By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
British petroleum giant BP has successfully lowered a new and better fitting containment cap onto a well that has been gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 84 days. Pending the result of tests being conducted today and the closing of several vents on the cap, the spill could be halted as early as this week.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The mainstream media are applauding an episode of NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” in which a pregnant high-school girl decides to have an abortion after a high school principal advises her to consider only her own interests without any mention of the life of the child.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After the leaders of the Church of England rejected a compromise that would have averted a schism on the issue of female bishops, seventy Anglican clergy have met with the Catholic Church to discuss conversion to Catholicism.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12 of this year, the apostolic nuncio says the country still looks just as it did the day after the quake.