By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even though the ranks of the priesthood have been declining in many parts of the world, the number of permanent deacons has been expanding almost 30 times faster than the priesthood since the year 2000, resulting in an estimated 40 percent of U.S. parishes now being run by a deacon rather than an ordained priest.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A top official for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has apologized to the Salvation Army after one of its videographers asked volunteers to change their t-shirts for on-camera interviews because they sported the logo of a faith-based organization.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A woman who was excommunicated last month after being ordained a “priest” has died and the Archdiocese of Chicago will not permit her to receive a Catholic burial.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Members of the Rainbow Sash Movement, a national homosexual activist group, are planning to wear their sashes to Mass throughout the country this weekend and challenge priests and bishops to give them Communion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Australian researcher is bragging that advances in artificial means of reproduction such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) may soon make the idea of having sex in order to produce children obsolete.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The CEO of Apple Computers says his company “has a moral responsibility” to keep pornography off their popular iPhone and new iPad.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A senior correspondent of a major daily political newspaper in Washington DC has retracted and apologized for a story it ran last week that accused the apostolic nuncio of verbally abusing a victim of clerical abuse.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The physician who treated Pope John Paul II throughout his life said the dying pontiff refused all pain medication and, at the end of his life, abandoned himself completely to Mary.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The ordination of two women bishops in Los Angeles this weekend, one of whom is a partnered lesbian, has caused more sorrow and alienation in the traditional Episcopalian community.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
It has recently been discovered that U.S. Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, President Obama’s pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, helped craft President Clinton’s political strategy for sustaining his veto of the partial birth abortion in 1997, an effort that prevented the ban from becoming law until 2003.
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