By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A ruling by the Supreme Court allowing state schools to deny funding to religious groups that require their officers and voting members to agree with their religious beliefs is causing consternation among Christian and other conservative groups.
Read the rest
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a unanimous decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that countries are not obliged to allow same-sex marriage.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Catholic church in New York City is listed as a participant in this weekend’s Gay Pride March even though Archbishop Timothy Dolan explicitly asked the parish not to do so.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to a recent poll, 41 percent of Americans believe Jesus will return by the year 2050, 68 percent of younger Americans believe we will experience another world war during that time and 31 percent believe the earth will be struck by an asteroid.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Parents of students at an Iowa high school are expressing outrage over a graphic sex ed program produced by Planned Parenthood that was shown to their children.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone wondering why Comedy Central seems to be so anti-Christian need only listen to a strange interview on National Public Radio (NPR) with one of the show’s correspondents who who reveals it was like to be raised by a Wiccan and atheist while attending a “progressive” Catholic school and calls mocking the Church “pure joy.”
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Culture and Media Institute (CMI) is warning parents who think the Nickelodeon website is kid-friendly to think again because its homepage links to a sister site that features a variety of racy, sex-focused video games.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Muslim rights groups in Cordoba, Spain are pressuring the local bishop for a “joint use” agreement that will entitle them to share usage of the Cordoba Cathedral in order to alleviate the need among the growing Muslim immigrant population in that country for worship space.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston is standing behind the pastor of a Catholic elementary school in his diocese who made a controversial decision not to accept the child of a same-sex couple.
Read the rest
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Members of the Rainbow Sash Movement, a national homosexual activist group, are planning to wear their sashes to Mass throughout the country this weekend and challenge priests and bishops to give them Communion.
Read the rest
