, Raja, Bhakti, Karma, Hathaa and Kunda yoga to take users on a journey of “spiritual discovery and self realization.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan who admitted to an attempt to driving a car bomb into Times Square on Saturday evening was arrested late yesterday as he sat in a plane on the runway of JFK Airport that was bound for Dubai.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After praying before the famous Shroud of Turin on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI described it as being an “icon written in blood” that wrapped the remains of a crucified man “in full correspondence with what the Gospels tell us of Jesus.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Only weeks before a crucial Anglican synod that will debate whether or not to ordain women as bishops, a group of key Traditional Anglican bishops revealed that they met last week with Vatican officials to begin the process of allowing priests to convert en masse to Catholicism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In yet another example of the modern-day persecution of Christians, a 42 year old Baptist street preacher was arrested in the UK over the weekend by a homosexual police officer for saying that same-sex relationships went against the word of God.
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