By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican replied by personal letter to
The New York Times about a misleading article it featured on the front page last week that presented then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as being lax in the punishment imposed on a Milwaukee priest accused of abusing deaf children decades ago.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The decision by a Texas college to stage a play portraying Jesus as the “King of Queens” a week before Easter has sparked a firestorm of outrage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a column written just after the House passed “the terribly deficient Senate Bill”, Wisconsin Bishop Robert C. Morlino blasts the Catholic Health Association, NETWORK, Nancy Pelosi and other “Catholic” Democrats who not only defied the Church’s position on health care but also confused the public about who speaks for the Church in important civic debates.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Journalists from the mainstream media have launched an all-out effort to discredit Pope Benedict XVI by trying to tie him to a number of sex abuse scandals.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A wave of violence has broken out across the country as citizens vent their anger against lawmakers who participated in the passage of the enormously unpopular health care reform bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Controversy is raging over the role a Seattle high school played in helping a 15 year-old student obtain an abortion during school hours, telling her that the procedure would be free if she concealed it from her parents.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
With only a handful of people on hand and no press allowed, President Barack Obama signed an executive order yesterday that supposedly promises not to use taxpayer funds for abortion under the new health care law. The secrecy of the signing ceremony sparked a rash of criticism that the White House was unable to defend.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
President Obama proudly declared that the new health care law "is going to be affecting every American family" – except his own as well as the familis of House and Senate leadership who wrote the bill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a bizarre new tactic to avoid airport screening devices, Al Qaeda terrorist groups are having explosive devices implanted in the breasts of female homicide bombers during plastic surgery.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) expressed apprehension about whether or not the President’s executive order would adequately prevent federal funding of abortion and said he was concerned about the divisions in the Church that became apparent during the health care debate.
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