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J.H. Campbell, Jr., President/CEO, Associated Grocers
This Saturday is July the 4th, and our country will celebrate its 233rd birthday. This date commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence by fifty- six (56) men who understood that their actions would have devastating consequences if they were captured. This magnificently drafted document is a testament to [...]
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….Until recently, most Catholic bishops would have remained silent on all of this, acquiescing to faculty demands for academic freedom, despite the fact that Ex Corde Ecclesiae invokes a canon law (canon 812) requiring that all theology professors on Catholic campuses receive a mandatum from their bishops – an acknowledgement by the bishop that the [...]
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June 30th, 2009
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked [...]
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….President Obama’s radical policies, Gallup said, are actually alienating many Americans who would consider themselves to be “pro-choice,” causing them to shift over toward the pro-life position . . . (pro-lifers) to President Obama: it’s our movement, you can join us if you like, but the terms of the debate are already well defined, and [...]
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By Todd Melby Todd Melby,Reuters, June 30, 2009
Oh, Happy Day! Sen. Franken (D) in his SNL days.
MINNEAPOLIS – Democrat Al Franken, a satirist turned politician, was declared the winner of a Senate seat in Minnesota on Tuesday, clearing the way for President Barack Obama’s party to secure a critical 60-seat majority in the Senate.
Ending one of the longest [...]
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LifeSiteNews.com, June 30, 2009
BIRMINGHAM – A Planned Parenthood counselor in Birmingham was caught on hidden camera telling an alleged 14-year-old statutory rape victim that the clinic “does sometimes bend the rules a little bit” rather than report sexual abuse to state authorities. This is the seventh Planned Parenthood clinic implicated in a multi-state child abuse [...]
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….“[T]here are still fellow citizens, perhaps neighbors or even family members and loved ones, who still hold fast to worn arguments and old attitudes; who fail to see your families like their families; and who would deny you the rights that most Americans take for granted.”….
Catholic News Agency, July 1, 2009
Washington D.C. – President Barack [...]
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“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!”
–George Washington, letter to James Warren, March 31, 1779
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Father Steven Liscinsky, LC
Matthew 8: 28-34
When Jesus came to the territory of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs who were coming from the tombs met him. They were so savage that no one could travel by that road. They cried out, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to [...]
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American Catholic, July 1, 2009
In 1776, when the American Revolution was beginning in the east, another part of the future United States was being born in California. That year a gray-robed Franciscan founded Mission San Juan Capistrano, now famous for its annually returning swallows. San Juan was the seventh of nine missions established under [...]
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