By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A professional pollster is warning voters to remember the exit polling fiasco of the 2004 election which grossly over-stated Sen. John Kerry’s lead, saying the same misinformation will probably surface again this year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Polls had barely opened this morning before voting irregularities began to appear across the nation, from wet ballot forms in Virginia to voter survey forms scattered across a Florida highway to Republican poll watchers being booted from inner city polling stations in Philadelphia.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Catholic voters in the crucial battleground state of Missouri heard the Church’s stance on voting for pro-abortion candidates in unequivocal terms when a Kansas City bishop took to the airwaves to warn his flock.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The California Catholic Conference is condemning a blatantly bigoted television commercial that will air today by opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The commercial depicts supposed missionaries invading a gay couples home and ripping up their marriage license.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
New research has uncovered a dramatic jump in the number of children who are taking medication for chronic diseases, particularly those associated with obesity.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The nation’s coal industry is reacting with shock to a newly released audio tape of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) telling a reporter his plan for putting severe financial penalties on coal-fired power plants that could essentially bankrupt them.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A renowned neuroscientist and Catholic priest told a bioethics news conference in New York that there is widespread ignorance about the moral implications of in vitro fertilization (IVF), even among Catholics.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Newly published Vatican regulations will require candidates for the priesthood to undergo psychological tests in order to screen out men with strong homosexual tendencies and those who are unable to control their heterosexual urges.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A first ever class action lawsuit has been filed by a Canadian woman who was conceived by artificial insemination from an anonymous donor with the hopes of allowing children of these manufactured unions to have access to information about the donor parent.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A prominent bioethics lawyer says she believes Sen. Barack Obama’s plan to “spread the wealth” will ultimately mean taxpayer funding of elective Medicaid abortions as well as clinics such as Planned Parenthood.
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