by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 23, 2008) During a homily broadcast live from Rome, Pope Benedict XVI told participants at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress that he hoped one outcome of the Congress would be to encourage a greater study of Church teaching on the Eucharist. “Study in groups or individually,” he said, “so that you can live this mystery more intensely.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 20, 2008) Parents using in vitro fertilization methods to conceive children in New Zealand may soon be given the right to choose the sex of their babies.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 20, 2008) Even though Catholic radio broadcasters often feel as if their message is lost amidst the competition of more powerful media, Pope Benedict XVI called these networks a “small but real echo” that helps the world open to the civilization of love.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 20, 2008) Nine homosexual activist groups have made a copy of their battle plan for achieving same-sex marriage in America available to the public. Experts say it’s a “boil the frog in the water” plan meant to gradually desensitizes Americans to the idea so that one day they “simply wake up and same-sex ‘marriage’ has become commonplace.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 20, 2008) Glamorizing teen pregnancy in hit movies such as Juno and Knocked Up, broken families and directionless youth are being blamed for a “pregnancy pact” made by 17 girls who deliberately became pregnant at a high school in a Gloucester, Massachusetts. At least one baby is known to have been fathered by a 24 year old homeless man.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 19, 2008) An Ontario woman was shocked when school officials told her they had evidence her autistic daughter was being sexually abused. But her shock turned to outrage when they said their evidence was based on information given to a teacher’s aide by a local psychic.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 19, 2008) A new study has found that making a virginity pledge may help some young people postpone the start of sexual activity.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 17, 2008) Two openly homosexual members of the U.S. House of Representatives have recruited 50 of their colleagues to join them in forming a pro-homosexual/trans-sexual caucus in Congress to promote the homosexual agenda.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 17, 2008) Pope Benedict XVI would like every Catholic parish in the world to regularly celebrate a Latin-rite Mass and has instructed the Vatican to write to all seminaries to request that all candidates be trained to celebrate the Mass according to the Latin Tridentine Rite.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 17, 2008) The young priest from Kansas was only 35 years old when he lay dying in a Communist prison camp in North Korea. Malnourished, his lungs clouded with pneumonia, as the enemy prepared to carry him away to the “death house,” he was heard whispering, “Father forgive them, they know not what they do.”
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