By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Adding to its impressive list of 140,000 applications - or “apps” - Apple’s popular iPhone now has apps for the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross, with even more devotionals in the works.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Washington State Department of Health is reporting that 36 people used lethal prescriptions to kill themselves in the first year of the state’s new Death with Dignity Act.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations (UN) said on Monday that some UN programs seeking to advance gender equality are becoming too ideologically driven and have become a hindrance to woman’s advancement.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After calling the city of Cincinnati’s Creation Museum “an armory of righteous revisionism,” a restaurant reviewer at
Vanity Fair magazine took aim at Fr. John Corapi, referring to him as “Fr. Crappy” and calling the people who booked his upcoming conference “Neanderthals lacking technology.”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The decision of a Boulder, Colorado pastor not to allow the child of a lesbian couple to enroll in the parish school is sparking local protests and national controversy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The heavy-handed push to pass health care reform through a reluctant House is causing a rash of problems from resignations to mini “insurrections.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A bloody rampage by Muslim gangs on a Christian village in Nigeria this weekend left more than 500 Christians dead.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An explosive new report by
The New York Times documents two more defectors from the Church of Scientology who say they were routinely abused by the cult and its leaders.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Unconfirmed reports surfacing in the Italian media this weekend say that Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Camillo Ruini to head an official inquiry into the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The U.S. Bishops have signaled that if abortion funding is satisfactorily removed from health care reform, they will back Democratic leadership in support of passing the bill, even if that means using the controversial reconciliation process to do so.
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