By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A Vatican investigator is expected to arrive in Colwyn, Kansas this Friday to investigate the miraculous recovery of a 20 year-old man who suffered catastrophic head injuries during a pole-vault accident in October. The family prayed to a fellow Kansan, Rev. Emil Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain from Pilsen, Kansas, who died in a Korean prison camp and whose cause for sainthood is currently under investigation.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During a pastoral visit yesterday to the sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo in Pietrelcina, Italy, Pope Benedict XVI entrusted the Year of Priests to Our Lady and St. Pio.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A 29 year old Haitian immigrant has been charged with setting her six year-old daughter on fire while performing a bizarre voodoo ritual meant to drive out evil spirits.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
According to two key bishops at the biannual meeting of U.S. Bishops this week, the University of Notre Dame will receive no sanctions for honoring pro-abortion President Barack Obama at its May 17 commencement ceremony this year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Another development at the U.S. Bishops biannual meeting in San Antonio, Texas this week is the near unanimous approval of a new “Mass in Thanksgiving for the Gift of Human Life."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Meeting in San Antonio, Texas this week for their biannual meeting, U.S. Bishops are planning to launch a series of professionally designed programs to help educate the public on the necessity of maintaining traditional marriage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As the world prepares for today’s opening of the Year of Priests, Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter to the priests of the world, calling on them to live out the words of St. John Vianney, “The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCS
Staff Writer
In the wake of the Notre Dame commencement scandal, Catholic college leaders representing some of the worst violators of the U.S. bishops’ 2004 ban on honoring public opponents of Catholic teachings are lobbying the bishops to withdraw their policy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers to stop using the popular homeopathic cold remedy, Zicam, because of hundreds of reports of people losing their sense of smell after using the product.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The board of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) agreed yesterday to ban its member stations from airing new religious TV programs, but agreed to permit those stations that already carry religious shows to continue doing so.
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