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"Reproductive Rights" and the Brave New United States
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“Reproductive Rights” and the Brave New United States

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by on Jun 13, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured, Reproductive Technology
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When I talk to my fellow Americans about biotechnology, they have this idea that all the bad stuff will happen in places like China and that the horrors of Huxley’s Brave New World will never happen here.  Cloning, human genetic engineering and the like will happen somewhere else, but not in the good ol’ USA. […]

Summer Family Fun and Fitness
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Summer Family Fun and Fitness

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by on Jun 13, 2012 in Featured, Health & Fitness
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Summertime offers the perfect opportunity to get outside as a family and make exercise a fun experience. By taking part in physical activity together, you will be helping your children learn that fitness is about doing what you enjoy and doesn’t have to be a chore or involve a lot of time, expense and fancy […]

The Brutal Reality of China's One Child Policy (Graphic Photo Warning)
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The Brutal Reality of China’s One Child Policy (Graphic Photo Warning)

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by on Jun 13, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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While 37-year old and five month pregnant Cao Ruyi has been allowed to return home due to the global public outcry against family planning officials of Changsha city, a U.S. based human rights group Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is reporting that another young woman, 7-months pregnant with her second child, received a forced abortion in the Ankang City of  Zhenpin County. […]

Vegan Quits Day Job at Slaughterhouse
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Vegan Quits Day Job at Slaughterhouse

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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LifeSite News recently reported that “the Democratic Party is already losing seats to Republicans, as a growing number of elected officials are changing parties over issues like the right to life, the definition of marriage, and the Obama administration’s mandate that religious institutions cover abortion-inducing drugs in their health care plans.” Among the most recent […]

Can You Homeschool a Child with Autism?
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Can You Homeschool a Child with Autism?

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Education, Featured
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In some ways I was fortunate. We received the diagnosis that my son has Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of Autism, after we had already been homeschooling for two years. Therefore, I never had to wonder if I could homeschool a child on the autism spectrum – I was already doing it! A diagnosis merely […]

After-birth Abortion and the Ethics Community’s Descent Into Madness (Part I)
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After-birth Abortion and the Ethics Community’s Descent Into Madness (Part I)

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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In March of this year an article calling for the normalization of infanticide for any reason was published and created something of a stir. In the fluid dynamics of this election year, the malignancy of the article was quickly overtaken by other events, and it is worthy of a revisit in some detail, especially in […]

Orthodox and Catholics Pursuing New Approaches Together
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Orthodox and Catholics Pursuing New Approaches Together

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Featured, Those in Need
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Metropolitan Hilarion, responsible for the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, pointed out the joint tasks of members of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in a world characterized by materialism and consumerism at a meeting on Pentecost with the Executive President of the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). “We must […]

Reflections for Sunday, June 17, 2012
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Reflections for Sunday, June 17, 2012

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Featured, Sunday Reflections
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Reflections for Sunday, June 17, 2012 Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Mark 4;26-34; Ezekiel 17:22-24; Psalm 92:2-3,13-16 2; Corinthians 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34) Trusting in the Lord’s Work in Our Lives “The seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.” (Mark 4:27) When you were a child, you may have been given […]

Tech Talk: My Resistance to a Smartphone
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Tech Talk: My Resistance to a Smartphone

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by on Jun 12, 2012 in Featured, Tips, Tools, Tech
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When I whip my phone out of my pocket, people who know me well are usually surprised. It’s not an iPhone. It’s not an Android. It’s not smart, actually. It’s pretty much a regular phone, the kind your junior high niece is stuck with until she can pay her own data plan. And you know […]

On Bended Knee
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On Bended Knee

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by on Jun 11, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Women
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O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! (Psalm 95: 6) To kneel before God is a blessed thing. We are the only creatures who roam the earth with a free will, and the only ones with the freedom to give homage by kneeling to the One […]

The Eucharist: The Body of Christ?
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The Eucharist: The Body of Christ?

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by on Jun 09, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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The Catholic Church teaches that in the Eucharist, the communion wafer and the altar wine are transformed and really become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.  Have you ever met anyone who has found this Catholic doctrine to be a bit hard to take? If so, you shouldn’t be surprised.  When Jesus spoke about […]

Life in a Wheelchair is Not as Awful as You Might Think
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Life in a Wheelchair is Not as Awful as You Might Think

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by on Jun 08, 2012 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, On Media
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This week the Sundance Channel premiered Push Girls, a new reality series about four women in wheelchairs. All of them have spinal cord injuries at various levels. Like me, three of them were paralyzed from car accidents, one from a ruptured blood clot in her spinal cord. After watching the first episode, I can’t say […]

Movie Review: <i>Men in Black 3 (MIB3)</i>
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Movie Review: Men in Black 3 (MIB3)

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by on Jun 08, 2012 in Featured, On TV and Movies
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Sequels are hard.  “Men in Black 3” is no exception. After an attention-grabbing, keeping-in-the-MIB-mode (and a once-only-ultra-risqué scene) opening, “MIB3” strives in a ho-hum way to maintain the MIB quirky vibe and “odd couple” relationship between Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (a wan-looking Tommy Lee Jones). Each actor does their best with mediocre, […]

A Bad Week for Planned Parenthood
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A Bad Week for Planned Parenthood

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by on Jun 08, 2012 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Women
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Poor Planned Parenthood. Even with unflagging support from the White House, lapdog allegiance from congressional Democrats and fawning coverage from most mainstream media outlets, America’s largest abortion provider cannot help looking ridiculous. The organization’s latest public relations debacle began on May 29, when the youth-led, pro-life activist group Live Action released a video showing a […]

Making a Tough Decision: The Economics of Putting Family First
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Making a Tough Decision: The Economics of Putting Family First

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by on Jun 07, 2012 in Featured, Men
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It was time to make another dreaded phone call telling  my wife that problems had come up and I wouldn’t be coming home the next day as scheduled. I was thousands of miles away, yet I could hear the disappointment in her voice as she tried to be understanding. She was used to this happening, […]

Misbehavior Destroys Importance of Ritual
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Misbehavior Destroys Importance of Ritual

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by on Jun 07, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting
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Cap and gown? Check. Camera, videocamera and cellphone for instantly uploading photos to Facebook? Check. Umbrella to keep grandma from getting wet or overheating in the sun inside the football stadium? Check. Air horn, confetti, posters, noisemakers, beach balls, rubber snakes? Check. Let the commencement exercises commence. Earlier this month, graduating senior Chuck Shriner of […]

Women’s Health
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Women’s Health

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by on Jun 06, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Women
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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is fighting for the mandate in Obamacare designed force all health care plans to provide free (that is without a co-pay) contraception, morning after pills, and sterilization. She insists that this is a battle for women’s health. Those who see this as a question of religious freedom have let this claim pass […]

Rallies Call for Standing Up for Religious Freedom
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Rallies Call for Standing Up for Religious Freedom

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by on Jun 06, 2012 in Columnists, Education, Featured, The Social Order
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When historians one day look back on the rise and fall of the American republic, it won’t only be our habitual deficit spending and lack of financial discipline they blame for our demise, but the deficit of faith and lack of religion in our children’s generation. The beliefs and values that once served as the […]

The Human Body in a "Mad" World
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The Human Body in a “Mad” World

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by on Jun 06, 2012 in Featured, On Media
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Those who are up-to-date on the television series MadMen have an interesting episode to chew on as they await the season finale, but in the limited discussions I’ve followed since it aired, I have yet to see any reference to what I found the most profound point: the reverence due to the human body.   […]

Keeping Faith with Your Grandchildren
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Keeping Faith with Your Grandchildren

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by on Jun 06, 2012 in Featured, Parenting
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“Do you know any songs?” I asked my nearly 3-year-old granddaughter as the two us walked hand-in-hand to a nearby store. “Uh huh,” she answered. So I started “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and she joined in, shouting out the next word whenever I paused. Hmmm . . . “Father, Son, Holy Spirit,” I said, and she […]

Controversial New Guidelines Drafted for UK Doctors
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Controversial New Guidelines Drafted for UK Doctors

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by on Jun 06, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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A draft of new guidelines titled “Personal beliefs and medical practice” issued by the UK’s General Medical Council warns doctors that exercising their conscience rights to not prescribe contraceptives, including the abortifacient morning after pill, as well as not referring for abortion or performing “gender reassignment surgery,” could endanger their license to practice. “Serious or […]

On the Vatican's Norms for Discerning Private Revelation, Part Two
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On the Vatican’s Norms for Discerning Private Revelation, Part Two

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by on Jun 05, 2012 in Featured, History
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For part one, please click here. Overview of Normae S. Congregationis: The original copy of NC comprised a total of four pages in Latin.  It was signed by Francis Cardinal Seper, then Prefect of the CDF.  It was undersigned by Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P., then Secretary of the CDF. The document as a whole provides […]

Legislation Banning Sex Selective Abortion Gains Momentum
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Legislation Banning Sex Selective Abortion Gains Momentum

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by on Jun 05, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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You would think that any piece of legislation that wins a 246-168 majority of the votes of the House of Representatives would be on a fast track to become law. Passing pro-life legislation though, whether it be the earlier ban on partial-birth abortion, or the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PreNDA)–a bill to make it unlawful to […]

The Marriage of the Lamb
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The Marriage of the Lamb

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by on Jun 05, 2012 in Featured, Marriage
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No matter how many times I attend Mass, I still rarely attend with the presence of mind to realize I am attending a marriage ceremony.  This is the most central and important aspect of my Christian life, and it just doesn’t occur to me that this is a wedding taking place. More specifically, the Mass […]