By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Polish arm of the Center of Bio-Ethical Reform in Poland may soon launch a billboard compaign to inform the public that abortion for Polish women was introduced by Adolf Hitler in 1943.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
To mark the day when the remains of St. Anthony of Padua went on display for one week at the Basilica in Padua, a Vatican theologian warned about allowing the veneration of relics to devolve into the realm of superstition.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Two more women were ordained "priests" in Sarasota, Florida last week, which has resulted in the automatic excommunication of the women and anyone attending the ceremony.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Concerns are rising on Capitol Hill that the upcoming televised health care summit proposed by President Obama is more of a publicity stunt rather than a sincere effort to a forge real bipartisan health care plan.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The girlfriend of Costa Rican presidential candidate Otto Guevara caused outrage among Catholics in that country after a video caught her breaking off a piece of the Eucharist and putting it in her boyfriend’s pocket.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The bishops of North Carolina are protesting a draft of a new textbook on Civics and Economics in which opposition to Roe v. Wade is presented as wrong.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and an eight-term Congressman, has decided not to seek re-election this year, making this the first time in nearly a half century that a Kennedy will not be serving in Congress.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Lawyers from the Department of Justice will appear in court today to argue in favor of warrantless tracking of cellphone, saying that Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the cellphone’s whereabouts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
State health officials in Alabama have put a Planned Parenthood clinic on probation after an undercover probe revealed clinic employees violating state laws requiring them to report potential cases of sexual abuse of minors.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The religious attitudes of young Catholics, holds both promise and challenges for the Catholic Church according to the results of a new Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll.
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