By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Shenouda III, is expected to conduct an immediate investigation into alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a Cairo slum that have been drawing thousands nightly.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A former business professor from the Franciscan University of Steubenville has decided to help legislators and the general public better understand what is contained in the Senate’s health care reform legislation by making the entire document available as a searchable on-line document.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Top officials at the White House are pressuring pro-life Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) with threats to close a military base in his state for refusing to go along with pro-abortion healthcare legislation, and have charged Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) with the task of drafting up a compromise that will get Nelson on board.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Government officials in the German state of Salzkotten have begun to sentence fathers to one week in jail for opting their children out of graphic sex ed classes, prompting an international civil rights group to file a civil lawsuit on behalf of parents.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A teacher in Taunton, Massachusetts Elementary School sent a second-grader home with a recommendation that he undergo psychological evaluation after drawing a stick figure of Jesus on the cross.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the 43rd World Day of Peace, to be celebrated January 1, 2010, encourages lifestyles marked by “sobriety and solidarity,” warns about eco-fanaticism opening up a “new pantheism tinged with neopaganism” and calls for an acknowledgement of the “indivisible relationship between God, human beings and the whole of creation.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says there are more raunchy Christmas plays this year than ever before.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Catholic Church is being blamed for a decision by New Line Cinema to cancel plans to film the final two installments in the controversial
His Dark Materials trilogy in spite of the success of the first film,
The Golden Compass.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Illinois judge has issued a restraining order barring a father from taking his daughter to any church other than a Jewish synagogue.
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