LW wrote to us months ago to inquire about a New Age gimmick known as a Scalar Energy Pendant that she bought from "devout Catholic ladies" during a recent pilgrimage. The pendant alleges protects the wearer from electromagnetic radiation emitting from things like cell phones and computers.Shortly after she began wearing it, she began to experience restlessness, weepiness and anxiety. But things apparently got much worse. I'll let her explain the rest in her own words.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Hundreds of protestors, called into the streets and halls of the Wisconsin state Capitol today by union bosses, are trying to halt what appears to be almost certain passage of a bill intended to help the cash-strapped state by forcing drastic cutbacks in union workers' exorbitant pension and health care plans.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A UK teen and former Wiccan who gave it all up to convert to Catholicsm has created a stir throughout the neopagan world by publishing a booklet on the dangers of witchcraft.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Newly released documents from a member of the commission tasked with discerning whether the Church would allow the use of artificial contraception show that Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae in spite of the fact that a majority of the members were in favor of changing Church policy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Thomas More Law Center filed a petition this week with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that it reverse a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision which upheld San Francisco’s virulent anti-Catholic resolution.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new iPhone app, Confession: A Roman Catholic App, has not only risen to the number one spot on Apple's "Lifestyle" app chart, but it's drawing people back to Confession for the first time in years and is even being used by non-Catholics as a useful examination of conscience.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican issued a rare decree yesterday in which it ordered St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Adams, Massachusetts, and two other churches in the Springfield diocese to reopen as places of worship.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A three year-old boy who was born with key parts of the brain either missing or severely atrophied has doctors stumped as he continues to progress far beyond what medical science says a person in his condition should be capable of achieving.
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Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami is warning the faithful not to fall into the trap of New Age "spirituality" which demands no more faith than going to the movies and is little more than "self-absorbed seeking after self-fulfillment."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Institute for Emerging Ethics and Technologies (IEET) has launched a new program that has as its goal the granting of rights to "non-human persons" such as dolphins, apes and other "higher mammals" who they believe are deserving of human rights.
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