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Concluding the Fortnight: Now What?
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Concluding the Fortnight: Now What?

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by on Jul 05, 2012 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics, Health & Fitness
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The Holy Hours and prayers have all been said, the letters written to legislators, the blogs have been written, the teach-ins have played themselves out, and the church bells have all been rung. Now What? Where do we go from here, and will our bishops continue to lead us along the way? These are the […]

Kids’ Reaction to Perry is What’s Shuddering
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Kids’ Reaction to Perry is What’s Shuddering

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by on Jan 19, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting
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The subject line of the email from my daughter read, “I shudder.” The text said only, “You won’t believe this,” and included a link to a video that my 14-year-old freshman, Amy, wanted me to see. The video that prompted her concern was an episode of “Teens React,” a YouTube series from Fine Brothers Productions, […]

Iowa's Wild Ride
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Iowa’s Wild Ride

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by on Jan 07, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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The surprising results of Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses have reinforced the conventional wisdom about this season’s Republican primary battle: Nothing about this race is conventional. Presumptive frontrunner former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won Iowa — but by only eight votes. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum stole Romney’s thunder with a come-from-behind quasi-victory that catapulted him from […]

Where is John the Baptist When You Need Him?
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Where is John the Baptist When You Need Him?

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by on Dec 15, 2011 in Featured, Vocations
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During the season of Advent the readings at Mass include passages about John the Baptist, the humble inhabitant of the Judean desert who possessed nothing but the truth and owed no one but the God who created him.  He was fearless in his preaching. He discomfited all in their complacency, but to all he gave […]

Pelosi Blasts Catholics on Abortion: They ‘Have This Conscience Thing’
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Pelosi Blasts Catholics on Abortion: They ‘Have This Conscience Thing’

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by on Nov 23, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted Catholics for fighting for the right not to perform or fund abortions, describing their abhorrence for supporting abortions as “this conscience thing,” in remarks to the Washington Post. Last month, during a debate in the House over a bill to stop abortion funding in the health care […]

Personhood Begins when Life Begins
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Personhood Begins when Life Begins

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by on Nov 07, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Most news reports about Mississippi’s proposed “personhood amendment” have cast the measure’s pro-life sponsors as the aggressors in a brand-new phase of the abortion wars, one in which abortion opponents rely on clever linguistic tricks to launch an unprecedented attack on abortion rights. That storyline omits one important fact: Abortion-rights advocates are the ones who […]