March 10, 2010
Breaking News, Pro Life
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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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March 10, 2010
Breaking News, Cultural
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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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March 10, 2010
Breaking News
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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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March 9, 2010
Breaking News, Church news
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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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March 9, 2010
Breaking News, Health Care Reform
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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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