By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new FY2012 budget unveiled by the White House yesterday includes much steeper decreases in funding to abstinence education than to "Safe Sex" programs, confirming that the Administration's priorities remain with the promotion of contraception-based programs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new report issued by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research in New Haven, Connecticut has found that 270 Christians die for the faith every day.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Homosexual activists are now targeting the popular new Catholic Confession app for Apple's iPhone, saying it promotes "anti-gay spiritual abuse."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During an interview with the Italian Catholic press, Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq said the West cannot possibly understand the threat of a "reawakening of Islam" in the Middle East and called the region a "scary volcano" since the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A man who allegedly stabbed women in the back of the neck and then sucked their blood while they were riding subways in Russia has been arrested.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pro abortion groups are crying foul after learning that the GOP's spending cut plans include the elimination of the Title X program, which provides family planning services to low-income Americans.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Church officials have been called in to investigate a possible miracle that took place in the chapel of a Catholic middle school in Jackson, Michigan during Eucharistic adoration two weeks ago.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an age of MTV and sex ed programs that encourage teens to have sex, a new study released on Wednesday has found that an overwhelming majority of young people say they want to remain chaste until marriage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Steven W. Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), expressed outrage today at a clear instance of U.S. tax dollars being used to aid a coercive campaign to sterilize 700,000 Rwandan men in three years.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The cause for the beatification of an Italian youth who created an international exhibit on Eucharistic miracles is being introduced in the Archdiocese of Milan.
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