Gay Activists Bully D.C. Priests

November 21st, 2009 by Catholic League

Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses a serious issue involving gay activists in the District of Columbia:

A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this…

 

Rejection of Washington DC Marriage Referendum Challenged With Legal Suit

November 21st, 2009 by LifeSite News

On Wednesday attorneys representing Christian Bishop Harry Jackson and seven other D.C. voters filed a suit against a decision by the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, which ruled that the Marriage Initiative of 2009, a referendum that would have…

 

59 Bishops Contributed Financially to Maine Bishop’s Effort to Oppose Maine Same-Sex “Marriage” Law

November 21st, 2009 by Peter J. Smith

At least fifty-nine US Catholic bishops gave financial support - either personally or through their dioceses and diocesan offices - to the battle to defeat the legalization of same-sex “marriage” and for that the Catholic bishop of Maine is grateful.…

 

Obama Evades Questioning on Stupak Amendment in FOX Interview

November 21st, 2009 by Kathleen Gilbert

In a rare interview with FOX news [Wednesday] night, President Obama dodged point-blank questioning concerning his position on the Stupak amendment in the health care bill.

The Stupak amendment, which was unexpectedly included in the final version of the House bill,…

 

CCHD Head Calls Critics “Outrageous,” but Makes Vague Admission of Need for Reform

November 20th, 2009 by Peter J. Smith

A US Catholic bishop who has oversight of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), on Tuesday blasted what he said were "outrageous" allegations that the bishops’ charitable-arm funds pro-abortion and anti-family organizations. He charged that some such claims were…

 

Book Review: Thomas Cromwell and House of Treason

November 20th, 2009 by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.

Thomas Cromwell is infamous for his role in the dissolution of the monasteries and other religious houses in England during the reign of King Henry VIII. He had worked as an assistant to Cardinal Wolsey, chancellor of England and the main…

 

The Poor Will Always Be With Us

November 20th, 2009 by Effie Caldarola

Did the woman who just passed me on the sidewalk really pick up a discarded cigarette butt from the waste bin and move on down the street?

As the woman walked down the sidewalk, I realized she was a bit disheveled.…

 

Pro-Life Groups Oppose Nevada Personhood Amendment

November 20th, 2009 by Thaddeus M. Baklinski

A group of Nevada’s pro-life organizations have come out in opposition to the Personhood Amendment initiative launched in October by Richard Ziser, a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate and campaign manager of Personhood Nevada.

The initiative petition, filed October 21 with…

 

Seeing Moral Grays In 9/11

November 20th, 2009 by Media Research Center

Picking up the Sunday paper on November 15 could make a reader a little airsick – even while standing in the driveway. The Washington Post "news analysis" on the front page carried the headline "9/11 trial could become a parable…

 

Organ Music

November 20th, 2009 by Tom Purcell

We got it in the early ’70s: a Kimball organ that sat in our living room for 20 years or more.

It had single buttons that played whole chords. Other buttons played cymbals, marimba and other rhythmic beats.

I spent hours playing…

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