By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Conservative members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have managed to delay the vote on the confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing concerns about her lack of judicial experience and several controversial positions she took regarding military recruiting at Harvard and the partial birth abortion debate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone needing proof that ObamaCare will use taxpayer money to fund abortion can now look to the state of Pennsylvania where the Obama Administration has just agreed to give the state $160 million to set up a new "high-risk" insurance program that will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
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This blog is from a concerned parent who received a game based on sorcery that came with a McDonald's Happy Meal. Notice the little girl's response when she saw the game - evidence of how sensitive children are to spiritual matters!
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
British petroleum giant BP has successfully lowered a new and better fitting containment cap onto a well that has been gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 84 days. Pending the result of tests being conducted today and the closing of several vents on the cap, the spill could be halted as early as this week.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The mainstream media are applauding an episode of
NBC's "Friday Night Lights" in which a pregnant high-school girl decides to have an abortion after a high school principal advises her to consider only her own interests without any mention of the life of the child.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After the leaders of the Church of England rejected a compromise that would have averted a schism on the issue of female bishops, seventy Anglican clergy have met with the Catholic Church to discuss conversion to Catholicism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12 of this year, the apostolic nuncio says the country still looks just as it did the day after the quake.
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The latest vampire thriller,
Eclipse, has sparked a bizarre trend among teen couples who are now biting each other as a sign of affection, a practice that experts say can lead to dangerous infections and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The latest vampire thriller,
Eclipse, has sparked a bizarre trend among teen couples who are now biting each other as a sign of affection, a practice that experts say can lead to dangerous infections the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An adjunct professor of Catholicism at the University of Illinois has been fired after a student accused the instructor of hate speech for saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual acts are immoral. He also lost his job at an on-campus Catholic center.
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