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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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A letter urging Congress to do more to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon has been sent by a new coalition representing millions of Roman Catholic, evangelical and other Christian denominations.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Serious concerns are being raised about Kevin Jennings, a homosexual activist appointed by President Obama to be the nation’s “Safe Schools Czar,” after memoirs surfaced in which Jennings wrote about his deep-seated hatred of God and religious believers and how he once bid God farewell with the words, “Screw you, buddy.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In a televised address to participants in the UN summit on climate change, which was held in New York City on Sept. 22, Pope Benedict XVI said that because the natural environment is given by God to everyone, “our use of it entails a personal responsibility towards humanity as a whole, particularly towards the poor and towards future generations.”
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