By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In the first comprehensive analysis since 1974 of demographic characteristics of women who have abortions, researchers found that women who already have children account for more than half all abortions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Groundbreaking legislation marking the most sweeping Congressional reform of the U.S. foster care system in more than a decade has passed the House of Representatives and is on its way to the Senate where it is expected to pass.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Powerful new television ads encouraging Catholics to return to the Church are being run in major cities across the United States with astonishing results.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as Senator John McCain’s vice presidential running mate is being cited as the reason for a dramatic increase in the Senator’s popularity among Catholic voters who attend church weekly.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Seventeen centuries after his death, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe of Naples has confirmed that the blood of martyred St. Januarius once again turned to liquid on his Sept. 19 feast day.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The world’s first license to created cloned human embryos for research has been granted by the Australian government to an in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Sydney.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Students across the nation will be gathering around the flagpoles of their schools before classes begin on Sept. 24 to pray for their schools, teachers and the country in order to exercise their First Amendment right to pray at their schools.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Family Research Council (FRC) released a study yesterday demonstrating that state parental involvement laws are very effective in reducing abortions among minors.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
New Age “angels” are becoming the hottest new trend in Ireland with so-called “angel teachers” instructing the public on how to “spread the light of angels, ascension and the sacred mysteries of the Universe.” Publishers are already fighting over the rights to publish one best-selling book on the subject in the U.S.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
New Age “angels” are becoming the hottest new trend in Ireland with so-called “angel teachers” instructing the public on how to “spread the light of angels, ascension and the sacred mysteries of the Universe.” Publishers are already fighting over the rights to publish one best-selling book on the subject in the U.S.
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