Archive for January, 2013

House Attempts to Use New Rules to Prevent IPAB from Rationing Care
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House Attempts to Use New Rules to Prevent IPAB from Rationing Care

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by on Jan 12, 2013 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Government & Politics
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Late last week, House Republicans passed a package of rules that will guide the next (113th) Congress. Contained within these rules was a simple provision stating that “[The] Independent Payment Advisory Board … shall not apply in the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.” The Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, has remained one of the most […]

Love, Justice, and the Dying
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Love, Justice, and the Dying

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Government & Politics
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With the passage of each year it appears that more and more Americans are being served a platter of nuanced messages regarding how one is to care for a dying loved one. It is as though death could somehow be made more palatable for those involved. The truth is that death is inevitable; nobody will […]

Bourgeois Receives His Marching Orders
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Bourgeois Receives His Marching Orders

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Featured, Vocations
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The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) reports the former Reverend Roy Bourgeois has been formally notified of his dismissal from his religious community and the priesthood. Bourgeois is a vocal proponent of women being ordained priests.  In 2008, he participated in the simulation of the Sacrament of Holy Orders involving a woman.  Shortly thereafter, says the […]

The Jews and the “New Pentecost”
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The Jews and the “New Pentecost”

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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A peculiar thing happened on the way to the present day from Pentecost: the Church suddenly stopped calling the Jews to conversion. Sure, if we are being honest, we must admit that the Church is now reticent to explicitly call anyone who dwells beyond the fold into the one true religion, but in the decades […]

Gender Theory
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Gender Theory

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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This past December Pope Benedict XVI warned about the dangers of Gender Theory. Many people may be unaware of the various theories of gender and how each of them is in its own way an attack on reality. Part of the problem is that the theories are not logically consistent, and contradict one another. While the theories […]

Weekly Wits
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Weekly Wits 1/11/13

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Humor
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The Pewsitter's Guide to Parish Renewal
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The Pewsitter’s Guide to Parish Renewal

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Education, Featured, Live in Christ
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Recently on Facebook, I came across a rather heated discussion about Vacation Bible School (VBS), summertime faith formation programs hosted by many parishes across the United States. These parishes are taking a cue from other Christian communities by offering this kind of special outreach – and at times are even using programs produced by evangelical […]

Secular Second Thoughts on Sexual the Revolution
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Secular Second Thoughts on Sexual the Revolution

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage, Reproductive Technology, The Social Order
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The disruptive results for individuals and society spawned by the revolution in attitudes and behavior regarding sex, marriage, family, and childbearing that erupted a half-century ago have become too obvious to ignore. These things were predictable–in fact, some people actually predicted them from the start–but by now their impact has grown so painfully apparent that […]

Poem: "I am the Seed..."
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Poem: “I am the Seed…”

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by on Jan 11, 2013 in Poetry
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I am the Seed… I am the seed that fell among the stones, Heedless sowers, yet a stem I grew, A twig, a leaf, and then stood up alone – Child of wastelands, growing I was new I was a seed among the brambles bruised, A tangled shade laced-up above my head, What lived beneath […]

Hunting and Pecking is a poor way to type.
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No-Look Typing: Put All Your Brain Power on the Subject

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by on Jan 10, 2013 in Business & Work, Featured, Tips, Tools, Tech
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I write copy for commercial clients to help them make more sales from key web pages. My process always includes writing a detailed creative brief with my clients before starting a project. I debrief both owners and sales staffers. But no matter how deep my brief goes, I still need to ask my clients questions […]

New Title X Amendment Would Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
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New Title X Amendment Would Cut Planned Parenthood Funding

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by on Jan 10, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the U.S., performing a third of a million abortions each year. It treats babies like toxic waste. It should be defunded, once and for all. According to their annual report abortions took up the vast majority of their pregnancy services and for every adoption referral, they performed 145 abortions. […]

Five Steps to Take This Year to Become a Better Parent
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Five Steps to Take This Year to Become a Better Parent

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by on Jan 10, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting
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This year, rather than making resolutions to lose weight, read more books and floss for more than just the few weeks after a dental cleaning, America’s mothers and fathers should resolve to do better to raise our next generation of citizens. The result? A resurgence of skilled and solid parenting could be the key to […]

Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence
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Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing that dramatic improvements in maternal health worldwide have been achieved without the liberalization of laws restricting abortion.  In the November issue of the UK-based journal Reproductive Health Matters, two reports […]

Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right
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Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, History
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Imagine you are the pope. The previous half-century has seen the rise of many radical political movements and systems of thought hostile to the Church. Major societal upheaval is well underway, disrupting the basic order of civilization that had persisted for centuries. The territory that had for a millennium been politically controlled by your predecessors has […]

Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortion Numbers, Profit
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Planned Parenthood Sets New Record for Abortion Numbers, Profit

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Planned Parenthood achieved record numbers of abortions and posted record profit levels in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, according to a report from the Planned Parenthood watchdog organization Life Decisions International (LDI). “For decades now, Planned Parenthood has operated the most proficient killing machine in the United States,” said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of LDI, […]

Reflections for Sunday, January 13, 2013
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Reflections for Sunday, January 13, 2013

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, Sunday Reflections
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The Baptism of the Lord Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Isaiah 42:1-4,6-7; Psalm 29:1-4, 9-10; Acts 10:34-38; Luke 3:15-16,21-22) Knowing and Experiencing God the Father’s Love for You You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased. (Luke 3:22) Last year, before the London summer Olympics, the 1981 film Chariots […]

John B. Tabb - Priest-Poet
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Tabb’s Poetry II

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Featured, Poetry
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Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Men Without Chests, or, What C. S. Lewis Made Me Think About
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Men Without Chests, or, What C. S. Lewis Made Me Think About

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ, Parenting
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“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” ~ C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man Sometimes you do your best and things don’t go right. That’s parenthood in a nutshell, I suppose, even when it’s done properly. […]

Ferial Day
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Ferial Day

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Saint of the Day
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<em>Les Mis</em>: Movie Review
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Les Mis: Movie Review

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by on Jan 08, 2013 in Featured, On TV and Movies
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The musical Les Miserables begins and ends with the sung words “Look down!” That is, look down at the suffering, the poor, those who are told to look down, those who don’t dare lift their eyes to dream. There is a feeling of the socially-conscious Dickens’ work to Les Mis. The nemeses are introduced early: […]

Human Rights or Human Wrongs?
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Human Rights or Human Wrongs?

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by on Jan 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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This past year has witnessed an escalation in the redefining of human rights. For example, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) stated in its Annual Report that contraception access is a “universal human right.” Implying that the use of contraception improves the overall health and financial status of women, the UN report fails to point out the deleterious effects that […]

Al Gore - Current TV
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Al Gore Profits from the Stealth Jihad

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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Let’s call it Al Goreera.  That seems a fitting title for the new network that former Vice President Al Gore is launching with the jihadists’ favorite television outlet: Al Jazeera.  The effect will be to create vast new opportunities for our enemies to propagandize the American people, a key ingredient of their “civilization jihad” against […]

Federal Stem Cell Research Funding: Why You Need to Know About the Dickey Amendment
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Federal Stem Cell Research Funding: Why You Need to Know About the Dickey Amendment

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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In an attempt to stop the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, two researchers sued the Obama Administration saying that the administration’s funding of research that requires the destruction of a human embryo violates the Dickey Amendment. Unfortunately, while a lower court agreed that using tax-payer money to fund embryonic stem cell research is […]

Why Gun Control is Not the Answer
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Why Gun Control is Not the Answer

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by on Jan 07, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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In 2012 America saw some of the worst mass shootings in the history of the country — the massacre at Oikos University in Oakland, California, the tragic shooting in an Aurora, Colorado theatre, the more recent heartbreaking incident in Newtown, Connecticut, and subsequent string of shootings which have erupted since. Understandably, people are asking questions […]