Cardinal: Demographic Winter Points to “Serious Cultural Catastrophe”

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

The president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, said that societies without children have not only a bleak future, but also experience a “lack of balance between generations” and an “educational poverty.”

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Buried ObamaCare Mandate Befuddles Enforcers

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

A little known mandate buried in the new healthcare reform bill that requires restaurants and vending machine operators to disclose calorie counts on the foods they sell is confusing everyone involved, including the federal agency in charge of enforcing it.

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Mother Teresa Never Celebrated her Birthday

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

While a grateful mankind celebrated the 100th birthday of one of the greatest humanitarians who ever lived, members of the Missionaries of Charity said their foundress, Mother Teresa, preferred to celebrate the day of her baptism instead.

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Witchcraft Linked to Child Abuse in Nigeria

This is a truly shocking story that I posted this morning on our Breaking News site. It’s about how a grave fear of witchcraft in Nigeria has led to an alarming new trend of children being accused of being witches who are then either cast out or murdered by their families.

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Study: Atheist Doctors Twice as Likely to End Lives of Terminally Ill Patients

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

A new study conducted by the London School of Medicine and Dentistry found that doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very religious.

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