By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A secular humanist organization is sponsoring the first annual International Blasphemy Day on Sept. 30 as a “free speech event” in which participants are encouraged to blaspheme God and mock religion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A day before making an impassioned plea for families at the shrine of the Infant of Prague in Czechoslovakia, the Pope discussed the modern crisis of divorce, saying legal divorce seemed “bent on demolishing” the family.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
President Barack Obama’s declaration of Family Day for 2009 included an historic reference. For the first time in the nation’s history, it recognized same-sex parents.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s longtime confidant, Paul Kirk, has been named as Kennedy’s interim replacement until a special election scheduled for January, 2010.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A San Francisco media group billing itself as “the best in LGBT media” claims that hundreds of public schools in California have signed up to use its educational materials which include a film featuring a boy who “comes out” by wearing his mother’s bikini.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During his visit to the Czech Republic, Pope Benedict XVI visited the church of Our Lady of Victories, home of the famous statue of the Infant of Prague, where he crowned the image and pronounced a new prayer for children and families.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study released by Trinity College found that 15 percent of Americans say that while they believe in some kind of higher power, they do not associate with any particular religious denomination.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Sudanese bishop is pleading for international help after marauding bands of guerrillas crucified seven Christians and desecrated churches and the Blessed Sacrament in a series of raids on villages in Sudan.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During his historic three-day visit to the Czech Republic, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in that country, Pope Benedict XVI carried a message of faith and hope to this largely atheistic nation.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Of the 90 co-sponsors of a bill aimed at overturning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which would open the door to same-sex marriage throughout the nation, 35 are Catholic.
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