By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Belgian couple who could not imagine life without one another after one was diagnosed with terminal cancer, were euthanized together this week, even though the spouse was in good health.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine has issued a statement criticizing the doctrinal orthodoxy of a textbook written by Sr. Elizabeth Johnson of Fordham University in which she suggests, among other things, that in order to fully understand the truth about God, we need Jesus plus Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, etc.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Less than a week after the pro life group, Children of God for Life,
announced a boycott of companies associated with Senomyx, a biotech firm that uses aborted fetal cell lines to test their artificial flavor enhancers, a second company has announced that they have disaffiliated themselves with the firm.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The heroic band of workers who have been risking their lives to prevent the meltdown of four stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan have told their families they fully expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Obama Administration has begun to write the policies that will enforce an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military - known as the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy - many of which will either stifle the free expression of religion in the armed forces or force Christian chaplains out of service altogether.
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Because of the easy accessibility of information on Satan worshipping on the web, more and more young people are becoming involved in Satanism, which has resulted in an increased demand for the services of exorcists.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that pro-life laws are part of the reason why abortion rates have declined in the last two decades.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Christopher Hitchens, one of the world's most famous atheists, has turned to the well-known evangelical American scientist, Dr. Francis Collins, to treat his cancer.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Citizens in Munson Township, Ohio are fighting another case of political correctness run amok after township trustees decided to abolish all references to Easter for this year's Easter Egg Roll and are now calling it "The Spring Egg Hunt."
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the same week that the California Senate Education Committee advanced a law that will require the state's public schools to rewrite their social science curriculum to promote homosexuality, the chaplain at a private Catholic high school in Indianapolis is being accused of spreading "anti-gay propaganda" for explaining Church teaching on homosexuality in class.
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