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Catholic, Pro-Life Michael Steele Takes Over Leadership of RNC

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Catholic News Agency, Jan 30, 2009

Michael Steele / Photo Credit: Rockville Central
Washington DC -  The Republican National Committee has chosen Michael Steele, a devout Catholic who is well-known for his charisma and strong work ethic, as its new chairman.
Steele, who previously served as the lieutenant governor of Maryland, is the first [...]

Fr. Richard Neuhaus – What is Contentment?

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The late Father Richard John Neuhaus offers his thoughts
on finding contentment and inner peace. (6:01)

Obama’s Targeting Rush Limbaugh Bares Agenda

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….As if in conspiratorial lockstep, the media are dutifully responding with round-the-clock distortions and deceitful context manipulation of Rush’s clearly articulated statement that he hopes Obama’s socialist blueprint for America fails, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is circulating a petition denouncing him……
By: David Limbaugh,  NewsMax.com, January 30, 2009
In [...]

RECENT ARTICLES

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Exporting Abortion And The Ugly American
By Steven W. Mosher, Catholic Exchange, January 31st, 2009
http://catholicexchange.com/2009/01/31/115275/

Obama Deputy Attorney General Nominee: Childbirth Worse Than Abortion
By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, January 29, 2009 http://www.lifenews.com/nat4804.html

President Barack Obama Forces Taxpayers to Fund, Promote Worldwide Abortions
by Steven Ertelt. LifeNews.com Editor, January 23, 2009
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4781.html
Pro-Life Advocates: Obama [...]

A Super Bowl of Faith as Both Steelers and Cardinal Owners Are Deeply Committed Christians

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….Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin said, “First and foremost, I want people to know who I am and what the most important thing is in my life, my relationship with Jesus Christ.  Football is what we do; faith is who we are all the time.”….

By John-Henry Westen, January 30, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
TAMPA [...]

Exclusive Interview: Pro-Life People Must Not Lose Heart with Obama Election Says Vatican Archbishop

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…..Says the movement must never stop trying to overturn Roe v Wade . . . (Archbishop Raymond Burke) particularly urged pro-life and family people to be on guard against becoming discouraged. “Discouragement is itself a prime temptation that Satan uses to get people to stop working for the good”…..
By Hilary [...]

THE SUNDAY HOMILY: JESUS CAN HEAL US

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Fr. James Farfaglia, Corpus Christi, Tx, January 30, 2009

Satan has deceived the world to believe that he does not exist, that there is no sin and that there is no hell. Nevertheless, Jesus tells us something to the contrary.
“I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10: 18). He was a [...]

TODAYS’ GOSPEL & MEDITATION: The Fruit of the Kingdom

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Friday of the Third Week of Ordinary Time, Jan. 31, 009
Father Ernest Daly, LC
Mark 4:26-34
Jesus said to the crowds, “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and [...]

TODAY’S SAINT: ST. JOHN BOSCO

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, JANUARY 31, 2009

John was born in 1815 in Recchi, Italy. When John was two, his father died prematurely. As a boy, John lived on a farm with his family doing the only thing they knew how, farming. Poverty and a lack of formal education in [...]

FRIDAY, JAN. 30, 2009

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Does Rahm Emanuel’s Band of Brothers Cross the Line Between Politics and Media?

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FOXNEWS.COM, JAN. 30 2009
…..One Wonders. . . Is Obama a Figure-Head Sitting Aboard a Big Clinton Machine? Crossing the Line Between Politics and Media . . . Where does Obama Begin and End?….
WATCH: http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21815273/conflict_call.htm

DEFEND LIFE! The 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast

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http://www.walkforlifewc.com/

Thousands more turned out for the 2009 Walk for Life West Coast despite a chance of rain. No rain this year, but lots of enthusiasm and excitement as more than 30,000 walked from Justin Herman Plaza along the Embarcadero to Marina Green on Saturday, January 24.
“We shall overcome!” said Frank Lee of Asian Americans [...]

2009 West Coast Walk For Life

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January 27, 2009

Nice Walk for Life Video Slideshow
This is from Cartago Delenda Est.

2009 West Coast Walk For Life from Matteo on Vimeo.

Trusting Completely in the Lord

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St. Paul did not seek the counsel of other Christians,
but trusted entirely in the Lord:

“But when (God), who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I [...]

This Week’s ‘Braying Jackass’ Award

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Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 04
“The fact that we are talking about this very large, by traditional standards, recovery package is an acknowledgment that the — the — the right-wing philosophy of ‘leave the market alone,’ it hasn’t worked. Now, it’s a mistake sometimes politically to accept your basic [...]

THE FOUNDATION

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Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 04
“A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
–Second Amendment, United States Constitution

To support and defend…

Obama’s Unnecessary Apology (to Muslims)

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…..Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them . . . this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on earth. Why [...]

“Intro to Christ” by Steve Harvey

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HUMOR

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Cartoon by Glenn McCoy

Today’s Political Cartoon

Obama May Need To Reassure Americans, Not Muslims

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….Last week, he extended new rights to terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay while authorizing the sentencing to death of innocent children around the world through taxpayer-funded abortion…..
By Gary Bauer, HUMAN EVENTS, 01/30/2009
Scanning the new White House website can be an exercise in anger management for conservatives. The two dozen items under “The Agenda” [...]

Obama and Lincoln: Superficial Similarities, Substantive Hypocrisy

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…..Unlike Lincoln, who understood that there is no “right” to commit a wrong, Obama has not only refused to fight to protect the unborn and free them from persecution, but he has made it clear that the discrimination and wanton killing of the unborn is a “right” that should be protected…..
[...]

MSM REPORTS ON Obama’s Ethics Rules . . . Made to Be Broken?

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CNN’s Campbell Brown asks Obama administration officials to do what they think is best for the country….MR. OBAMA… ‘Be Straight With Us’
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“My view is simple: Mr. President, if you want to hire former lobbyists because you think they are the best people to do the job, then [...]

Getting to No

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…It’s sad that it took so long for Republicans to take a united stand against government spending, but better late than never . . . the horrendous $819 billion stimulus package is a rotten piece of legislation that uses the economic crisis as a pretext to spend hundreds of billions on a [...]

CatholicVote.org’s Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad Sacked

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Posted by Tom McFeely, National Catholic Register, January 29, 2009

Screenshot of NBC’s Super Bowl website.
NBC has refused to air CatholicVote.org’s new pro-life ad during its broadcast of this Sunday’s Super Bowl game.
According to a Jan. 29 press release from CatholicVote.org, “After several days of negotiations, an NBC representative in Chicago told CatholicVote.org late yesterday that [...]

B. Hussein Obama: “I Am Absolutely Convinced the Culture Wars Are So 90’s” . . . .

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B. Hussein Obama Promises to Sign FOCA
B. Hussein Obama:  “…We’re at a crossroads right now in America and we have to move this country forward. . . .There will always be people, many of good will,  who do not share my view on the issue of “choice” . . . on this fundamental issue, I [...]