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Concluding Commentary On Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments (part 5)
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Concluding Commentary On Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments (part 5)

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by on Jan 24, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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Links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Last month, the Mount Vernon Assembly met at George Washington’s home in Virginia to begin the planning process for an Article V Convention.  Attending were some 100 legislators from 32 States.  Mark R. Levin’s bestselling book, The Liberty Amendments (Simon & Schuster, 2013), inspired many […]

Weekly Wits: 1/23/14
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Weekly Wits: 1/23/14

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Featured, Humor
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Desiring Heaven Where Love is Complete
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Desiring Heaven Where Love is Complete

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Featured, Live in Christ
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I remember sitting with my father in a boat on the middle of a still prairie lake. It was August of 1969 and I was sixteen years old. A cool mist rose from the surface of the lake that August morning. Fishing was good just after sunrise and so there we sat still half-asleep, casting our […]

When a Governor Needs to Resign
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When a Governor Needs to Resign

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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In a speech reported in the Times Union this past Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stated unequivocally that anyone who is pro-life, anti-homosexualist, and in favor of an undiluted Second Amendment has no place in the State of New York. From the Times Union: You have a schism within the Republican Party. … They’re searching […]

More Media Stem Cell Confusion
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More Media Stem Cell Confusion

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by on Jan 23, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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After my many years of writing about stem cell research, I am still shocked when the media get the facts horribly wrong. I guess that comes from the assumption that to report the news, one must actually understand the subject matter. After last month’s confusion over whether research that produced mini-kidneys in the lab used […]

Reflecitons for Sunday, January 26th, 2014
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Reflecitons for Sunday, January 26th, 2014

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Isaiah 8:23–9:3; Psalm 27:1,4,13-14; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13,17; Matthew 4:12-23) The Power of Forgivness in Healing Divisions I urge … that you be united. (1 Corinthians 1:10)  The Corinthian church was out of control. Some members were visiting prostitutes. One was even having an affair with his stepmother! […]

A Shifting Tide: Pro-Life Laws and the March for Life
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A Shifting Tide: Pro-Life Laws and the March for Life

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Wednesday, January 22 will mark the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade: a 7 to 2 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that found a woman’s right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Justices’ decision invalidated all state laws restricting access to abortion […]

<em>Lone Survivor</em>: A Tale of Horror and Heroism
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Lone Survivor: A Tale of Horror and Heroism

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Featured, On TV and Movies
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To the extent that art really does imitate life, every American owes it to themselves and to our troops to see the blockbuster film, Lone Survivor. Panned by cynical elites as “shameless war-porn,” in reality this movie portrays the heroism and sacrifice of four members of Seal Team 10 during a mission gone bad in the mountains of […]

A Generation Lucky to be Alive
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A Generation Lucky to be Alive

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Today, hundreds of thousands of pro-life people are gathered in Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life, commemorating the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that struck down existing state laws protecting unborn children.  For those who have been on the March or seen footage of it on EWTN (you can hardly see […]

United in Heart and Soul to Our Beloved
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United in Heart and Soul to Our Beloved

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by on Jan 22, 2014 in Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Marriage, MyChurchParish.com, Vocations
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Aimed at greater intimacy than the one-flesh union, married love “leads to forming one heart and soul,” states the Catechism. (Section 1643). How do married couples become one in heart and soul, especially when the demands of daily life keep getting in the way? Becoming One Heart Talk to your beloved about what’s in your […]

On Eucharistic Existence
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On Eucharistic Existence

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by on Jan 21, 2014 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ
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The death of Jesus Christ—the liturgy par excellence, the supreme oblation and fulfillment of Israel’s sacrificial system—occurred outside the holy precincts of the temple, thus demolishing the rigid dichotomy between the sacred and the profane. The Christian knows no “temple” but his body, wherein the Spirit dwells individually; and the church, wherein the Spirit dwells […]

John Paul II, Champion of Marriage
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John Paul II, Champion of Marriage

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by on Jan 21, 2014 in Featured, Marriage
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All of Rome is sold out for the end of this April.  St. Peter’s Square, and every road around it will be jammed with people on Mercy Sunday (April 27, 2014).  On that day, Pope Francis will announce the canonization of the most beloved Pope of modern times, Pope John Paul II. Never has there […]

40 Days of Hope
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40 Days of Hope

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by on Jan 21, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The pro-life initiative 40 Days for Life can boast a lot of numbers over six years: 600,000 participants in over 500 cities; 8,245 lives saved, 44 clinics closed and 88 clinic workers who left their employers. But numbers can’t quantify the kind of impact the apostolate has had on so many lives and the renewed […]

Media Wakes Up: Reports Pope Benedict Removed Nearly 400 Priests
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Media Wakes Up: Reports Pope Benedict Removed Nearly 400 Priests

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by on Jan 21, 2014 in Featured, On Media
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After eight years of continual accusations of doing “nothing” by mainstream media, it has been revealed that Benedict XVI was busy throughout his pontificate removing priests from office who were found guilty of sexual abuse. From 2011-2012, Pope Benedict “defrocked” or laicised 384 priests, more than twice the 171 removed from the clerical state in […]

Why Priests Should Celebrate the Extraordinary Form
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Why Priests Should Celebrate the Extraordinary Form

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by on Jan 21, 2014 in Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, MyChurchParish.com, Vocations
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One of the things I enjoy the most about my job here is interacting with priests.  It’s really humbling to know that some of the guys who instruct the souls from the pulpit every Sunday work with me on publishing their next column, or even read my columns and take some of the advice.  Lay […]

Talking About Abortion
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Talking About Abortion

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by on Jan 20, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Shortly after the most recent study indicating that women who are seeking abortions are not moved to change their minds after they view an ultrasound, Slate’s Katy Waldman weighed in with her view. Waldman writes that “anti-choicers”—people like me—believe that “when a woman glimpses her little bean during a sonogram, her maternal instinct awakens and prompts her to carry the pregnancy to […]

Appeal from Syria's Catholic Leader Ahead of Geneva Peace Conference
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Appeal from Syria’s Catholic Leader Ahead of Geneva Peace Conference

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by on Jan 20, 2014 in Featured, International Issues, Those in Need
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The leader of Catholics in Syria has issued an urgent appeal to the faithful in Syria, and people throughout the world, to pray for the success of this week’s Geneva II peace conference to be held in Montreux, Switzerland. Damascus-based Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III has called on every Syrian Catholic, whatever their circumstances, […]

Does God Want You to Have It All?
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Does God Want You to Have It All?

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by on Jan 20, 2014 in Featured, Marriage, On the Job, Parenting, Women
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Can women have careers without neglecting their children? Can women have children without neglecting their intellectual gifts? In short, can women have it all? My mother taught me that the answer was no. She quoted former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fondly and often: “A woman can have a great career and a great marriage. […]

<em>Gimme Shelter</em>, Based on a True Pro-life Story
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Gimme Shelter, Based on a True Pro-life Story

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by on Jan 20, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, On TV and Movies
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One of the stupidest things I ever said was to two street urchins in Dublin, Ireland. My friend Margie and I were college students headed back to our bed and breakfast after a night on the town. The two bedraggled boys of around 8 or 9 years of age had asked us for candy. “Go […]

The Witness of John the Baptist
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The Witness of John the Baptist

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by on Jan 19, 2014 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Sunday Reflections
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John the Baptist stood waist deep in the Jordan River.  Thousands of faith-seekers came to be baptized by John for the forgiveness of sins.  John believed that baptizing was his calling in life, the reason that he was born; indeed it was.  Then one day Jesus arrived and the life and mission of the Baptist took on a […]

The Best Dressed Man
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The Best Dressed Man

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by on Jan 18, 2014 in Featured, On Media
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The U.S. edition of the men’s style and lifestyle magazine Esquire recently named Pope Francis as its Best Dressed Man of 2013. The magazine explained that the decision was “unconventional,” but insisted that the way that the pope dresses has “signaled a new era (and for many, renewed hope) for the Catholic Church.” Mark-Evan Blackman, […]

Ecumenical Return to Home Sweet Rome
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Ecumenical Return to Home Sweet Rome

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by on Jan 18, 2014 in Evangelization, Featured
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I attended an ecumenical prayer service for Christian unity in 2011. A Baptist pastor, United Church of Christ pastor, United Methodist pastor and our parish priest took part. As we prayed together, my heart went out to the Protestant ministers. I see them, and I think of my dad, the Protestant minister. Simultaneously, I find […]

Behold the Lamb of God
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Behold the Lamb of God

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by on Jan 18, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Sunday Reflections
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The Protestant Church is all about the Bible; the Catholic Church is all about the Sacraments.  Right? Not exactly.  When it comes to personal Bible reading, Protestants often put Catholics to shame.  But as far as Sunday worship goes, it is hard to find a more biblical service than the Mass. The readings are awesome […]

New Mexico Court Ruling on Assisting Suicide Endangers the Vulnerable
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New Mexico Court Ruling on Assisting Suicide Endangers the Vulnerable

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by on Jan 17, 2014 in Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Law & Justice
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On Monday, Judge Nan G. Nash of the Second District Court in Albuquerque struck the decades-old New Mexico law which protected the state’s citizens from assisted suicide. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of New Mexico and Compassion & Choices, Judge Nash concluded that that killing a terminally ill patient with that person’s […]