By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI used the occasion of "The World Day of Missionary Childhood," which is celebrated on the Feast of the Epiphany, to speak out against the deplorable surge of child kidnappings in the Democratic Republic of Congo that have seen scores of children stolen from their homes and forced to become child soldiers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate have introduced the Broadcaster’s Freedom Act, a bill intended to strip the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its authority to reinstitute the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” by codifying the status quo and protecting free speech.
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By Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
Healthcare workers at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics (UWHC) have alerted attorneys to secret plans by the organization to open a late-term abortion facility in which they would be forced to participate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A baby born in England at 23 weeks has survived and finally come home from the hospital. Her mother is now calling British abortion laws “outdated” because they are based on the notion that children born at less than 24 weeks cannot survive outside the womb.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As part of a government drive to cut teenage pregnancy, sexual health clinics in secondary schools in England are now dispensing the “morning after pill” without parental permission to girls as young as 11 years old.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
In 2008, at least twenty Catholics were killed while in the service of Christ. The list includes Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mossul for Chaldeans (Iraq), 16 priests, 1 religious and 2 lay volunteers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
If President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to push the pro-abortion agenda to new heights in the coming years, he will be doing so against the will of the American people. Yet another survey, this one commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), found that only nine percent of the population believes abortion should be legal for any reason at any time during pregnancy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A New Age organization promoting a new Messiah named Maitreya, who is supposedly responsible for miraculous events such as weeping statues and Our Lady’s appearances in Medjugorge, has published a press release in major newspapers around the world claiming that a great miracle is about to appear in the sky which will be visible to everyone and will precipitate the emergence of the new Messiah.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
According to the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the birth control pill is polluting the environment and is partly responsible for male infertility.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During Sunday Angelus prayers at the Vatican yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to “act immediately to end the current tragic situation" in the Gaza Strip.
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