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HEY, PRO-’CHOICERS’ . . . . What’s Wrong With Celebrating Life?

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….You’ve got to admit that these pro-abortion groups become more contemptible every year . . . it’s not enough for them to advocate the killing of fetuses in the womb, even by means of that most despicable of procedures, the late-term abortion. It’s not enough that millions of unborn babies have ended up in waste disposal [...]

State of Denial

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Cartoon by Bob Clendaniel

America Rejects What the Elites Are Offering! Why Don’t They Get It?

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By Nate Beeler
 

 
By Brian Farrington

 
By Gary Varvel

Congress’ New Secret Plan to Pass ObamaCare – The Nuclear Option

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….The problem today is that the American people are dealing with an elite class of politicians in Washington that don’t care what the American people think about ObamaCare…..

Posted by: Townhall.com Staff ,  January 29, 2010
 
Guest post from Brian Darling, Director of Senate Relations with the Heritage Foundation
Leaders in the House and Senate have a new secret [...]

Susan B. Anthony List Fights To Keep Tebow’s Ad Rolling

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Posted by: Jillian Bandes, TownHall.com

The National Organization for Women is trying to compel CBS to drop the the Tim Tebow / Focus on the Family pro-life advertisement slated to roll on Super Bowl Sunday. NOW says the pro-life message is disrespectful towards woman, and shouldn’t be aired.
The Susan B. Anthony list is supporting Tebow and [...]

Rove: Obama Faked Bipartisan Outreach for TV

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“Let’s be honest. That was ridiculous what the President said. Even today his own chief lieutant David Axelrod said the purpose of the president going to the Republican conference in Baltimore was to put the Republicans to the test. To make them ‘put up or shut up.’ That it was an attempt to sort of [...]

The Sunday Homily: DISCIPLESHIP AND CONFLICT

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Father James Farfaglia, Pastor, St. Helena of the True Cross of Jesus Catholic Church in Corpus Christi

Our entire life journeys through different stages of existence. Between conception and death, each moment of our lives passes through various times of growth and development. Each stage contains many joys and blessings, which intermingle among challenges and decisions.

The liturgy of [...]

TODAY’S GOSPEL

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010
Liturgical Year C
Gospel – Lk 4:21-30
21. Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22. And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of [...]

Atheist Group Urges Boycott of Mother Teresa Stamp

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….Athiest Gaylor claimed that Dr. King “just happened to be a minister” and that “Malcolm X was not principally known for being a religious figure. And he’s not called Father Malcolm X like Mother Teresa. I mean, even her name is a Catholic honorific.”….

Catholic News Agency, Jan 29, 2010

 

The stamp planned for the U.S. Postal Service.

New York [...]

ST. JOHN BOSCO

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, JANUARY 31, 2010

 
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 the home did not stop the growth [...]

SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 2010

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Taking Back the People’s Seats from Monopoly Rule

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….In Congress, representatives who are too confident of their re-election can become politically tone-deaf and complacent, even if they otherwise work hard on legislation. When times get tough, and voters look skeptically at all incumbents, those signs of arrogance loom large.”….

Fr. Roger J. Landry, The Anchor, Editorial, January 29, 2010
Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley [...]

BREITBART: THE PREZ DOES Q & A WITH REPUBLICANS

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‘Overwhelmingly’: Obama Claims Most of Health Care Debate WAS on C-SPAN
January 29, 2010 at 1:30 pm – MSNBC – Dateline: Baltimore, MD
“The truth of the matter is that, if you look at the health care process, just over the course of the year, overwhelmingly the majority of it actually was on C-SPAN because it was [...]

Justice Roberts Hints He Could Overturn Roe

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….“When considering whether to re-examine a prior erroneous holding, we must balance the importance of having constitutional questions decided against the importance of having them decided right.” The chief justice declared: “stare decisis is not an end in itself.”….

By: Theodore Kettle,  NewsMax, Jan. 24, 2010
Chief Justice John Roberts last week made it clear that the [...]

Scott Roeder Found Guilty of Tiller Murder

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By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews.com, January 29, 2010
WICHITA, Kansas – A Wichita jury found 51-year-old Scott Roeder guilty of first-degree murder Friday for his admitted shooting of late-term abortionist George Tiller last May.
Roeder confessed to shooting the abortionist at point-blank range in the Reformation Lutheran Church, where Tiller, 67, was a parishioner.  Tiller was renowned for [...]

Catholic News Roundup 01-29

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Today’s stories: 

Bishops fed up with Pelosi;
CNN distorts pro-life March;
Dems back at Obamcare;
NOW says Fetus isn’t a life;
Edwards sought abortion for mistress

Never Underestimate the Power of a BIG LIE! If It’s Not a LIFE What is It?

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Seriously?
NOW Leader is either stupid or a liar (or both)

THE GREAT IRONY! CBS News Legal Analyst Slams Feminist Critics of Tebow Super Bowl Ad

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….CBS News legal analyst Jan Crawford has written an article on the CBS News blog criticizing the pro-abortion campaign, saying, “According to the women’s rights groups, Pam Tebow shouldn’t be able to talk about her choice.”  Crawford adds: “They won’t even allow the discussion. And that shows just how much the issue of abortion has been [...]

Krauthammer: Obama’s Only Talk of Terrorism in SOTU Was to Pretend Criticism Attacks His Patriotism

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TODAY’A GOSPEL

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010
Liturgical Year C
Gospel – Mk 4:35-41
35. And on that day, when evening had arrived, he said to them, “Let us cross over.”
36. And dismissing the crowd, they brought him, so that he was in one boat, and other boats were with him.
37. And a great wind storm occurred, and the waves broke [...]

ST. HYACINTHA OF MARISCOTTI

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, JANUARY 30, 2010

 Born of a noble family near Viterbo (Italy,) she entered a local convent of sisters who followed the Third Order Rule. However, she supplied herself with enough food, clothing and other goods to live a very comfortable life amid these sisters pledged to mortification.
A serious illness required that Hyacintha’s confessor [...]

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010

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TIME TO THROW THE BUMS OUT?

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Shock Switch: Pro-Reconciliation Senator Once Called Process ‘Absolute Abuse’

LEADING vs. BLAMING

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LifeSiteNews.com–Petition Launched: Support CBS’s Decision to Air Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad

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….In a recent press release Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life commented on the war over the ad.  “Why should it bother people who call themselves pro-choice if women watch Pam Tebow and her son Tim on Super Bowl Sunday and freely decide to choose life?  Would fewer abortions be a bad thing?”….
Note: Click here [...]