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Pro-Abortion Activists Throw the First Stone

by Paul V. Esposito January 18, 2012

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. As kids, it was our first-line defense against the inevitable “Jerk!” “Spaz!” “Dope!” or other name that came firing out of someone’s mouth. It still comes in…

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Finding Purpose Beyond the Paycheck

by Shane Kapler January 17, 2012

When a book has endorsements from Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Scott Hahn, Kevin Vost, Marcus Grodi, and Mike Aquilina (to name a few!), a thumbs-up from Shane Kapler is obviously superfluous. But in the spirit of “when has that ever stopped…

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Is Your Shrink Anti-Religion? Here’s Why

by Harold G. Koenig, MD January 17, 2012

In order to give the reader a sense of the environment that I faced in the early 1980s when I was just beginning to explore the relationship between religion and health, it will help to have a little background on…

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Christian Unity and Evangelization: The Boat and the Net

by Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP January 17, 2012

Church leaders from across the denominational spectrum in the United States met recently–prior to the January 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity–in what might justifiably be called an ecumenical summit meeting.
They met to look at whether the various…

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When Will the Dream Become Reality?

by Jerry Costello January 16, 2012

Do you remember all the fussing and furor we went through when someone first suggested that we observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a national holiday? That someone, by the way, was Rep. John Conyers, a…

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Dateline Philippines: Devastation in Their Faces

by Jen Hardy January 16, 2012

Jen Hardy, regional information officer for Asia, is on the ground to document the CRS response to to Tropical Storm Washi (local name “Sendong”), which struck northern Mindanao in the Philippines on December 17.
It’s a struggle to come up…

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A Fuelish Solution

by Gary J. Isbell January 16, 2012

It seems all the talk about peak energy production is a bit premature, as the argument of abruptly declining fossil fuels is fizzling.
Recent discoveries of vast oil reserves in North America have exceed 1.7 trillion barrels, 1.4 trillion in…

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Mitt and the Myth of Inevitability

by Ken Connor January 13, 2012

In politics, as with many competitive enterprises, frontrunners love to promote the myth of inevitability.  Having squeaked out the narrowest of wins in Iowa and now polling favorably in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney is attempting to capitalize on the notion…

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How Big Is Your God?

by Lynn Bifulco January 13, 2012

“How big is my girl?” my father would ask when I was a child. Then he would help me stretch out my arms as wide as I could, saying: “So big!” I knew this was just a game, but I…

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Another Lady of Guadalupe

by Richard Segerstrom January 13, 2012

The statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Extremadura region of western Spain is not to be confused with the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac, Mexico. The statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which was carved…

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