By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Vatican has accepted the appointment of a Catholic in good standing with the Church as the French ambassador to the Vatican after refusing to accept a militant homosexual and a divorcee who remarried outside the Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The city of Green Bay, Wisconsin successfully fought off a lawsuit brought by a radical atheist organization over a Nativity scene that it traditionally displays at City Hall every year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Although rarely reported by the mainstream media, abortion-related violence is a common occurrence in America. In just the past week, a victim of infanticide was finally given a burial date, a woman who refused an abortion was beaten by her ex-boyfriend and two Georgia women were sentenced after forcing a girl to drink turpentine in order to induce an abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Even after nearly 30,000 people petitioned YouTube to remove 43 videos depicting various acts of desecration of the Blessed Sacrament, the site refuses to pull the videos.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In conjunction with the Oct. 5 opening of the Bishops Synod on the Bible, Pope Benedict XVI has launched a marathon non-stop reading of the Bible, from Genesis to Apocalypse, which is being broadcast live on Italian state television.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A national pro-life student organization has released a video on YouTube exposing two Planned Parenthood clinics in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina in the act of covering up statutory rape of young girls.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The American Family Association (AFA) is rallying an angry public to put pressure on lawmakers to hold open congressional hearings to investigate the financial meltdown on Wall Street that will cost American taxpayers $700 billion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After a controversy concerning the exhumation of the body of John Henry Cardinal Newman in preparation for his beatification, officials unearthed the Cardinal’s tomb and found no body inside and only a few artifacts in the coffin.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI opened the Synod of Bishops on the Bible yesterday with a warning that nations once rich in faith are losing their identity under the influence of "a certain modern culture.”
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By Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
A high school in upstate New York has agreed to delay the implementation of yoga classes after a group of parents and religious leaders complained the program indoctrinates children in Hindu rites and is a violation of the separation of church and state.
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