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Faith-Based Activism

May 10, 2011 Anne Hendershott 0

The pro-life community had reason to celebrate recently when they learned that the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Abortion Center in Bryan/College Station, Texas resigned from her job. Abby Johnson had worked at the […]

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Rome’s Bold Answer

May 10, 2011 Philip F. Lawler 0

Pope Benedict XVI caught the world by surprise with the announcement that he is creating a new structure within the Catholic hierarchy to accommodate Anglicans who wish to enter the Catholic Church. At an October […]

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No to Neocolonialism

May 10, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 1

Addressing a group of African bishops less than a year before his death, Pope John Paul II rejoiced in the vitality of the Church on that continent—a vitality that continues to this day. In 1978, […]

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Mixed Signals

May 10, 2011 Anne Hendershott 0

The battle over health care reform promises to be the most expensive one ever waged in Congress, as armies of lobbyists advance on Washington to demand that new legislation reflect their interests. Recognizing the high […]

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The First Vocation Crisis

May 10, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

Addressing the societal collapse of marriage, the US bishops have issued a pastoral letter praised by defenders of the Church’s teaching on family life. In an August interview, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York discussed […]

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The People’s Veto

May 10, 2011 Sean Higgins 0

In the days leading up to Maine’s gay marriage vote on November 3, it seemed like a big, possibly momentous, shift in American culture was about to take place, one that could give major momentum […]

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A Poison in the Home

May 9, 2011 Patrick F. Fagan 0

The fact that marriage rates are dropping steadily is well known. But the impact of pornography use and its correlation to fractured families has been little discussed. The data show that as pornography use and […]

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The Belgian Borromeo

May 9, 2011 Michael J. Miller 0

On January 18, 2010, the Vatican announced that, in keeping with canon law, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, metropolitan archbishop of Malines-Brussels since 1979, had submitted his resignation upon completing his 75th year of age and that […]

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The People of God with Israel

May 9, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

In 1928, when the future Pope Benedict XVI was 11 months old, the Holy Office, under the leadership of the vigorously anti-modernist Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, decreed that “the Catholic Church has always prayed […]

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Behind the Scenes

May 9, 2011 Edward Pentin 0

Most Catholics would be hardpressed to name a Vatican diplomat. So much of their work takes place behind the scenes that sometimes it’s easy to forget the Holy See has overseas envoys at all. Yet […]