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Pro-Life Group: Congressional Bill Funding Human Embryo Research Coming Soon

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By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, March 31, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A leading pro-life group is warning members of Congress that they may soon face a vote on a bill that would result in funding the destruction of human embryos for research. National Right to Life is calling the bill a [...]

Jesus, I Thirst for You

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“Behold, I stand at the door and knock… (Rev. 3, 20)

“Come to Me all you who thirst…” (Jn. 7: 37).
It is true. I stand at the door of your heart, day and night. Even when you are not listening, even when you doubt it could be Me, I am there. I await even the smallest [...]

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent: The World Hates Christ Because he Bears Witness to Its Evil Works.

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Collect: Lord, help us to do your will that your Church may grow and become more faithful in your service. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Catholic Culture, March 31, 2009
The world [...]

Is America On a Path of Destruction? The Government is Full of Vampires Who Are Trying to Suck the Life-Blood Out of the Economy.

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By Glenn Beck , FOXNEWS, March 30, 2009

The government is full of vampires who are trying to suck the life-blood out of the economy.
A banking friend told me over the weekend that banks will look to pay the bailout money back as fast as they can.
Yeah, right.
Well, President Obama, [...]

BAILOUT DELUXE: BARNEY FRANK WANTS CONTROLS ON PAY OF ALL EMPLOYEES…

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Beyond AIG: A Bill to let Big Government Set Your Salary

….in a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance [...]

Political Hay: Toxic Omnibus Anti-Energy, Anti-Civil Liberties Stew

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.…”This legislation guarantees that we will not take our forests, rivers, oceans, national parks, monuments, and wilderness areas for granted; but rather we will set them aside and guard their sanctity for everyone to share.”….
John Berlau, American Spectator, March 31, 2009

Rammed through by Reid and Pelosi and signed into law [...]

The Catholic Church in America Has Bred Her Own Destroyers

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…..The Catholic Church in America has bred her own destroyers, graduating from doctrinally corrupt catechetical programs, schools and colleges two generations of pro-abortion politicians. Barack Obama, in his effortless Alinskyite style, has exploited this phenomenon to the hilt, seeking out Catholics such as Joe Biden and Kathleen Sebelius to serve [...]

Senate Hearings for Leading Pro-Abortion Politician Sebelius as HHS Secretary to Begin This Week

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…Governor approves abortion restriction for the first time in her career . . . While Sebelius claims to be “personally opposed” to abortion, her record shows a steady opposition to legislation restricting late-term abortion or enforcing existing restrictions.  Once dubbed a pro-abortion “champion” by Planned Parenthood, Sebelius’ consistent public support for abortion [...]

Archbishop Dolan on Notre Dame: ‘They Made a Big Mistake’

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…They made a big mistake … in an issue that is very close to the heart of Catholic world view, namely, the protection of innocent life in the womb…
By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews, 3/31/2009

Dolan is the fifth bishop to condemn the university’s decision since the March 20 announcement that Obama had accepted [...]

In the Dark! Sec. Clinton Praises Margaret Sanger: ‘In Awe of Her’; Day Before Asks “Who Painted It?” (Our Lady of Guadalupe)

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….Secretary of State Clinton expresses admiration for Margaret Sanger and confusion about Our Lady of Guadalupe….

California Catholic Daily, 3/31/2009

I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision… when I think about what she did all those years ago in Brooklyn, taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from [...]

Seven Deadly Sins: Envy

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…The Kingdom of God is not a zero-sum game in which we compete for limited love and respect. Each member of the Body of Christ is of infinite and unique importance… (Rom12:3-8).
By Jeri Holladay, Catholic Online www.catholic.org ,3/31/2009

Cain, for example, envied his brother Abel. Because they were brothers, and in [...]

Obama’s ‘Tectonic Shift’ and You: America’s Road to Serfdom!

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…..Today, the role of government is increasingly to nationalize private enterprise, i.e., destroy it in the name of a “higher” good, a “new era of responsibility” in which government bureaucrats tell you how to run your business and whom to employ. . . . “What our generation has forgotten,” Friedrich [...]

No Checks or Balances for These Sheep

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Obama the Shepherd

by Ronny Gordon

TODAY’S GOSPEL

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John 8: 21 – 30

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Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

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Then said the Jews, “Will he kill himself, since he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

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He said [...]

Homily of the Day: A Heart That Remembers Blessings

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By Monsignor Dennis Clark, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange,   March 31st, 2009

Nm 21:4-9 / Jn 8:21-30
One of the hardest things in life is waiting, but it’s something we have to do all the time. It starts when we’re very small, waiting for Christmas, for our birthday, for the end of the long car ride, or [...]

TODAY’S SAINT: BL. JOAN OF TOULOUSE

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, MARCH 31, 2009

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Blessed Joan of Toulouse lived in the town of Toulouse during the thirteenth century. A Carmelite monastery had been founded in the town in 1240 and this exposed Joan to the Carmelite lifestyle and spirituality. In 1265 when [...]

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009

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Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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Collect: Father of love, source of all blessings, help us to pass from our old life of sin to the new life of grace. Prepare us for the glory of your kingdom. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, [...]

Michele Obama Recently Mentors Young Women to Be Anything They Chose to be in America, “American Idol” Style

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Patriot Post, Monday Brief – Vol. 09 No. 13
CULTURE

“While the president was away in L.A., the first lady played mentor, with the help of some stars. She organized a round-robin of visits to Washington D.C. schools and a White House event for young girls, to demonstrate to them they could grow [...]

THE GIPPER

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Patriot Post, Monday Brief – Vol. 09 No. 13

“When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no [...]

Obama’s ‘Christian Charity’–Giving Away Other People’s Money

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Patriot Post, Monday Brief – Vol. 09 No. 13

FAITH AND FAMILY
“President Barack Obama has gotten a lot of mileage out of his appeals to people of faith. He portrays himself as one of them, a convert who found Jesus and a new purpose for living through community organizing in Chicago. His [...]

The Modern Liberal Believes . . . .

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LIBERTY
“The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state, thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede the objective of a utopian state. In this, Modern Liberalism promotes what [...]

Dictates of Conscience – or Dictated Conscience?

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….President Obama has directed the Department of Health and Human Services to rescind the conscience clause . . .“the ‘right to choose’ has become the ‘right to coerce.’”….

By Kim Shaftner MD, American Center for Law and Justice www.aclj.org/ , 3/30/2009

Mandating professional compliance is a heavy-handed, despotic approach and hardly reflects Obama’s self-described [...]

Closing Ranks on Canon 915

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By Deal W. Hudson, Inside Catholic, 3-30-09

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius received some good news last week when abortionist Dr. George Tiller was found not guilty of breaking state laws regulating late-term abortion. The relationship between Tiller and Sebelius would surely have played a role in her upcoming confirmation hearings had he been found guilty.

But [...]

Suddenly One Morning, Tyranny

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….We’ve obviously become a nation of foolish people who no longer see right and wrong in clear, bold, and distinctive colors . . . Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs. History records the hard reality of those nations that tried to separate God’s rule from their laws and culture. They [...]