By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Disrespect for human life has reached a new low in China where pharmaceutical companies are allegedly grinding up the bodies of dead babies and using the remains to create "stamina-enhancing" pills.
St. Gianna Physician's Guild launched an online petition drive today requesting that the Obama Administration and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, immediately withdraw all references to contraception and contraception counseling from the "Guidelines for Women's Preventive Services" under The Affordable Care Act, and to provide a conscience clause to protect the religious freedom and beliefs of Catholics.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During an address to youth in Madrid last week, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput warned that liberal news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek and The New York Times do not "provide trustworthy information about religious faith.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A young Pakistani Catholic woman from Quetta, Pakistan is refusing to renounce Christ even after being forced to convert and marry a Muslim man who regularly drugged her and subjected her to mental and physical torture for two years.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to a new survey, parents are finally waking up to all the mischief their children can become involved in via their cell phones with half of them saying "sexting" is their biggest worry as the new school year approaches.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The recent death threat left on a jihadist website against TV funny man David Letterman is raising the question of whether or not all religions should be off limits to comics, many of whom are well-known for their regular Church bashing.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
From the moment he landed in one of Europe's most secular nations, Pope Benedict XVI took on secularism in Spain, encouraging a massive throng of nearly one million youth from 190 countries to build their lives "on the firm foundation" of the Christian faith.
Not even a month has passed since the furor over the indecent display of a 10 year-old in Vogue Paris and the fashion industry in France is under fire again - this time for a lingerie designer whose website is full of pictures of scantily clad girls as young as four sporting makeup, beehive hairdos and a new line of age-inappropriate underwear.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Reflecting on a recent ruling by the bishops of England to reintroduce the discipline of abstinence from meat on Fridays, New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan thinks American Catholics should consider doing the same in order to restore some of our lost Catholic identity.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Arizona appeals court has lifted an injunction that blocked abortion regulationsfrom taking effect, allowing these new and potentially life-saving rules to become law immediately.
