By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Unless the public steps in to put a stop to it, ABC is working on a pilot for a new sitcom entitled "Good Christian B-tches" which is intended to be a Christian-bashing version of "Desperate Housewives."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Catholics around the world will be receiving their ashes tomorrow to mark the start of the Lenten season, and a UK bishop is asking all to refrain from rubbing off their ashes so that they can "take the sign of the cross" to all those they will meet during the course of the day.
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Actor Charlie Sheen has angered a coven of warlocks from Salem, Massachusetts for what they call his excessive use of the term "warlock" which they say is "a blatant offense against our ways."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A growing trend in U.S. and European public schools to mandate graphic sex ed programs that promote promiscuity and "alternative" lifestyles has reached historic proportions in Germany where teh 10th Christian parent has just been tossed in jail for refusing to allow her children to attend the classes. Attorneys on the case are warning that this trend may soon reach American shores.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Some of the country's top pro life organizations are rallying to the aid of baby Joseph Maraachli in an attempt to get him into a hospital in the United States where he can escape attempts by a Canadian hospital to remove his ventilator and let him die.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced on Friday that the U.S. House will appoint attorneys to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) after President Barack Obama decided it was unconstitutional and instructed the Justice Department to stop defending it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new national poll has found that public support for same-sex marriage is rising with those in favor of the unions on the verge of eclipsing those who oppose it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pressure and outrage from alumni and other supporters has forced administratos at Northwestern University to reverse themselves and condemn a live demonstration of sex that occurred in a "human sexuality" class on Feb. 21 on their Evanston, Illinois campus.
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JH writes:
"I have a friend who had a conversion and has become close to Jesus and Mary. He prays daily, including the Rosary and The Divine Mercy Chaplet. Lately, however, I have become concerned because he started to get messages in dreams to write a book. It is a novel that takes place after the chastisements. He gets all of the information in dreams. He cannot continue to write until he has another dream, so he looks forward to the next dream. It is consuming his life. I am concerned that it is the devil because it seems to me that he is putting more emphasis on the dreams than on God. I cannot discern whether the book is from God or from the devil until it is finished, but I know there are mystical characters in it; in other words, characters that are getting supernatural messages.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Last Saturday's much touted "Walk for Choice" rallies, which were designed to take place in various cities throughout the country to show support for Planned Parenthood in the face of national efforts to defund it, turned out to be poorly attended.
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