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Biden to Head Obama China Policy But Ignored Forced Abortions
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2012 at 12:14 pm Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead in formulating a revised policy on U.S.-China relations the Obama administration wants to put into place. This comes after Biden failed...
Top ten Culture of Life stories of 2011
LifeSiteNews - Jan 3, 2012 at 11:54 am by John Jalsevac January 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the resolutions that LifeSiteNews made at the beginning of 2011 was to find and report on more positive stories –...
Washington Post Editorial on Converting to Catholicism
The Sacred Page - Jan 3, 2012 at 11:43 am Here's something you don't see everyday--at least in the mainstream media: a positive portrayal of Catholicism.
The Washington Post has an editorial up by one Bob Arscott. He...
Mom Refuses Abortion, Now Gets Life-Saving Heart Transplant
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2012 at 11:34 am A courageous pregnant women in Tennessee refused her doctor’s suggestion to have an abortion because she was diagnosed with a rare heart condition that required a heart transplant...
True Grid
Commonweal - Jan 3, 2012 at 11:17 am One of the distinctive features of Manhattan is its grid system; it’s streets are straight (more or less) and its corners are echt (more or less). I grew up in a grid city (...
Should An Icon Be Veiled?
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 3, 2012 at 11:00 am In a recent discussion about the tradition of placing metal cladding around some icons, it was suggested that one purpose of the cladding was to convey a theological message. It...
Worth a thousand words — not all of them spelled correctly
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:58 am
Source.
New Web Site Features Women Who Regret Their Abortions
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:56 am The Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a national organization to provide support for women who regret their abortions and want to encourage other women to not make the same...
Thoughts on the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
Commonweal - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:42 am The New York Times reported on the launch January 1 of the new ordinariate (like a diocese, but nation-wide in scope,) for Anglicans wishing to swim the Tiber and become Catholics...
Reader Feedback: we helped prevent a sacrilege
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:40 am Sometime I get feedback from a reader saying that something I wrote prompted him to return to the sacrament of penance or moved her to get her marriage straightened out. Those...
Santorum Tagged as Racist for Saying Obama Should be Pro-Life
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:34 am Welcome to another round of racism fixation, courtesy of the politically transparent liberal media. When Rick Santorum dared to allude to the dehumanization of black Americans in...
Catholic university circulates ad for work with pro-abortion group
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:29 am A Catholic university in New York circulated information about a job opening at an organization promoting legal abortion, the Cardinal Newman Society has learned.
Fordham...
Lay Catholic newsletter recognizes Catholic Spirit’s business leaders program
Catholic Hot Dish - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:28 am Leading With Faith, The Catholic Spirit’s annual award program that honors ethical business leaders in the Twin Cities Catholic community, got front-page recognition of its own...
Dave Barry’s hilarious look back at 2011
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:27 am Here once again is the annual must-read for the first days of January: Dave Barry’s summary of The Year That Was.
Among the things he notes for 2011:
This was a year in which ...
Italian Catholic newspaper endangered as government cuts subsidies
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:26 am Avvenire, the daily newspaper owned by the Italian bishops' conference, faces severe financial pressure because of a cut in government subsidies to the newspaper industry....
Over 2.5 million saw Pope Benedict in 2011
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:22 am More than 2.5 million people saw Pope Benedict XVI at papal audiences and liturgical ceremonies during the past year, the Vatican has disclosed.
The statistics furnished by the ...
Fetal cells integrate into a mother’s body with important positive effects.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:18 am
For your Just Too Cool file.
A reader sent me a link to an article about the integration of fetal cells into the mother’s body and vice versa. The content of the article is...
<i>Boston Globe</I> interviews Cardinal O'Malley, 10 years after breaking scandal story
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:15 am A decade after publishing a shocking report on the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Boston archdiocese, the Boston Globe has published an interview with Cardinal Sean O'Malley...
US troops face severe shortage of Catholic military chaplains
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 10:11 am A shortage of Catholic chaplains has curtailed access to the sacraments for American troops deployed overseas.
The number of Catholic chaplains in active-duty military service...
