By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of massive public education reform programs in the past decade, U.S. students are still only achieving "average" scores in reading and science compared to the rest of the world, and below average scores in math.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the wake of the Baghdad bombing of a cathedral that left dozens dead, news has surfaced from Somalia about a teenage girl who, after being repeatedly tortured by her own parents for embracing Christianity, was found shot to death in a neighboring community.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
If officials decide to overturn the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy banning homosexuals from serving openly in the military, an estimated 264,600 men and women who are currently serving say they will leave sooner than they had planned.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
On the same day that California's gay-marriage ban was back in court, the U.S. bishops, along with a broad coalition of the largest religious communities in the U.S., published an open letter to express their commitment toward the protection of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner called on world leaders this Sunday to institute a global Chinese-style one-child policy in order to ensure the future of the human race.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, is capitalizing on the Pope's recent comments on condoms in a new ad designed to draw attention to the crisis of animal overpopulation.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The opening statement to delegates at the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change which opened in Cancun on November 29 included a invocation to the ancient Mayan goddess known as Ixchel.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than a half million signers of the Manhattan Declaration, a document urging Christians to stand for life, marriage and religious liberty, are protesting a decision by Apple, Inc. to pull the app from iTunes after a small pro-abortion, pro-same-sex marriage activist group accused the document of promoting "bigotry" and "homophobia."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new poll has found that the majority of women are woefully under-informed about the medical dangers of the birth control pill.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Respect for female members of the House is behind a newly proposed project by the Speaker-in-waiting, John Boehner (R-OH) to construct a women's bathroom off the House floor which, until now, has only offered facilities to men.
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