Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver another State of the Union address, questions are being raised about whether or not the promises he makes tonight will end up like so many of his past pledges - unfulfilled.
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Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington DC yesterday for the annual March for Life, with the cold and a constant freezing drizzle unable to dampen their spirits.
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Bishop Joseph P. McFadden of the diocese of Harrisburg criticized the monopolistic American public school system, saying that “totalitarian governments would love our system” in an interview with
ABC.
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Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS), issued an announcement late Friday afternoon indicating that her department will ignore the concerns of religious employers regarding HHS rules mandating health insurance coverage for sterilizations and contraception, including some that cause abortion, except to allow religious groups a year to comply with the law.
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The mainstream media will probably black out today's March for Life in Washington, DC the way they usually do, but their efforts to shield the public from the pro-life view are futile because the quest to end abortion-in-demand in America is making astonishing progress without their "help."
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David Ellefson, bass player for the heavy metal rock band, Megadeth, has decided he'd rather shout about Christ than belt out tunes celebrating death and has enrolled in Concordia Seminary to prepare to become a Christian pastor.
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While addressing a group of U.S. bishops this week, Pope Benedict XVI noted that Obama administration policies have contributed to a national environment that has become "increasingly hostile to Christianity."
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Christians fed up with the Church in Europe aren't just leaving their congregations, they're taking steps to become officially "de-baptized," and they're doing so in numbers that are beginning to worry Church leaders.
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Negative publicity isn't good for cookie sales, and the recent resignation of a Girl Scout associate who was asked to remove a pro-life t-shirt, coupled with a scathing rebuke of the Scouts' liberal ideology by an internationally known scholar is only adding momentum to calls for the public to take a pass on the do-si-dos this year.
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Outrage is growing over the case of three year-old Amelia Rivera who was denied a liver transplant that would save her life because she suffers from mental retardation.
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