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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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
European police have uncovered a 70,000 member Internet pedophile ring based in the Netherlands which has led to the identification of 670 suspects and the rescue of 230 abused children in 30 countries.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hirago, of the hard hit diocese of Sendai, Japan, said the tragic 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck the area last Friday has had "a strong emotional impact on society," and has left one priest dead of a heart attack.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even though it was widely expected to pass, Maryland's same-sex marriage bill will be shelved for another year after a last minute effort from black churches and the Maryland Catholic Conference influenced a majority of House members to turn against the bill.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Less than two months after the horrifying shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona prompted nationwide calls for civility in public discourse, mobs of angry union workers in Wisconsin have thrown all sense of decency to the wind and are turning to violence in revenge for the passage of a bill that will restrict their collective bargaining rights.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is considered one of the largest and most in-depth federal report on sexual behavior of its kind, has found that a growing number of teens and young adults are choosing to remain chaste.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The release of an undercover video in which National Public Radio's (NPR) top fundraising executive is caught denigrating Christians, Jews, and tea party members, while espousing the Muslim Brotherhood, has prompted outrage and renewed calls for an end of the organization's taxpayer funding. It has also resulted in the resignation of controverial NPR CEO, Vivian Schiller.
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