By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
What could be viewed as a harbinger of things to come when the government takes over the U.S. health care system, a new report has found that elderly patients in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) received such appallingly negligent care one family member said it amounts to “euthanasia.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Canadian hospital is now threatening and harassing the parents of a 13 month-old boy who is suffering from a terminal neurological condition, denying them private visits and trying to force their consent to having the child’s life support removed.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an op-ed appearing in the Washington Post, Frances Kissling, a well-known abortion rights activist and former head of the now defunct Catholics for a Free Choice, said that if the pro-choice movement in America wants to survive, it has to stop pretending it’s 1970 by denying that a fetus is a human being and that abortion is more than just a “medical matter” between a woman and her doctor.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a case in which a Christian student is challenging her dismissal from a counseling program because she refused to compromise her beliefs about homosexuality, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief saying that compelling someone to act against their beliefs doesn’t violate their freedoms of religion or speech because people should be expected to put aside their beliefs in their professional lives.
Feast of St. Polycarp,
Bishop and Martyr
(D. 155)
“Leave me as I am. The one who gives me strength to endure the fire will also give me strength to stay quite still on the pyre, even without the precaution of your nails.”
St. Polycarp at his Martyrdom
For Reflection:
How is God giving me strength today?
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has ordered the distributors of PowerBalance wrist bands to publish a retraction of their ads which make bogus claims that the bands have a therapeutic effect upon the body such as to improve strength, balance, flexibility, because there is no scientific evidence to support these claims.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The New York obstetrician and abortionist who converted to Catholicism and the pro-life cause after watching a sonogram of an abortion, died in his home yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An East London school teacher was left with a slashed face and a fractured skull when four Muslim men attacked him for teaching a world religions course to Muslim girls.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to the dispute between union workers and state lawmakers in Wisconsin, the state’s Catholic bishops are calling on officials to carefully evaluate the situation and to remember their “moral obligation” to protect workers’ rights.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Thousands of people around the world are praying for a one year-old Canadian boy on life support who is caught between a hospital that wants to withdraw treatment and parents who want to bring him home to die.
