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Discounting Parents’ Rights

by Ken Connor March 20, 2013

For people of faith in America, the Obama administration’s birth control mandate represents an unprecedented assault on religious conscience. It seems that the President and his surrogates have little appreciation for the role that faith plays in the lives of…

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A Retreat for Priests: Peace in His Presence

by Judith Costello March 20, 2013

Priests are on call every hour of every day. Perhaps their vocations were a bit easier when the world looked up to priests; but in today’s world, they experience increasing prejudice, hostility, and attacks.
“So why not recommend a no-cost…

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Backwash in the Chalice?

by Scott Smith March 19, 2013

One of the sweetest ladies I know asked me a question the other day that had been bothering her for a very long time. It was one of those questions that you don’t exactly know how to ask—much less, who…

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To Walk, To Build, To Witness, Always with the Cross

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet March 19, 2013

This early in the papacy of Pope Francis, every tiny detail, every response, every move is fodder for analysis and discussion, as professional and amateur pundits alike tell us what every turn of phrase or newly emerging biographical detail will…

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Defending Benedict

by Jenny Uebbing March 19, 2013

This morning I was feeling pretty close to a native here in my new land. Eschewing a lukewarm/cold shower for a spritz of perfume and a leopard-print scarf, I left my 2 little terrors in the capable hands of my…

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Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace

by Rebecca Smith March 18, 2013

There is a tendency in human nature and especially in our society today to make everything selfish, to focus inward on the all-important “me,” while overlooking the way our behavior and attitudes affect those around us. It is so easy…

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Medicare: Did You Really Pay for That?

by Dr. Mark Hendrickson March 18, 2013

Last summer, Barack Obama riled a lot of entrepreneurs when he got carried away at a campaign event and told any American who had built up a successful enterprise, “you didn’t build that.” An even greater backlash awaits any politician…

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Hindus Take Revenge Against Muslims

by Michael Cook March 18, 2013

One of the most easily grasped ethical obligations of a doctor is not to incite people to mass murder. An Indian gynaecologist who ran a maternity home in Gujarat has joined a select group of medicos who have had a …

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Pope Francis: Against the West?

by Pat Buchanan March 18, 2013

“The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith,” wrote Hilaire Belloc after that bloodbath we call World War I. “Either Europe will return to the Faith or she will perish.”
By 1938, Belloc concluded Christian Europe was done:
“The…

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Pope Francis’ First Homily

by CE Editor March 15, 2013

In these three readings I see that there is something in common: it is movement. In the first reading, movement is the journey [itself]; in the second reading, movement is in the up-building of the Church. In the third, in…

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