By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Same-sex marriage has already forced the Church out of the adoption business in many U.S. states where the unions are sanctioned, but it is now threatening to force the Church out of the marriage business too, says Archbishop Barry Hickey of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, who says he'll stop performing marriages altogether if forced to conduct the unions.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Only months after becoming the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage, the state of New York is once again pushing the cultural envelope by considering a proposal to allow Medicaid to cover transgender surgery and hormone replacement therapy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Census Bureau admitted this week that it had "artificially inflated" the number of same-sex couples in the U.S. by about 40 percent and has issued a revised number they say is more accurate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An international pro-life group has discovered that 11 of the 15 members of the Committee on Preventive Services for Woman of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the group that advised the Department of Health and Human Services HHS to force all private health insurers to pay for FDA-approved contraception, are either tied to major pro-abortion groups or to politicians who support that ideology.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A high school health teacher in California deducted 25 points from a student's grade because he caused an "interruption of class time" by saying "bless you" to a fellow student.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what many consider to be a risky political move, lawyers for the Obama Administration have officially petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging the constitutionality of portions of the president's health care reform law, which means a decision could come in the middle of the 2012 presidential election.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Although it is receiving little attention in the mainstream media, a groundbreaking new study published in a respected scientific journal has found that for some persons, a change in sexual orientation is possible, and without the harmful effects believed by many mental health experts.
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AW writes:
"My sister is seeing a Maximized Living Doctor and is getting other members of the family in for 'adjustments.' Do you know anything about this philosophy and is there anything we should be concerned about as practicing Catholics?"
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
BabyJoseph Maraachli, the terminally ill baby caught in a high-profile battle between the hospital that wanted to end his life and the parents who wanted to bring him home to die, passed away peacefully at home yesterday.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A proposed new rule by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which would give the government unfettered access to health records on every single citizen is being called as an excessive power grab that will result in giving the government "undue power over life-and-death medical decisions."
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