By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While all eyes are focused on the abortion funding in ObamaCare, a little noticed provisions which will expand access to family planning and contraceptives are quietly being implemented.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new Republican majority in the House Foreign Affairs committee is targeting the massive funding enjoyed by the United Nations, an organization plagued by corruption that is heavily involved in promoting radical population control and environmental programs around the world.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Despite being the coldest day of the winter thus far, tens of thousands of Americans jammed the streets of Washington yesterday to stand for life with newly elected pro-life lawmakers promising support for life while the nation's president used the occasion to recommit himself to abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Initial reports are claiming at least 31 people have been killed and more than 130 others injured when suspected Islamic suicide bombers blew themselves today up in a crowded arrivals area in Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The priest whose real life experience is the basis for a new movie about exoricism scheduled for release this Friday, is praising the film for its positive portrayal of the Church and for its witness to the power of faith.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After a citizen complained to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that the state's Senate was violating the separation of church and state because it sometimes invoked the name of Jesus in their prayers, the legislative body has become the first state legislature in the country to do away with the tradition of praying for blessings upon their work.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an address to members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the Vatican office that decides annulments, Pope Benedict asked priests to do a better job of screening candidates for marriage and to feel free to decline a nuptial ceremony because "no one can make a claim to the right to a nuptial ceremony."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An elementary school teacher at Markham Elementary School in Oakland, California has been suspended indefinitely after a pair of second-graders stripped and two others performed oral sex in class while the teacher looked on.
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A French couple involved in a worldwide cult known as the Ramtha School of Enlightenment are being sought in South Africa for the shooting death of a policeman.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The release of a grand jury report on the West Philadelphia abortion clinic that was dubbed a "shop of horrors" by investigators reveals that Pennsylvania's Department of Health (DOH) deliberately chose not to enforce laws that require much higher safety standards in the state's abortion clinics.
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