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By Mauricio Roman, Inside Catholic, November 27, 2009
Despite profits of $85 million in 2008, Planned Parenthood is facing serious financial difficulties. According to a recent Harvard Business School case study, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is structured as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with multiple affiliates, each of which is also a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The [...]
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Catholic News Agency (EWTN), November 25, 2009
Waren, N.H. - On a local radio show Wednesday morning, Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri commented on the recent publicity of Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, saying that Kennedy made “outrageous statements about the Catholic church.”
Rep. Kennedy was confronted by Bishop Tobin for his attacks on [...]
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“Everything the Democrats are behind today is a fraud and a lie aimed at separating you from your freedom, your property, and your money.”
- Rush
“How about we leave medicine to doctors and the climate to God?”
- Rush
“There are two universes: The Universe of Lies and the Universe of Reality, and in the Universe of Lies [...]
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By John F. Harris, Politico, November 30, 2009
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election [...]
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….Exclusive interview: Senator Inhofe discusses upcoming Copenhagen Climate Conference; also, the Wizard of Gore . . . (He) tells this column this issue has already started to garner “tea-party style attention.” The grass roots organizations across the land are spreading the word that the “man-made warming” hoax is riddled with traps. The possible result? — out [...]
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Star Parker, TownHall.com, November 30, 2009
“The Blind Side” is a beautiful new film based on a magnificent and heartwarming true story.
But I hope that the many who see it do not simply walk out all aglow. It should also produce concern.
This story about hopelessness transformed into achievement should be a typically American story. We [...]
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Fox News’s Glenn Beck took on the global warming e-mail scandal known as ClimateGate Monday, and really laid into all the high-profile scientists involved.
By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, November 23, 2009
As NewsBusters reported Friday, hacked e-mail messages to and from folks with direct access to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show a concerted [...]
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By Austin Hill, TownHall, November 29, 2009
I’m not an attorney.
For better or worse I didn’t go to law school, but rather, I instead went to graduate school to study philosophy.
But you don’t need to be an attorney – or a philosopher – or the Attorney General or the President of the United [...]
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….Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told CNSNews.com that U.S. troops do not have “forensic wagons to pull up on the battlefield when we’ve got people in harm’s way” to collect evidence as is done for civil court cases . . . “They’re [The Obama administration] putting a desire to look good in foreign countries ahead of [...]
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“It will not be doubted, that with reference either to individual, or National Welfare, Agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as Nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent; and renders the cultivation of the Soil more and more, an object of public patronage.”
–George Washington, Eighth Annual Message [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, NOV. 29, 2009
Lafayette, La. (CNA) – Sacred Heart Apostolate, a global movement for renewing societies by centering families on the love of God incarnated in the Heart of Christ, will be hosting a family fun day and a concert for teens in Lafayette, Louisiana in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, [...]
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Liturgical Year B
Gospel – Mt 4:18-22
18. And Jesus, walking near the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).
19. And he said to them: “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
20. [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Saint Andrew was a fisherman from Bethsaida and the brother of Simon Peter. Andrew, Peter, and John the Evangelist were the first of the disciples of Christ. While a disciple of John the Baptist, Andrew, who was still a young man at the time, showed his ardent desire to [...]
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Zoltán Kodály L’Accorche-Choeur, Ensemble vocal Fribourg Veni, Veni Emmanuel is a synthesis of the great “O Antiphons” that are used for Vespers during the octave before Christmas (Dec. 17-23). T…
Zoltán Kodály
L’Accorche-Choeur, Ensemble vocal Fribourg
Veni, Veni Emmanuel is a synthesis of the great “O Antiphons” that are used for Vespers during the octave before [...]
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….In a culture where the influences of Christian traditions are waning many are again asking ‘Why do Christians celebrate Advent?’….
By Deacon Keith Fournier, Catholic Online, 11/27/2009
This Sunday the Season of Advent begins! Millions of the faithful throughout the world, will bring the advent candles out of storage and set it them in a prominent [...]
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….Cardinal Antonio Canizares stated: “The strongest words are found in St. Paul: one who goes to the Eucharist and is not properly prepared, duly prepared, ‘he eats his own condemnation.’ This is the strongest thing that we can say and what is the most truthful statement.”….
By John-Henry Westen, November 27, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
With the Patrick Kennedy [...]
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By John Jalsevac, November 26, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
The unprecedented pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-religious freedom Manhattan Declaration, unveiled in a press conference last Friday, has already been signed by over 150,000 individuals in less than a week, and the numbers are continuing to rise by the second.
The 4,700-word “Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience” was drafted by [...]
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By Kathleen Gilbert, November 27, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Obama’s brief proclamation of Thanksgiving Day on November 26 was unique among all recorded Thanksgiving proclamations by his predecessors: it is the first one that fails to directly acknowledge the existence of God.
The beneficence shown by God to America is a theme that traditionally [...]
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….In his May address to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke said, “In a culture which embraces an agenda of death, Catholics and Catholic institutions are necessarily counter-cultural.” . . . Exactly. Catholicism is necessarily an adversary faith and culture in an America where a triumphant secularism has captured the heights, from [...]
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As long as liberals are left unchallenged in the Church, nothing will improve!
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Exit Stage LEFT – Where You Belong.
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….Unprecedented Coalition of Religious Leaders Call Americans To Stand for Sanctity of Life, Marriage, and Religious Freedom . . . The signatories explained that they speak now because in order “to defend principles of justice and the common good that are now under assault.”….
Catholic News Agency, Nov. 20, 2009
Washington D.C. (CNA) – An unprecedented [...]
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Luke 21: 25 – 28, 34 – 36
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“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,
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men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers [...]
