By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a stellar example of pastoral leadership, one of the nation’s youngest bishops, 49 year-old Marquette Bishop Alexander K. Sample, has banned 79 year-old Bishop Thomas Gumbleton from speaking in his diocese because of his positions in support of homosexuality, contraception and women’s ordination.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Vatican’s United Nations (UN) representative, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, is calling on the global body to stop promoting population control programs that were designed to counter a “population explosion” that never happened, and have led to serious demographic decline in many nations.
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Hello Everyone!
I am in Birmingham, Alabama this week for the annual Global Catholic Radio Conference. Today we went to "Radio Mountain," the site of the shortwave radio network that provides Catholic programming to the world and to the US via 200+ AM/FM radio stations and also through Sirius Satellite (Station 160).
As a program provider since its inception, I was once again awestruck by the opportunities available by means of electronic communications. Zeal filled my heart and desire filled my soul. I am hoping to offer you some pictures from our visit today and to keep you informed of the event in general.
Off to the Shrine in Hanceville tomorrow for a retreat. Wing a prayer for me and for all of those attending and presenting.
Blessings in Jesus and Mary,
Johnnette
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Now that the Senate Finance Committee version of health care reform has passed, the real work of trying to craft a bill will begin.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A school district in Scranton, Pennsylvania has been sued by the parents of a middle school student who was ordered to remove a t-shirt bearing the message, “Abortion is not Healthcare” on the day of President Obama’s address to students.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says U.S. Catholic bishops are wrong in their belief that abortion funded is included in health care reform, once again making the misleading claim that an existing amendment prohibiting federal funding of abortion, known as the Hyde amendment, would prevent this from happening.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The University of Notre Dame is under fire once again for giving financial assistance to five students to participate in the Nov. 11 National Equality March in Washington, DC, which was organized in part to advocate homosexual “marriage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A 17 year-old Utah teen who paid a man to beat her in the hopes of terminating her pregnancy has been released following a judge’s ruling that her actions were legal according to the state’s abortion laws.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Katie Holmes, wife of actor Tom Cruise and the daughter of devout Catholics, is said to have convinced her husband to raise their daughter Suri as a Catholic rather than in their adopted Scientology.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Some of the nation's largest multiracial, multiethnic, and multigenerational faith-based and policy organizations, representing more than 30 million people, went on record to voice opposition to any healthcare bill that funds abortion, violates conscience, rations care, or limits freedom.
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