By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Contrary to what the secular media has been trumpeting all weekend, a Vatican spokesman has clarified that statements made by the Pope in an upcoming book about the use of condoms to avoid transmission of AIDS does not contradict Church teaching, but rather affirms it.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center has found that attitudes toward marriage are changing in America, but two-thirds of Americans remain optimistic about its future.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Officials at Georgetown University have told students that they are willing to consider "gender-blind housing" on campus that would "not take into account gender when assigning housing to students."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The first official act of the new conservative majority in the House was to ask the Lord to come to their assistance as they vowed to "give Him thanks in the great assembly."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI made an urgent appeal yesterday to the leaders of Pakistan to spare the life of a Christian mother of five who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy on a trumped up charge of insulting Mohammed.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
For those consumers who wish to make a statement with their Christmas purchases this year, the American Family Association (AFA) has just released the 2010 "Naughty or Nice" list of stores that are either promoting or censoring Christmas.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Concerned citizens need to be aware that a Senate subcommittee is planning to hold a hearing today on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a treaty that promotes abortion, disparages Mother's Day, and would put all aspects of life under the scrutiny of "gender experts."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict has issued a post-synodal apostolic exhortation entitled,
Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], which is considered to be the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (
Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff JournalistÂ
More than 17 female students at a school in Trinidad fell mysteriously ill last week with symptoms eerily similar to those experienced by possessed persons.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The newly elected vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) says that if the courts strike down Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage in California, the cultural impact on marriage will be "akin to Roe v. Wade."
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