By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
From the moment he landed in one of Europe's most secular nations, Pope Benedict XVI took on secularism in Spain, encouraging a massive throng of nearly one million youth from 190 countries to build their lives "on the firm foundation" of the Christian faith.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Not even a month has passed since the furor over the indecent display of a 10 year-old in Vogue Paris and the fashion industry in France is under fire again - this time for a lingerie designer whose website is full of pictures of scantily clad girls as young as four sporting makeup, beehive hairdos and a new line of age-inappropriate underwear.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Reflecting on a recent ruling by the bishops of England to reintroduce the discipline of abstinence from meat on Fridays, New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan thinks American Catholics should consider doing the same in order to restore some of our lost Catholic identity.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Arizona appeals court has lifted an injunction that blocked abortion regulationsfrom taking effect, allowing these new and potentially life-saving rules to become law immediately.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An analysis of over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles on marriage and family has found that the divorce rate is down but cohabitation rates continue to rise, putting more children at risk than ever before.
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A 19 year-old man who believes he's a vampire was arrested in Galveston, Texas this past weekend after he broke into a woman's apartment and attempted to bite her on the neck.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican has granted a special concession for World Youth Day (WYD) that will allow youth who have been involved in abortion to be absolved and welcomed back into the Church.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
For those of you who were shocked by our recent article about the pro-pedophilia conference being held in Baltimore this week, you'll be even more appalled to learn how the mainstream media, who never misses a story about the priest sex abuse scandal, provided almost no coverage of this story!
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Parents Television Council® (PTC) has released the results of its latest study, “Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter,” which documents shocking levels of adult content on networks with the highest-rated primetime animated cable shows among children ages 12-17 such as the
Cartoon Network,
Disney Channel, Adult Swim and
Nick at Nite.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The country's teetering economy points to the need for reform on many levels, including the breakdown of the family, experts say, which can cost taxpayers up to $112 billion a year.
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