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HINSDALE, Illinois, November 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A congregation of US Dominican nuns has publicly apologized for the scandal caused by one of its members acting as a volunteer escort at a Chicago area abortion facility, who now faces severe canonical penalties including excommunication and the possibility of dismissal.    LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) first broke the story about Sr. Donna Quinn, O.P., a Dominican nun who is outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, who had been identified by pro-life witnesses as an escort for the ACU Health Clinic.Sr. Quinn's religious community, the Wisconsin-based Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation, admitted in a press release posted...

Abstract Irish Catholics in America have a vibrant memory of humiliating job discrimination, which featured omnipresent signs proclaiming "Help Wanted--No Irish Need Apply!" No one has ever seen one of these NINA signs because they were extremely rare or nonexistent. The market for female household workers occasionally specified religion or nationality. Newspaper ads for women sometimes did include NINA, but Irish women nevertheless dominated the market for domestics because they provided a reliable supply of an essential service. Newspaper ads for men with NINA were exceedingly rare. The slogan was commonplace in upper class London by 1820; in 1862 in...

HIBERNIANS SPLIT OVER MCGREEVEYJuly 5, 2004 To become a member of the Catholic, Irish-American fraternal organization, members must take an oath to uphold certain core values. The governor's political views, some say, are opposed to those values. A number of members of an Irish-Catholic organization want Gov. James E. McGreevey removed due to his support of several social and political issues - views that contradict those he once vowed to uphold as a member. The Hibernians are a long-standing Irish-Catholic national organization whose mission, besides advocating a free Ireland, is to act as an advocate for the Roman Catholic Church...