By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Just before opening the first working session of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops in Rome this week, Pope Benedict denounced "terrorist ideologies" that promote violence in the name of God.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Two members of a vampire cult have been arrested by police in Chandler, Arizona after stabbing a friend who refused to allow them to suck his blood.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The first human trial involving embryonic stem cells (ESC) has officially begun with the injection of a partially paralyzed patient with millions of stem cells in an Atlanta hospital.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that children who spend more than two hours per day watching television or playing computer games are at greater risk for psychological problems.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is launching an effort to force religious hospitals to provide abortions by asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to strip them of their federal funding if they refuse to comply.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Father Richard Perozich, a priest of the Diocese of San Diego, has published a hard-hitting letter to Catholics in which he explains what our role must be in the public square if we can ever hope to bring about real change to society.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The French government has appointed a study to group to investigate an alarming increase in incidents of desecration aimed at Catholic churches and cemeteries.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Montana woman armed with a crowbar entered a Loveland, Colorado museum and destroyed a controversial art exhibit that showed Jesus engaged in sex acts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded the top prize to a blasphemous poem that mocks Jesus' words "This is my body" in an October 6 "Stem Cell Awareness Day" poetry contest.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The first official ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in ObamaCare that will force consumers to buy health care coverage came from a Detroit judge yesterday afternoon who determined that Congress does indeed have the power to do so.
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