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NY Archbishop on Outspoken Abortion Teaching: I’m Just Doing My Job

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By Kathleen Gilbert, February 26, 2010, LifeSiteNews.com

NEW YORK – Following a period of relative silence since his installation last year, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan eagerly took an opportunity to set forth Church teaching on controversial points, including the forbidding of public honors for pro-abortion politicians, in a recent interview with NY1.  The bishop also [...]

Rep. Smith Voices Concerns Over International Promotion of Abortion to Hillary Clinton

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….“Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed” ….
Catholic News Agency, Feb 27, 2010

Rep. Chris Smith
Washington D.C. – At a recent House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) addressed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the international promotion of abortion. Calling [...]

Preparing Americans for Hyperinflation

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The Dollar Bubble

The Dollar Bubble starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Marc Faber, Gerald Celente, Jim Rogers, and others. Prepare now for the U.S. dollar collapse.

GOP Congressman Trent Franks: Abortion Devastates African-Americans More Than Slavery Did

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“Half of all black children are aborted.”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2010

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The Sunday Homily: THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE CROSS

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Father James Farfaglia, February 27, 2010  

A man and a woman had a little daughter that they adored. Audrey was their only child. They lived their whole lives for their little child. When she became chronically ill and her illness resisted the efforts of the best doctors, the parents became totally discouraged and inconsolable.

 
Soon Audrey did [...]

The True Meaning of Lent

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Fr. Roger J. Landry
The Anchor
Editorial
February 26, 2010
The richness, depth and clarity of the homilies and catecheses Pope Benedict has given during his first five years as the successor of St. Peter have provoked several experts in Church history to start comparing them to the works of the greatest Fathers of the early Church. There’s a [...]

The Student Loan Problem

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By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,  Catholic Exchange, February 27th, 2010
You may have seen the recent story about the 41-year-old doctor who graduated from medical school in 2003 with student-loan indebtedness of $250,000 that has since swelled to more than $555,000. She is now scheduled to pay $990 per month until she is 70 years old. Ouch!

This is [...]

Healthcare Summit: Chicago Style

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Government health insurance isn’t supposed to be cheap, it’s supposed to be bought.

By Jed Babbin, Human Events, 02/26/2010

Senate Democrat “moderates” probably slept well last night, but no House Blue Dog should have.  In the marathon Blair House healthcare “summit,” the Chicago Obama family made it perfectly clear that the Senate Dems are protected “made men” but [...]

Where Have All the Good Men Gone?

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Real Men Are Catholic Men!

Life of St. Francis

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For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
- Matthew 7:14
When Francis was assailed by temptations, he would throw himself naked into ditches full of snow or roll in a briar patch. He called his body, “brother donkey,” and denied himself many legitimate [...]

GOSPEL & MEDITATION: Do You Really Want to Be Perfect?

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Father Barry O’Toole, LC – Matthew 5:43-48
“You have heard that it was said, ´You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.´ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad [...]

BLESSED MARIA CARIDAD BRADER

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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, FEBRUARY 27, 2010

 
Maria Caridad Brader was born in Kaltburn, Switzerland, in 1860. Raised in a pious family, she was very intelligent, and received the best education her parents could provide. There were high expectations for her continued study, but instead she joined the Franciscan convent in 1880, made final vows two years [...]

FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 2010

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Prominent Christian Leader Is Disinvited From Military Prayer Luncheon Over Gays in Service Issue

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“As one who took the oath to defend and protect our freedoms, I am disappointed that I’ve been denied the opportunity to speak to members of the military, in a non-political way, solely because I exercised my free speech rights in a different forum.”

Catholic News Roundup 02-25

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Today’s Stories:

Bishops’ Conference refuses to respond;
British students learn homosexuality;
Adoptive children get two parents;
No Holy Communion;
Catholic Healthcare Protest

Modernism’s Full Impact 02-25

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Pope St. Pius X nailed the modern crisis in the Church, over a hundred years ago.
Go to Pius’s Encyclical

Summit Over, Democrats Move to Ram Healthcare Into Law

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….Talk of bipartisanship quickly dissipated Thursday night in the aftermath of President Barack Obama’s healthcare summit. The president said compromise may be impossible while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid openly discussed pushing the increasingly unpopular healthcare legislation into law with arm-twisting and parliamentary maneuvers….. FULL STORY BELOW….

By: David A. Patten, Newsmax, February 25, 2010

 
“So far [...]

Another Perspective: Something Fishy

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It’s Lent and some folks have never eaten so well, especially on Friday.

 
Christopher Orlet, American Spectator, 2.26.10
Catholics, the world over, are in the midst of the Lenten season. Lent, of course, means many things to many people. For some, it is a time of preparation. For others, it is about sacrifice. For me, Lent has [...]

What Didn’t Get Said at the Summit

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….What became most outstanding is that President Obama and his teammates still do not have any real understanding of how the current system works….
By William Tucker, American Spectator, Feb. 26, 2010

About halfway through yesterday’s all-day healthcare summit, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina told another of the many insurance company horror stories that peppered the [...]

Pelosi’s Misdirection on Public Funding for Abortion

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Douglas Johnson, National Review, February 25, 2010

Speaker Pelosi has her own idiosyncratic dictionary, one in which federal agencies can pay for abortion on demand without spending “public funds” or “taxpayer funds” for abortion. In ordinary English, however, this is deceptive claptrap. Every version of the health-care bill has contained multiple pro-abortion mandates and federal subsidies for abortion [...]

Ducking and Dodging! A Bill Fraught With Gimmicks?

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….What became clear at the health-care summit is that the Democrats just don’t have an answer to Rep. Paul Ryan’s arguments. They ducked, dodged, and changed the subject repeatedly, because Ryan’s numbers themselves are unimpeachable . . . The Democrats can’t explain away the gimmicks in their health bill….
STEPHEN SPRUIELL, American Spectator, THE HEALTH-CARE SUMMIT 02/25

“We [...]

DRUDGE HEADLINES FROM THURSDAY’S HEALTH CARE SUMMIT

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Does Obama Master Condescension at Health Care Summit?

—-NOW WHAT?
—-News channels quickly lose interest in summit…
—-DEMS SPEAK 233 MINS VS. 114 MINS FOR REPUBLICANS…
—-‘I don’t count my time because I’m the President’…
—-TIMES OF LONDON: Obama bores America into submission…
—-RAHM-IT-THROUGH STARTS MONDAY; DEMS DECIDE TO PUSH –’THE BIG BILL’…
—-Pelosi: Health Reform Will Create 400,000 Jobs ‘Almost Immediately’…
—-McCain [...]

Day 9 of 40 Days for Life: The Difference You Can Make

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Commentary by David Bereit, National Coordinator, 40 Days for Life, February 25, 2010, 40DaysforLife.com
Do you know how important your presence in front of  an abortion center can be? Here are a few reports  from local 40 Days for Life campaigns that just begin to tell the story.
One of the prayer volunteers in Houston, Texas says [...]

LifeNews.com Headlines: Feb. 26, 2010

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OBAMA TOLD AT WHITE HOUSE HEALTH CARE SUMMIT AMERICANS DON’T WANT ABORTION
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – It took almost the entire length of the debate at the White House health care summit for the issue of abortion to come up and, when it did, pro-life Rep. John Boehner told President Barack Obama that Americans don’t want [...]