Archive for December, 2012

Would You Say That to My Face?
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Would You Say That to My Face?

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by on Dec 06, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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In recent decades, America has made many wonderful advances in protecting the rights of people with disabilities and including them in society. Gone are the days of forced sterilization and institutionalization. Now we have laws making disability discrimination illegal and most public places handicap accessible. Children with special needs are able to get an education in most public school […]

Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò
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The Apostolic Nuncio Explains It All

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by on Dec 06, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Religious freedom, persecution, and martyrdom in the age of Obama. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Vatican’s Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, is a well-traveled man, having served in Iraq, Kuwait, Great Britain, Strasbourg, Nigeria and, now, the United States. As a churchman and a diplomat, the Archbishop is in a unique position to analyze […]

The Three Sacrifices of Giving
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The Three Sacrifices of Giving

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by on Dec 06, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Women
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” drawls Stella in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” And it’s particularly true if you have a large family. Strangers as well as friends often provide our large family with their extras – a wonderful, win-win redistribution which helps level our budget shortfalls. But true giving […]

Giving a Voice to the 491 Canadian Children Who Survived Abortions and Were Left to Die
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Giving a Voice to the 491 Canadian Children Who Survived Abortions and Were Left to Die

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by on Dec 06, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Children surviving abortions.  Children surviving abortions and being left to die.  Very seldom do many in our world think about these circumstances, because, frankly, it seems impossible and at the same time horrifying.  And if these kinds of circumstances are considered, let’s be honest:  most people think that failed abortions and children left to die […]

Choosing Acreage Over Stocks
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Choosing Acreage Over Stocks

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, Personal Finance
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From an early age, my dad drilled into my head the lessons of compounding interest. It was quite simple: start investing in stocks early on in life, add just a little each month, wait a while, and watch as your savings grows by leaps and bounds! Numbers were touted about how the market had averaged […]

Reflections for Sunday, December 9, 2012
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Reflections for Sunday, December 9, 2012

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Catechesis, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Baruch 5:1-9; Psalm 126:1-6 ; Philippians 1:4-6,8-11; Luke 3:1-6) Advent, A Time to Allow God’s Word to Transform You “A voice of one crying out in the desert.” (Luke 3:4) Tiberius. Pilate. Herod. Philip. Lysanias. Annas. Caiaphas. These men ruled the secular and religious worlds at the […]

Killing Them Softly?
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Killing Them Softly?

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
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During the months leading up to the passage of Obamacare, Sarah Palin was mocked and excoriated for her use of the term “death panels” to describe the comparative effectiveness approach embraced by architects of the legislation.  Granted, the phrase sounds a bit hyperbolic, and downright macabre.  Who could possibly be in favor of faceless bureaucrats […]

Loving the Forgotten Ones
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Loving the Forgotten Ones

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Featured, Health & Fitness, Live in Christ
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This week, M expressed a very clear desire to commit suicide, including the method of ending life.  Racked with pain, deteriorating health, loneliness and a lack of familial, spiritual and friendly support, M has had enough of living. Statistics in Canada estimate that the number of depressed, suicidal elderly people is 14%.  (Canadian Mental Health […]

Abortion, Casuistry, and Dancing on the Head of a Pin, Part I
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Abortion, Casuistry, and Dancing on the Head of a Pin, Part I

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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I have elsewhere argued that Savita Happlanavar’s tragic death cannot be pinned on either Irish law nor on Catholic teaching. It may be that Irish law concerning abortion, miscarriage, and care for women who are undergoing miscarriage and who are in danger of Septicemia (or other life-threatening situations) needs to be clarified, though as it currently stands we have: The decision […]

Ferial Day
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Ferial Day

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by on Dec 05, 2012 in Saint of the Day, Uncategorized
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UNICEF Should Rename Itself the United Nations Sex for Children Fund, or UNISEX
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UNICEF Should Rename Itself the United Nations Sex for Children Fund, or UNISEX

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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UN agency presses Peru to acknowledge the “sexual rights” of children and hands out free contraceptives to kids. The debate over a new Code on Childhood and Adolescence is raging in Peru. On the one side are UNICEF, UNFPA, Save the Children and a coalition of abortion-minded and radical feminist groups, many, if not most, […]

Judge Judy and Distributism
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Judge Judy and Distributism

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Featured, On Media
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Judge Judy fascinates me. It’s true, my tastes are a bit odd. I’ll admit to that. In fact, there are only three television shows I watch regularly—The Journey Home on EWTN, in which Marcus Grodi interviews converts to the Catholic Faith; Phineas and Ferb, a Disney Channel cartoon and the only TV show in history to feature a secret agent […]

Money Back Guarantee Babies: IVF Has Officially Reached the Bottom of the Barrel
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Money Back Guarantee Babies: IVF Has Officially Reached the Bottom of the Barrel

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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When I read this article, I couldn’t shake the chills that went up my spine. I’m sure there is plenty of evil out in the world that I’ll never know about, but it doesn’t cease to amaze or shock me at man’s capacity and almost downright ingenuity — for lack of a better word — and […]

Apparitions at Holy Love Ministries Revisited
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Apparitions at Holy Love Ministries Revisited

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ
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A few years ago, I first wrote about Holy Love Ministries, the 83-acre site of Maranatha Spring in Ohio. People have been going to this place since the early 1990‘s, drawn by founder Maureen Sweeney-Kyle’s claim that Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary and a host of saints are appearing to her with messages. On the surface, […]

Amazing New Technology Shows Unborn Twins Jockeying for Space
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Amazing New Technology Shows Unborn Twins Jockeying for Space

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Tips, Tools, Tech
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Any Internet sensation—even if it colorfully overinterprets what is taking place—that further clarifies how child-like the unborn child is will always be welcomed. Enter “Twins fighting in the womb,” actually better described as two babies, approximately 20 weeks old, attempting to stake out additional leg room in cramped quarters. Reuters put it nicely: “It’s a […]

The Tender Touch of God
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The Tender Touch of God

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Parenting
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This week Tripp Curtis, the recently bereaved husband of “Mommy Life” blogger and author Barbara Curtis, posted a short article about his wife that read in part: Barbara told how “seeing my children experience a happy childhood was the next best thing to having one myself.” She wished to “receive that kind of love.… Is […]

St. Barbara, virgin and martyr
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St. Barbara, virgin and martyr

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by on Dec 04, 2012 in Saint of the Day - Ex Form
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ST. BARBARA was brought up a heathen. A tyrannical father, Dioscorus, had kept her jealously secluded in a lonely tower which he had built for the purpose. Here in her forced solitude, she gave herself to prayer and study, and contrived to receive instruction and Baptism by stealth from a Christian priest. Upon discovering his […]

A Trifecta of Dishonesty
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A Trifecta of Dishonesty

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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In the words of Billy Joel’s 1979 hit ballad, “Honesty,” “Honesty is such a lonely word; everyone is so untrue.” How much more true do those words ring today, some three decades later? To wit, I’d like to touch on three examples of rank dishonesty: one spiritual, one intellectual, and one liturgical. Spiritual Dishonesty In […]

First Week of Advent: From the Incarnation to the Parousia
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First Week of Advent: From the Incarnation to the Parousia

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured
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Wednesday, November 21.  I drove eleven hours through the Megalopolis of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.  It was the day before Thanksgiving, the busiest traveling day of the year in the U.S.  Was I crazy?  Maybe, but a daylong drive through stop-and-go traffic was what I wanted to help prepare for Advent.  […]

<em>Liberty, the God that Failed</em>: Interview with the Author, Christopher Ferrara
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Liberty, the God that Failed: Interview with the Author, Christopher Ferrara

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, On Books
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This interview with Christopher Ferrara, Catholic author and founder of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, was conducted by Dr. John C. Rao, November 11, 2012. JR: Let’s begin, appropriately enough, with your title, [Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama] and the […]

“Gender Identity” Debuts in a UN Resolution
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“Gender Identity” Debuts in a UN Resolution

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) rights continue to divide UN member states, but LGBT groups are celebrating a minor victory at the United Nations General Assembly. Last Tuesday the GA adopted the term “gender identity” alongside “sexual orientation” for the first time in one of its resolutions. LGBT rights first gained a normative foothold […]

IVF as Science Fiction
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IVF as Science Fiction

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Featured, Reproductive Technology
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We can all remember reading predictions that at some point mankind will become immortal. Perhaps we have heard that there are techniques afoot that will eliminate disease and make the human being into something superior to himself, thus redefining us as transhuman. This is not science fiction and it is no longer in the realm […]

Letting God Find You
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Letting God Find You

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Health & Fitness, Live in Christ
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Before my feet touched the floor on January 1st, 2012, I offered a simple prayer: Please Lord, before the year is over, find me where you want me to be. Up to that point, I had been suffering from a decades-long chronic condition and although I imagined health in my future, that morning I offered every […]

Poem: "A Diamond or a Coal?"
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Poem: “A Diamond or a Coal?”

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by on Dec 03, 2012 in Poetry
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A Diamond or a Coal? A diamond or a coal? A diamond, if you please: Who cares about a clumsy coal Beneath the summer trees? A diamond or a coal? A coal, sir, if you please: One comes to care about the coal What time the waters freeze. Christina Rossetti