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By Catholic League, April 30th, 2009
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains this unusual headline:
“The House of Representatives will vote this week, on a hate crimes bill championed by gay groups that includes pedophiles under the rubric of sexual orientation. This is the ultimate confession: liberal Democrats think of pedophiles as indistinguishable from homosexuals.
“When this subject came [...]
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…To argue that human law must always supersede conscience is an invitation to tyranny. The Bill of Rights is an acknowledgement that certain rights-like freedom of religion-are simply, or should be, beyond government’s reach….
By Charles Colson, Catholic Exchange, April 30th, 2009
As I’ve said before on BreakPoint, the Obama administration is planning to revoke the Bush-era “conscience clause” [...]
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By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer, CNSNews.com, April 30, 2009
President Barack Obama speaks at his third primetime news conference at the White House on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
White House (CNSNews.com) – At a primetime press conference Wednesday night, President Barack Obama said his goal is “to get the U.S. government out of the auto [...]
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By Kathleen Gilbert, April 29, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
DENVER, Colorado – Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has weighed in on the controversy at Notre Dame, criticizing the school’s defense of its decision to honor President Obama and praising former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon’s refusal to accept the Laetare Medal at the same ceremony.
53 [...]
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…Copies being rushed to Rome, Papal Nuncio, USCCB and ND Bishop John D’Arcy…
April 29, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
MANASSAS, VA – This morning the first 300,000 names of individuals who signed the petition at NotreDameScandal.com – opposing the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama at this year’s commencement – began to be delivered to [...]
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By Kathleen Gilbert, April 29, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
CONCORD, New Hampshire – New Hampshire’s senate this afternoon voted 13-11 to extend the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, reports the Associated Press. The bill would make New Hampshire the fifth state to legalized same-sex “marriage,” and the third to do so this month.
The measure survived despite [...]
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By Larry Kudlow, TownHall.com, April 29, 2009
In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s popularity and policies moved American politics firmly to the right. In only 100 days, Barack Obama’s politics and policies have shifted America way to the left.
The president is seeking to change the whole relationship between the government and the free-enterprise private sector. He is [...]
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…Obama Targets Tea Bags at Town Hall; Takes Swipe at News Agency That Doesn’t Like Him….
Alexander Burns, POLITICO.COM, April 29, 2009
At his 100th-day town hall meeting in St. Louis Wednesday, President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax “tea party” demonstrations that have cropped up over the last month and took a veiled shot at [...]
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Political and Editorial Cartoons for 4/30/2009,
More Cartoons by Glenn McCoy
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….Then there’s the matter of paying for expanded (health) coverage, which is expected to cost more than $1 trillion over the next decade. Asked yesterday how Congress might find the money, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, laughed. “With great difficulty,” he said…..
“Congress Approves Obama’s $3.4 Trillion Spending [...]
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Thursday of the Second Week of Easter
Father Steven Reilly, LC
John 3:31-36
The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things. But the one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, APRIL 30, 2009
Born Michele Ghisleri, at Bosco, near Alexandria, Lombardy, 17 Jan., 1504, elected pope, 7 Jan., 1566; died 1 May, 1572.
Michele Ghislieri was born of poor parents of noble lineage and was a shepherd until the age of 14 when he encountered two Dominicans who recognized his intelligence and virtue. He [...]
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…Even though extensions had been granted to an initial round of requests to delay the proceedings, the government now says it needs even more time to prepare a response to a question that could be answered with a five-minute telephone call from the president to Hawaiian officials asking that his birth documentation be made public….
Eligibility [...]
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Monsignor Dennis Clark, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange, April 29th, 2009
Acts 8:1-8 / Jn 6:35-40
Saul, the future St. Paul, was a man of extraordinary talent and energy and a born leader. On top of that, he was a devout Jew who strove with all his heart to do the right and to defend the right. When the [...]
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…TV’s most expensive reality program hits prime time again tonight with the president’s speech. Tune in only if you can afford it….
By Kyle Smith, Pajamas Media, April 29, 2009
False tradeoffs
Obama will probably make the point again that anyone who says that more of A means less of B just isn’t using his imagination. Why is [...]
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An F-16 fighter jet trails a larger military aircraft over Lower Manhattan Monday, April 27, 2009, conducting a photo shoot that panicked thousands of New Yorkers who believed the city was in jeopardy for another terrorist attack.
100 Days of Reckless Photo-Op Hubris – Michelle Malkin:
What better way to mark 100 days in office than with [...]
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By Gary Bauer, Human Events, 04/29/2009
With all the taxpayer money President Obama is throwing into his budget and the so-called stimulus bill, not to mention his recent apology tour in Europe and the Caribbean , it’s easy to forget the enormity of Obama’s assaults on conservative social values.
Social conservatives have toiled for more than [...]
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….This then is the principal goal of the left; to separate the people from God by declaring that religion must be cordoned off from public life, that its tenets have no place in politics or anywhere else outside the church door . . . Yes, it is God himself who is in the crosshairs of [...]
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Pro-Abort Sen. Specter Announces Switch to Democratic Party
….Operation Rescue President Troy Newman (said) “It’s good when people are forced to pick sides,” he said. “I would rather have a handful of good men and women who we can count on, than an entire House and Senate of people that waffle every time it comes to [...]
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….”Pregnancy is not a disease,” McQuade stated, “and fertility is not a pathological condition, so Plan B has no authentic therapeutic purpose, and can actually cause harm to women and their newly-conceived children.” . . . A 2000 statement from the Pontifical Academy for Life acknowledged that “the proven ‘anti-implantation’ action of the morning-after pill [...]
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…..”The backlash is due to a great extent the reaction of people who through their intuition, through their common sense, they know that this is just not an acceptable way to take a position on something that is so important,” Cardinal Rigali said . . . “This is a stand in regard to something that is [...]
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By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, April 28, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The president of the national conference of Catholic bishops recently elaborated further on the meeting he had in March with President Barack Obama. Cardinal George told a recent gathering of Catholic priests that Obama says he is not pro-abortion and will eventually work to [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, APRIL 28, 2009
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mexico City, Mexico – The Archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, is encouraging the faithful to pray to Our Lady of Guadalupe for an end to the swine flu epidemic that has taken the lives of more than 100 people in the country.
The cardinal also [...]
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Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
Father Steven Reilly, LC
John 3:16-21
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world [...]
