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Measures to End Abortion Funding in Peril on the Hill

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

The latest budget bill which will keep the government running until April 8 has once again failed to include the cut to Planned Parenthood funding that was approved by the House last month. In addition, two Senators who once supported the bills are now either withdrawing or seriously reconsidering their support.

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Marian Shrine Spared Ravages of Japanese Quake

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The church approved apparition site of Our Lady of Akita, in which Our Lady predicted a number of calamities even worse than the March 11 quake that destroyed parts of Japan, was spared major damage in spite of being located in one of the hardest hit areas of the country.

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Plan B Linked to Greater Risk of Heart Disease

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Jeanne Monahan, Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, says there have been a number of media outlets reporting on a link between the morning after pill and an increase in the number of young girls who are developing heart disease.

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Japanese Bishop: People are "Exhausted and Disoriented"

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hirago, of the hard hit diocese of Sendai, Japan, said the tragic 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck the area last Friday has had "a strong emotional impact on society," and has left one priest dead of a heart attack.

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Intense Religious Opposition Thwarts Maryland Same-Sex Marriage Bill

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Even though it was widely expected to pass, Maryland's same-sex marriage bill will be shelved for another year after a last minute effort from black churches and the Maryland Catholic Conference influenced a majority of House members to turn against the bill.

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Baby Joseph Transferred to Catholic Hospital in St. Louis

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Under cover of darkness, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, arrived in Ontario, Canada, Sunday night to rescue Baby Joseph Maraachli from the London Health Sciences Centre and see him safely transferred to a Catholic hospital in St. Louis.

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Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Religious Concludes

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Mother Mary Clare Millea, ASCJ, Apostolic Visitator for Institutes of Women Religious in the United States, held a concluding workshop last week for the religious who assisted with on-site visits to congregations of women religious, signaling the end of the years-long visitation.

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