By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Catholic League president Bill Donohue is urging the Bush Administration to move quickly to put in place new regulations that protect the conscious rights of health care workers before the radical pro-abortion policies of president-elect Obama administration and Congress make it impossible for Catholic health care facilities to remain open.
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By Susan Brinkmann,OCDS
Staff Writer
The president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity is warning Christians that the time has come to assert themselves in the secular world or risk allowing the creation of a new world order where Christianity is no longer present.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President-elect Barack Obama has named former Senator Tom Daschle, a pro-abortion lapsed Catholic, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, a position that oversees policies including those on abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Last week the highest court of appeals in Italy ruled that the family of a woman who was left in a diminished state of consciousness after a car accident in 1992 can remove her food and hydration tube, thus ending her life. However, the nuns who run the hospice where the woman lives have refused to carry out the order.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Broadcast television is trumpeting the story of a “pregnant man,” who is actually a woman who underwent transgender surgery, depicting this family is normal and using the story to question established definitions of man, woman and family.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Lawsuits demanding proof of President-elect Barack Obama’s citizenship status are proliferating throughout the nation with legal action now pending in at least 15 states.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Countries around the world are expressing outrage over the brutal treatment of a pregnant woman by Chinese authorities who were trying to force her to have an abortion. At the same time, President-elect Barack Obama is considering the reversal of an Executive Order that will allow money to once again flow to organizations that support these and other draconian “family planning” programs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While U.S. Bishops meeting in Baltimore were concentrating their efforts on how to oppose the anticipated pro-abortion policies of an Obama administration, two Catholic Democrats published an editorial in a Baltimore paper calling on the bishops to focus on issues other than abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The CDC has released a new study showing that infants conceived with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) are two to four times more likely to have certain types of birth defects than children who were conceived naturally.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A groundbreaking new study has found that most students on Catholic campuses reject key Catholic moral values and tenets of the faith, and significant numbers engage in pre-marital sexuality activity and the viewing of pornography.
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