By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a bizarre new tactic to avoid airport screening devices, Al Qaeda terrorist groups are having explosive devices implanted in the breasts of female homicide bombers during plastic surgery.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) expressed apprehension about whether or not the President’s executive order would adequately prevent federal funding of abortion and said he was concerned about the divisions in the Church that became apparent during the health care debate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A representative of the Pakistani Bishops’ Conference is calling on the United States to raise the issue of human rights violations against Christians, which cause many to be treated no better than animals, during the summit currently underway between Washington and Pakistani leaders.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a shocking display of disrespect for human life, an episode of
The Family Guy airing during prime time on Fox featured a satire mocking the life and death of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who was starved to death in 2005 after a lengthy court battle.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a high school senior from Washington state who was forbidden by school officials to play an instrumental version of “Ave Maria” at her graduation.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Despite repeated claims by the administration that Obamacare does not include abortion funding, a statement by Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards calls the President’s Executive Order a “symbolic gesture” and applauds the fact that the bill “does not include the Stupak abortion ban.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican entered the world of Twitter this weekend when it launched a feed in six languages.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Legal organizations as well as state attorneys general are planning to unleash a tsunami of lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare today, which could result in mass noncompliance with the unpopular law if successful.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A group of pro-life activists plan to stand outside the gates of St. Peter’s holding signs asking for the excommunication of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and demanding that Washington DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl, who continues to give her Communion, to be replaced with a prelate who has “true Apostolic valor.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The man Pope John Paul II referred to as the “Apostle of Life,” Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, 89, beloved founder of Human Life International, died March 20 after 40 years of pro-life activism.
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