By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Catholics around the world will be receiving their ashes tomorrow to mark the start of the Lenten season, and a UK bishop is asking all to refrain from rubbing off their ashes so that they can "take the sign of the cross" to all those they will meet during the course of the day.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A growing trend in U.S. and European public schools to mandate graphic sex ed programs that promote promiscuity and "alternative" lifestyles has reached historic proportions in Germany where teh 10th Christian parent has just been tossed in jail for refusing to allow her children to attend the classes. Attorneys on the case are warning that this trend may soon reach American shores.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Some of the country's top pro life organizations are rallying to the aid of baby Joseph Maraachli in an attempt to get him into a hospital in the United States where he can escape attempts by a Canadian hospital to remove his ventilator and let him die.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced on Friday that the U.S. House will appoint attorneys to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) after President Barack Obama decided it was unconstitutional and instructed the Justice Department to stop defending it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new national poll has found that public support for same-sex marriage is rising with those in favor of the unions on the verge of eclipsing those who oppose it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pressure and outrage from alumni and other supporters has forced administratos at Northwestern University to reverse themselves and condemn a live demonstration of sex that occurred in a "human sexuality" class on Feb. 21 on their Evanston, Illinois campus.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Last Saturday's much touted "Walk for Choice" rallies, which were designed to take place in various cities throughout the country to show support for Planned Parenthood in the face of national efforts to defund it, turned out to be poorly attended.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While reporting on an Ohio bill that would forbid abortions after a baby's heart has begun to beat, MSNBC guest host Cenk Uygur said if a fetus was able to speak, it would oppose restrictions on a woman's right to choose.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A representative of the National Education Association (NEA) has asked the UN to do more to combat "homophobia and transphobia" in schools by mandating "inclusive" sex education in U.S. schools that do not teach abstinence or allow students to opt-out.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Florida judge who ruled that the individual mandate in ObamaCare renders the law invalid has given the Obama Administration seven days to appeal his ruling or states can consider the law invalid.
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