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Christian University Joins Monks in Fight Against Fed's Contraception Mandate
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Christian University Joins Monks in Fight Against Fed’s Contraception Mandate

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Last month, Colorado Christian University (CCU) became the first interdenominational Christian college to challenge in federal court a new “Affordable Care Act” (aka “Obamacare”) mandate for abortifacients (drugs which induce abortions). Colorado Christian joins the monks at Belmont Abbey College pushing back against government intrusion into personal religious convictions that is unprecedented in the health […]

The World’s Worst and Best Ideas
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The World’s Worst and Best Ideas

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by on Dec 26, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ
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As a writer, I find that my thoughts quickly turn into articles in my head. A recent at-rest thought was:  What are the worst ideas in the world? High heels were my first thought. Heels prove that vanity lacks wisdom. Feet are for walking; high heels are anti-walking so regardless of what’s in your shoe […]

Medical Journal Says Nuns Should Use <em>Oral Contraceptives</em> for Cancer Prevention
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Medical Journal Says Nuns Should Use Oral Contraceptives for Cancer Prevention

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by on Dec 19, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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On December 8, the Solemn Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the British medical journal, The Lancet, published a most puzzling commentary, in which a clarion call is issued for the Catholic Church to provide all nuns with oral contraceptives in order to prevent cancer. Australian researchers Kara Britt and Roger Short make their recommendation based on the […]

A Shocking Dose of Sanity from the HHS
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A Shocking Dose of Sanity from the HHS

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by on Dec 08, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Plan B (also known as the morning-after pill) was approved by the FDA at the end of the Clinton administration in 1999. Since 2009, it has been available behind the pharmacy counter without prescription for women 17 years of age and older.  This week, the FDA considered a request from Plan B manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals […]

Is Righteousness in Government Possible?
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Is Righteousness in Government Possible?

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by on Dec 06, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Righteous: acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin – according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is the exemplification of a justice The fundamental principle of justice—in law, in governing, in treating all peoples with equity—is the cornerstone of a humane society. It is important to understand […]

Catholic College Would Shut Down Before Submitting to Fed's Contraceptive Mandate
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Catholic College Would Shut Down Before Submitting to Fed’s Contraceptive Mandate

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by on Nov 25, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The president of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina says they would rather close their doors than submit to a mandate by the Obama administration that threatens to force Catholic institutions to cover abortifacient drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives in their health plans. “I believe we would go there,” said Dr. William Thierfelder, according to the […]

Cardinal Burke: Attacks on Unborn are Rooted in ‘Contraceptive Mentality’
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Cardinal Burke: Attacks on Unborn are Rooted in ‘Contraceptive Mentality’

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by on Nov 23, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of America’s highest ranking Catholic prelates, urged pro-life advocates last month to confront an “erroneous view of human sexuality” that robs the sexual act of its life-giving purpose. “The attack on the innocent and defenceless life of the unborn has its origin in an erroneous view of human sexuality, which attempts […]

Jewish Restaurants Don’t Serve Pork
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Jewish Restaurants Don’t Serve Pork

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by on Nov 22, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Step into a kosher restaurant and skim the menu looking for pork chops: you won’t find any. Practicing Jews don’t eat pork, they don’t sell pork, and no one expects them to pay for pork. Pork goes against their faith, and they don’t do pork. In much the same way, faithful Catholics don’t do contraception, […]

A Lesson on Birth Control from… Moses?
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A Lesson on Birth Control from… Moses?

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by on Sep 05, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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I recently renewed a friendship with a long-lost high school friend on Facebook and was surprised by her rather liberal views on politics and religion.  After all, we had both attended a Catholic high school, although she is Episcopalian.  At first, I thought that perhaps I should move on as our world views were so […]

AIDS and Population Control: Increasing Women's Risk
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AIDS and Population Control: Increasing Women’s Risk

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by on Aug 02, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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with Jennifer I Kimball, Be.L. Thirty years after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported the first US case of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the disease continues to stretch its shroud of death across the world. This, despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in the development of vaccines, spent on anti-retroviral […]

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Contraception: The Reason Catholics Have Abandoned Confession

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by on Mar 24, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Live in Christ
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After the death of Dr. Bernard Nathanson last February, we were reminded that somebody once asked him why he became a Catholic. Because, said Dr. Nathanson, (who’d been a leader in the movement to legalize abortion and performed or presided over many thousands of abortions, then seen the light and become ardently prolife) no other […]