By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Doctors are baffled by the birth of a blonde-haired, white-skinned baby girl to a British couple from Nigeria who conceived naturally and have no white ancestors on either side.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 43 year-old British man who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a motorcycle accident last year was only inches from death when he managed to communicate to doctors that he very much wanted to live.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A well-researched documentary exposing the abortifacient properties of the birth control pill is now available online.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
With a Senate vote that may confirm U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court only days away, her controversial involvement in the partial birth abortion debate and other political activism has made her the most opposed nominee in recent history.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A relic of the true cross that has been on display in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross for more than 200 years has been stolen.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Diocese of Peoria is planning to meet with officials from the University of Illinois to discuss the case of a professor of Catholicism who was recently fired after an anonymous student complained that his teaching of the Church's position on homosexuality amounted to "hate speech."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) infuriated pro-abortion groups when it took steps last week to implement a ban on funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools under the new health care law after a national pro-life group exposed a loophole in the law.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Proponents of traditional marriage are vowing to continue the fight for the right to vote on same-sex marriage after a sharply divided D.C. Court of Appeals decided that because the traditional concept of marriage between one man and one woman is discriminatory, citizens should not have an opportunity to vote on the matter.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Engineers are cautiously optimistic over the apparent success of a new containment cap that has stopped the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf for nearly three months. Critical tests of the cap are now underway.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Feminists are crying foul over new Vatican directives concerning the manner in which “grave crimes” in the life of the church are addressed because they believe the document puts participation in female ordination in the same category as the sexual abuse of minors.
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