By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Speaking after Sunday's Angelus at Castle Gandolfo on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his sorrow for the tragic deaths of 19 people at the "Love Parade" music festival in Germany on July 24.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study by Princeton University has found evidence of a deep and pervasive bias against lower-class white and conservative youth at America's elite colleges and Ivy League schools.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Proponents of traditional marriage are vowing to continue the fight for the right to vote on same-sex marriage after a sharply divided D.C. Court of Appeals decided that because the traditional concept of marriage between one man and one woman is discriminatory, citizens should not have an opportunity to vote on the matter.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journal
A school board meeting in Helena, Montana was filled to capacity Tuesday night with parents concerned about a new sex education program aimed at children as young as kindergarten.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The latest vampire thriller,
Eclipse, has sparked a bizarre trend among teen couples who are now biting each other as a sign of affection, a practice that experts say can lead to dangerous infections the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An adjunct professor of Catholicism at the University of Illinois has been fired after a student accused the instructor of hate speech for saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual acts are immoral. He also lost his job at an on-campus Catholic center.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an effort to reduce the amount of carbon emission resulting from conventional forms of cremation, undertakers have developed a process that dissolves bodies in a caustic solution, part of which could end up in the local sewer.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal district court judge in Boston ruled yesterday that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman is unconstitutional because it violates the rights of same-sex couples and interferes with state's rights to set their own marriage law.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The governor of Hawaii has vetoed a civil unions bill that would have granted same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples because she believes the issue is of "such societal importance that it deserves to be decided directly by all the people of Hawaii."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 24 year-old graduate student is suing Augusta State University in Georgia after being told she will be dismissed from the program unless she "alters" her religious beliefs concerning homosexuality and transgendered persons.
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