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For Marriage: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble
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Oh, the irony of it all.  For the past two years, the Republican establishment has been insisting that the only effective way to beat President Obama in 2012 is to set contentious social issues aside and focus like a laser…

Marriage & Family
Hidden Motherhood
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With another Mother’s Day that has come and gone I am filled with mixed emotions. I feel much gratitude and joy for my amazing mother and grandmother who have helped to shape me into the woman I am today. At…

Business
An Economic Sword of Damocles
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The tale of Damocles refers to a mythical courtier to Dionysius, king of Sicily, in the fourth century BC. Damocles flattered the king for his great fortune in being surrounded by such obvious luxury and magnificence. Dionysius offered to switch…

Life Issues
U.K. Funds Forced Sterilizations in India
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The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian newspaper. This news comes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation prepares to co-host a…

Faith
A Survey of Anger
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There is a certain underlying murmur of anger that now pervades modern society. We see this daily in the impatience we routinely experience in people at work, at school, at the grocery store, in the gas station lineup. We see…

Life Issues
“I Found My Embryos on Craigslist”
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“Hey, I got a really good deal on embryos on Craigslist the other day.” 
Hopefully this story from Iowa is not a harbinger of things to come. Two couples, in Chicago and Florida, found their embryos through a Craigslist discussion…

Opinion
The Family Loses A Major Battle
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My colleagues reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empty handed.” With respect, I disagree with this assessment.
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and…

Faith
Sexually Disordered: In Solidarity
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The Church teaches that same-sex actions are sinful.  Stating this fact is almost universally discouraged in public discourse.  Yet this is the very issue that needs to be discussed.  And in order to do so we must start with what’s…

Politics
Reflections on the French Election
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The election of Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande to the presidency of France epitomizes the sorry state of contemporary democracy. By that, I don’t mean to imply that the French people should have voted for the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy. Neither…

Politics
The Antietam of the Culture War
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It took Joe Biden’s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out.
But after Joe told David Gregory of “Meet the Press” he was “absolutely comfortable” with homosexuals marrying, Barack Obama could not maintain his credibility with the cultural…

Marriage & Family
Obama Devolves
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Both Vice-President Joseph Biden and President Barack Obama have said that their positions regarding same-sex marriage have evolved. When you are “evolving,” you should really watch your grammar. Otherwise, people might suspect you are devolving instead.
Take for instance, the…

Books, Crafting Culture
The Weekend Read
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In one of the essays from her collection, Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor cites a story by Caroline Gordon (1895-1981), a Catholic convert and friend of O’Connor’s who is sadly too often neglected when the roll call of great Catholic…

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  1. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
  2. The Sound of Music (1965)
  3. A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  4. The Song of Bernadette (1943)
  5. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  6. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  7. The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
  8. Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
  9. Schindler’s List (1993)
  10. The Bells of St Mary’s (1945
Image of the Father

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My father died five years ago. Although he did almost none of my formal religious education, my dad taught me a lot about God. Most importantly, by the way he devoted himself to being an extraordinary father, he disposed me to know and love my Heavenly Father.
I believe fathers are children’s first image of God. Of course Mom is, too, but in a different way. Whereas Mom introduces children to the immanence of God, Dad in some ways expresses His transcendence, perhaps the first concrete… Read More

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Dear Editor:
Holy Week is upon us. It is a time when we fast with joy, submitting ourselves to spiritual struggles in preparation for the sorrowful Passion and joyful Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus told us that “unless… Read More

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