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Missing 9-Month Pregnant Woman Found Dead in Her Car, Her Unborn Baby Died Too
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 4:42 pm In a tragic case in California, a missing woman who was 9-months pregnant has been found dead in her car, and her unborn child is dead as well.
Aubrey Andrews vanished on December...
Doctors Keep Brain-Dead Pregnant Mother Alive to Save Her Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 4:24 pm A recent case of a clinically brain-dead pregnant woman is stirring controversy in Ireland. The mother is in her twenties, 17-weeks pregnant and doctors have decided to keep her...
New York taxpayers must pay for transgender surgeries through Medicaid: Cuomo
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 4:22 pm Cuomo says this will help transgender people meet their 'gender goals,' but Bill Donohue of The Catholic League calls it 'an abuse of Medicaid.'
Irish Member of Parliament Breaks Law to Purchase Abortion Pills
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:56 pm TD Ruth Coppinger, a Dublin West Deputy, has said she’s “helped” around two dozen women buy abortion pills online. Currently, the deadly pills are illegal in Ireland; however,...
Vatican’s investigation into US sisters ends with conciliation and whitewash
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:50 pm Veteran Vatican reporter John Allen says the report is a 'sign of a more conciliatory approach under Pope Francis.'
Unfertilized ovum is not human embryo, European court rules in stem-cell case
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:44 pm The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that a corporation can patent human stem cells, provided that they are not derived from an embryo that can develop into a...
Rick Santorum planning 2016 presidential bid amidst crowded field
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:32 pm 'America loves an underdog. We’re definitely the underdog in this race,' he told the Washington Post.
Gratitude and caution over new Cuba policy
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:29 pm Washington D.C., Dec 18, 2014 / 02:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic bishops in the U.S. and Cuba rejoiced at the historic announcement of a new relationship between the countries...
In Pictures – December 18, 2014
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:09 pm GUADALUPE FEAST
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Today’s Desperate Lies from Torture Defenders
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 18, 2014 at 3:04 pm In the ongoing effort of “prolife” Torture Defenders to ignore the fact that, among other things, we anally raped, froze to death, beat, stood on the broken legs of, and...
Nativity Scene will Depict the True Meaning of Christmas and Provide a Positive Counterpart to Satanic Display at Michigan State Capitol
Thomas More Society - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:57 pm Unveiling Ceremony Set for Friday, December 19 at 12:00pm on Capitol East Lawn (Southside), with Senator Rick Jones
Lansing, MI – This Christmas Season, the Michigan Nativity...
For All of Us, Dying to Live
Incarnation and Modernity - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:56 pm __________ In the prelude to Christmas, death seems absent. It hides well in the packaging of these days. We have lost the pause of Advent, the time to think of what the coming of...
5Q+1 interview, part 2: RNS writer David Gibson on what GetReligion doesn't 'get' about religion news coverage
GetReligion - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:45 pm
Second of two parts
In case you missed it, we ran the first — and my favorite — part of our interview with award-winning Religion News Service national reporter David Gibson on...
Beyond ‘The Interview’: UN votes to send North Korea to Intl Criminal Court for forced abortion, other atrocities
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:41 pm The UN found that North Korea subjected tens of thousands of political prisoners to 'murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence.'
Fair-trade commerce supports just wages, safe conditions for workers
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:36 pm MARYKNOLL, N.Y. — Fair-trade chocolate tastes better than its commercially produced counterparts, “because you can’t taste the blood of the worker,” Cara Weidinger said.
She was...
Irish High Court prepares to rule in case of pregnant woman kept alive to save baby
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:19 pm 'The legal advice would be there is one life here and it is the unborn child. Everything practicable has to be done,' says the hospital.
The nurse repeatedly urged her to abort: now her baby is her 7-year-old ‘joy’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:17 pm 'I look at this kid and I always think to myself, my God, if I had listened to that woman!' she said.
Author Describes the Shocking Thing She Saw Watching Abortions for Book Research
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:09 pm Author Magda Denes witnessed abortions for her book In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Hospital:
“I am drawn to the unit, irresistible, by my reactions of...
A Catholic Approach to Holiday Merriment
CatholicMom.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm
“Actions speak louder than words.” “One picture is worth a thousand words.” “Talk is cheap.” We have lots of different sayings that generally express the same thing–words...
U.S. Army chaplain reprimanded for citing Scripture in suicide prevention training
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm The complaint was filed by an outside atheist group. 'There was never a formal complaint from anyone inside the unit,' says Colonel Ron Crews of the Chaplain Alliance for...
