By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has announced that his dicastery is planning to publish a new document on the after-effects of abortion which is expected to be completed next year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A complaint has been filed against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan asking that she be disbarred for her role in falsifying an expert medical report regarding partial birth abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
If passed, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” recently introduced by pro-life Congressmen in the U.S. House, will institute a permanent, government-wide statutory ban on all taxpayer-funded abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world’s first human clinical trial of a therapy involving embryonic stem cells, a move that has been condemned by the Vatican as "unacceptable."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A religion instructor who was fired by the University of Illinois for teaching the Roman Catholic stance on homosexuality has been reinstated and will return to his job this fall.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An environmental group is trying to disrupt Holy Land tours to the river Jordan by saying the waters are too polluted to be used for baptisms.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A member of the U.S. House has already collected 162 of the 218 co-sponsors needed to advance a discharge petition that will repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A CBS reporter has discovered that one of the three people who were posed behind President Barack Obama at last week's Rose Garden speech about the need to extend unemployment compensation lost her job last year shortly after being convicted of prescription drug fraud.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
First Lady Michelle Obama has sent out an e-mail message to thousands of supporters asking them to sign an electronic birthday card to be sent to her husband on his 49th birthday. When viewers click on the "sign the card" icon, it directs them to a page asking for donations to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Most parents will be appalled to learn that the nation's largest teachers union, long known for its radical politics, has added Oct. 1 to its list of "Diversity Events" as a day to celebrate the deadly founding of communism in China by Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
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