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McKinsey consultant to suggest steps to streamline Roman Curia
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:19 pm Pope Francis has asked a German management consultant to suggest administrative changes at the Vatican.
Thomas von Mitschke-Collande, a manager of the international consulting...
World Leaders Condemn Myanmar’s Two-Child Policy, Ignore China’s One-Child Policy
LifeNews.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:14 pm A senior government official in Myanmar expressed support on Tuesday for a Two-Child Policy for the Muslim Rohingya minority. First implemented in 2005, the policy aims to control...
Quiet novel goes global
Commonweal - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:14 pm The John Williams novel Stoner is (back?) in the news, now that it’s a best-seller in the Netherlands, France, and elsewhere.
Implications of Emergency Contraception
Archdiocese of Saint Louis - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:02 pm From the St. Louis Review - By Jennifer Brinker
The recent push to make emergency contraception more widely available in the United States raises questions about the mechanisms...
Boehner: No Apologies for Pushing 20-Week Abortion Ban, Gosnell Made It Necessary
LifeNews.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:38 pm Speaker John Boehner has been on the receiving end of attacks from Democrats about how he and Republicans in the U.S. House would push a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks of...
Pelosi touts her Catholicism, pro-abortion stance... (she's insane)
The Forum - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:38 pm Pelosi gets mighty flustered, and for obvious reasons. Her position (anti-Kermit Gosnell yet pro-abortion) is irreconcilable.
El Salvador Outmaneuvers International Pro-Abortion Cabal
LifeNews.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:09 pm San Salvador, El Salvador (CFAM) — An attempt to use a hard case to change national abortion laws unexpectedly backfired on UN human rights experts and abortion advocates this...
Good Times for a Good Cause
CatholicMom.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Floral arrangement from From the Heart dinner dance
Pro-choice people sometimes complain to pro-lifers, “Why don’t you stop telling people what to do and actually help them?” ...
Pelosi Defends Late-Term Abortion as “Sacred Ground”
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:53 pm Details, from ABC News: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today bickered with a conservative reporter who asked her to explain the moral difference between live-birth murder and...
Ukrainian Catholics, Orthodox move to mend ties
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:49 pm Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the leader of the Eastern-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church, has issued an invitation to the country's most prominent Orthodox leader to attend...
Iraqi Christians must maintain strong presence: Chaldean Catholic Synod
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:36 pm Christians should continue to serve as "a bridge between communities" in Iraq, the Chaldean Catholic Synod proclaimed at the close of a meeting in Baghdad.
Although half of Iraq's...
Ireland Govt Called “Dishonest” for Saying New Bill “Restricts” Abortions
LifeNews.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:34 pm The government of Ireland is coming under fire from a top pro-life group, which says it is “dishonest” for governmental leaders to call the new bill on abortions “restrictive”...
Pope confirms he is completing encyclical on faith begun by Benedict XVI
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:27 pm Pope Francis has confirmed that he is completing an encyclical that was begun by Pope Benedict XVI, on the subject of faith.
Before announcing his plans to resign, Pope Benedict...
Quebec's end-of-life bill decried as Belgian-style euthanasia
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:22 pm Repeated patient request would lead to ‘terminal pain sedation’
OTTAWA, Ontario — Pro-life and other groups joined forces to denounce a bill governing end-of-life care introduced...
RECENT POSTS and THANKS and MASS for benefactors
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:13 pm First, please remember to check YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS:
Some posts as they scroll off the front page:
Of Star Wars and Immanentism and Birdcages and Elite Snobbery. Wherein...
Bill Would Force All Quebec Hospitals, Nursing Homes to Offer Euthanasia
LifeNews.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:12 pm A bill to legalize euthanasia in Quebec has been filed, and it is a radical disaster.
First, it would require that all “institutions,” e.g., hospitals, nursing homes, and...
Supreme Court Rules Human Genes Cannot be Patented
Creative Minority Report - Jun 13, 2013 at 1:56 pm *subhead*Yay! Common Sense.*subhead*
Political cartoon by David Horsey
Almost a year ago, I wrote "Owning Genes" here at Creative Minority Report. In that post I discussed the...
Sarah Palin Blasts Bill Maher After He Calls Son With Down Syndrome “Retarded”
LifeNews.com - Jun 13, 2013 at 1:51 pm Sarah Palin didn’t mince any words after “comedian” Bill Maher called her son Trig, who has Down Syndrome, “retarded.”
According to reports, Maher called Palin’s 5-year-old son...
Five Things To Remember On June 13
USCCB Media Blog - Jun 13, 2013 at 1:51 pm 1. The Fortnight for Freedom will begin a week from today with a kickoff Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore....
