By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Family Research Council and Focus on the Family have released a Family Action Vote Scorecard on the 110the Congress which reveals the dramatic shift away from pro-family values that has resulted since the Democratic party took control of Congress in 2006.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The brutal gang rape of a 28 year-old Catholic nun in India, a crime that occurred within sight of a dozen police officers, is just the latest atrocity in the on-going violence against Christians in India. The situation is so bad the U.S. Congress has issued a resolution condemning the violence and demanding action from the government.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the newly appointed prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, told an Italian Catholic daily newspaper that the Democratic Party in the United States “risks transforming itself definitively into a ‘party of death’.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Members of the audience reportedly walked out when the Coadjutor Bishop of Sacramento, Jaime Soto, boldly told attendees at the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries (NACDLGM) in his keynote address that homosexual relations are sinful. When people lined up afterward to complain about his talk, the Bishop quietly listened to each and every person without wavering from Church teaching.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A major media watchdog organization is questioning why the many child sex abuse scandals that have been raging in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have been left virtually unreported by the mainstream media.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Fr. Michael Sopocko, the spiritual director of the woman who brought the message of Divine Mercy to the world, St. Faustina Kowalska, was beatified on Sept. 28 at a ceremony in Bialystok, Poland by Archbishop Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Speaking to participants in an international meeting of Retrouvaille, an organization that helps married couples in crisis, Pope Benedict XVI said marital crises can be overcome and be a “passage to a new phase” of their life together.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
During the last month, dozens of videos showing desecration of the Eucharist have been posted on YouTube, sparking public outrage and a national campaign to have the videos removed.
In one video, an individual known as FSMDude goes into a Catholic Church and receives Communion, then goes outside and takes the host out of his mouth. The next scene is in his home where he holds up the Host in preparation to desecrate it.
In all, FSMdude has posted more than 40 videos on YouTube showing Hosts being stepped on, burned, stapled, smoked and nailed to a stick. Videos show him feeding the Eucharist to ducks and a groundhog and flushing it down the toilet.
On his website, he says “From now on, one Eucharist desecration a day, and each day a different method. If they want blasphem[y], we'll give 'em blasphem[y].”
America Needs Fatima, an organization dedicated to spreading the message of Fatima in the United States, has launched a national petition campaign to have the videos removed from the site.
Their petition asks YouTube staff to “remove all of his videos and any others that target, demean, and aggressively attack Catholics and the Catholic faith.”
The videos are an obvious violation of YouTube community guidelines which state: “We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).”
YouTube users are able to “flag” a video they find offensive and the site promises that their administrators, who review videos 24/7, will “immediately remove any content that violates the Terms of Use.”
However, some of these videos have been on the site for a month.
To demand that these offensives videos be removed immediately, send a petition to YouTube at
http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/yt/?sc=e0005.eml2.link3
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An article appearing in the Sept. 24 edition of the Vatican newspaper,
L’Ossservatore Romano, blamed the current U.S. financial meltdown on greed and a lack of regulation and said the proposed bailout by the U.S. government might ward off a catastrophe but it won’t fix the underlying cause of the problem.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A parish priest in Rome was seriously injured after being stabbed by a man who admitted to having watched the movie, The Da Vinci Code, the night before.
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