By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a book scheduled to be released tomorrow, Pope Benedict XVI says that while he is not opposed to the practice of receiving Communion in the hand, he encourages the faithful to kneel and receive the Lord on the tongue out of respect for the Real Presence.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Contrary to what the secular media has been trumpeting all weekend, a Vatican spokesman has clarified that statements made by the Pope in an upcoming book about the use of condoms to avoid transmission of AIDS does not contradict Church teaching, but rather affirms it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center has found that attitudes toward marriage are changing in America, but two-thirds of Americans remain optimistic about its future.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Officials at Georgetown University have told students that they are willing to consider "gender-blind housing" on campus that would "not take into account gender when assigning housing to students."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The first official act of the new conservative majority in the House was to ask the Lord to come to their assistance as they vowed to "give Him thanks in the great assembly."
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PA writes:
"I have a wonderful Catholic doctor who recently told me to try Tea Tree oil for a skin infection my 6 year old had. She also gave me a prescription for a topical antibiotic if the oil did not work. I have used essential oils for medicinal purposes for a number of years and have had good results with them. We have not used them for serious illnesses, mostly just skin problems, viruses, tummy aches etc. I used the Tea Tree oil and within a couple days the infection stopped spreading and by the end of one week was completely gone. Is Church teaching against this?"
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI made an urgent appeal yesterday to the leaders of Pakistan to spare the life of a Christian mother of five who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy on a trumped up charge of insulting Mohammed.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
For those consumers who wish to make a statement with their Christmas purchases this year, the American Family Association (AFA) has just released the 2010 "Naughty or Nice" list of stores that are either promoting or censoring Christmas.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Concerned citizens need to be aware that a Senate subcommittee is planning to hold a hearing today on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a treaty that promotes abortion, disparages Mother's Day, and would put all aspects of life under the scrutiny of "gender experts."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict has issued a post-synodal apostolic exhortation entitled,
Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], which is considered to be the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (
Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.
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