By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The House is expected to vote today on a bill that will prevent Democratic leaders, who are expected to lose their majority after the mid-term elections, from using a lame-duck session of Congress to push through controversial legislation before losing power in January.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Authorities in the southern Italian town of Pietrelcina say thieves broke into the chapel at San Giovanni Rotondo this past weekend and attempted to steal a gold reliquary containing relics of the famed Capuchin mystic, St. Pio.
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Satanism is on the rise - and its cruel and despicable rituals are taking place in the backyards of America on an ever increasing basis. To follow is a chilling account about the deliberate theft of a ciborium full of consecrated hosts that appeared in the local press in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania on August 5, 2010.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a time when millions of Americans are out of work and struggling to put food on the table, the First Lady's lavish trip to a luxury resort in Spain that cost American taxpayers an estimated $75,000 a day is earning her the new title of a "modern day Marie Antoinette."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Parishioners at St. Rose of Lima parish in Carbondale, Pennsylvania are in shock after learning that someone broke into their church for the sole purpose of stealing a ciborium full of consecrated hosts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal Francis George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, decried the August 4 decision of a federal judge to overturn a California voters' 2008 initiative known as Proposition 8 that protected marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new documentary produced by the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBCN) reveals the shocking secrets of the infertility industry and how they lure vulnerable young women into the so-called "safe" business of egg donation.
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CF writes:
"I am shocked over the 'A Different Kind of Yoga' article published this week in the Arlington Catholic Herald! It even states that 'because of its foundation in Hinduism, yoga can be a controversial topic in Catholic circles'! This article also quotes from Father John Hardon calling yoga 'incompatible' with Catholicism due to its pantheistic origins. Just what about the First Commandment "I am the LORD thy God - thou shalt have no strange gods before Me' does our diocese not understand?"
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The furor over a cross erected in the front of the presidential palace in memorial to the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash in April has ignited an already heated debate between liberals and conservatives about the role of Church and state in that country.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a startling example of what happens when government runs amuck, health inspectors from the Multnomah County Health Department in Oregon shut down a child's lemonade stand because she failed to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.
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