By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An alternative to the contentious health care reforms currently circulating on the Hill is being deliberately held up in Committee by House leadership. This alternative will allow individuals to choose their health insurance, provide insurance for the poor and high-risk individuals (those with pre-existing conditions), allow insurance to be sold across state lines and set limits on the kind of medical liability suits that have been driving up health care costs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In a letter written to Pope Benedict XVI only months before his death and hand-delivered by President Barack Obama during his July 2009 audience at the Vatican, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy acknowledges his human failures but offers no apology for his career-long support for abortion rights.
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After a four year investigation, an Australian coroner
ruled that participation in an intense four-day self-help program designed to take people on a "journey to the core of the human spirit" led to the suicide of a 34 year-old woman.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Distrubing details have emerged about the parenets of Rifqa Bary, the Ohio girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled in fear of being murdered in an “honor killing.”
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Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While reaction to the Aug. 25 death of Sen. Edward Kennedy is ranging from hero-worship to condemnation, it is also proving to be a divisive event in the lives of Americans.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A judge in a New Hampshire court has determined that a 10 year-old homeschooled girl has become too religious and has ordered her mother to enroll the child in a public school.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Scientists in Oregon have produced the first creature with genetic material from three parents, a technique they hope to use one day to prevent children from inheriting servere genetic diseases from their parents.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
ABC is coming under fire once again for refusing to air ads that oppose government run health care.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut on Tuesday after the diocese sought to keep sealed thousands of legal documents pertaining to six priests accused of sexual abuse.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A 50 year-old Italian woman afflicted with a fatal nerve disease claims that she has been able to ditch her wheelchair and walk ever since bathing in the healing waters at Lourdes earlier this month.
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