Special Report

Informed Dissent

April 28, 2011 Daniel Allott 0

I couldn’t see it at first. I had just walked into the Centro Tepeyac Women’s Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, north of Washington, DC. It was late January, and I had come to see for […]

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Like A Time-Release Capsule

April 28, 2011 Kathy Shaidle 0

The organizers of World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto had computed the logistics, double-checked the protocol, and considered every eventuality. For instance, they knew they had to shelter, feed, and hydrate hundreds of thousands of […]

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Urgent Attention

April 28, 2011 Elenor K. Schoen 0

  At the November 2010 meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore, a motion was presented by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, that the USCCB create a policy statement […]

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The Communicators

April 27, 2011 Joanna Bogle 0

The relationship between the Church and the mass media is not an easy one. But a new generation of Catholic writers, publishers, and journalists in Britain is breaking new ground—and making good use of all […]

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Down Syndrome and Abortion

April 27, 2011 Daniel Allott 0

Sarah Palin is not the only one. Right now 400,000 mothers are going through the same experiences every day—the simple joys, the profound challenges, the unexpected blessings. Ann Robertson is one of them. Like Palin, […]

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A Silent Genocide

April 27, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

The deadliest fighting since World War II has not taken place during a major war like Korea or Vietnam, or in a well-known genocide like Cambodia’s or Darfur’s, but in a conflict that has received […]

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Say Less, Do More

April 27, 2011 Elenor K. Schoen 0

In 1986, Mary Cunningham Agee created a network of services and volunteers to serve the needs of women facing unplanned pregnancies and their babies. A personal tragedy became her inspiration for helping others, and with […]