By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The economy, an entitlement mentality and loss of respect for human life are being blamed for a drop in the U.S. birth rate to 2.01, which is less than the replacement rate of 2.1.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During testimony on behalf of the U.S. bishops before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick addressed the "growing threats to religious liberty" Catholics are currently facing in America as a result of the spread of radical secularism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A pro-family group in Florida is warning families who plan to visit the Magic Kingdom this summer to avoid going there on the weekend of June 4, which is when approximately 15,000 people will converge on the site to celebrate homosexuality.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Obama Administration has begun to write the policies that will enforce an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military - known as the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy - many of which will either stifle the free expression of religion in the armed forces or force Christian chaplains out of service altogether.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Christopher Hitchens, one of the world's most famous atheists, has turned to the well-known evangelical American scientist, Dr. Francis Collins, to treat his cancer.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Citizens in Munson Township, Ohio are fighting another case of political correctness run amok after township trustees decided to abolish all references to Easter for this year's Easter Egg Roll and are now calling it "The Spring Egg Hunt."
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the same week that the California Senate Education Committee advanced a law that will require the state's public schools to rewrite their social science curriculum to promote homosexuality, the chaplain at a private Catholic high school in Indianapolis is being accused of spreading "anti-gay propaganda" for explaining Church teaching on homosexuality in class.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Months of prayer vigils, education initiatives and organized rallies by pro-life forces in the Philippines paid off when a controversial "reproductive health" (RH) bill failed to pass by the end of the legislative session in the House of Representatives.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Researchers at the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued a new set of guidelines in which they refer to "Facebook depression" which may affect troubled teens who become too obsessive about the site.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of widespread headlines claiming that a majority of Catholics (53%) support same-sex marriage, the polls, which were funded by a homosexual activist group, contained a variety of problems from too small of a sampling size to outright misrepresentation of the results.
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