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The Narrow Gate

by Judy Keane May 16, 2013

I think we can all agree that today’s world is filled with a multitude of enticing distractions where everything is available to us in the form of megamalls, megaplexes, massive sports venues, super centers and endless cable TV channels that…

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The Five Most Surprising Names for the Holy Spirit

by Stephen Beale May 16, 2013

In Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, we have two persons who appear to us in radically different forms, or so it often seems.
Christ is God in the flesh nailed to the Cross. He is the God who wept…

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R.I.P., American Family

by Dr. Paul Kengor May 15, 2013

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Liberalism is at it again. This time it’s teaming up with gay activists. With the assistance of emotionally charged slogans like tolerance and diversity—always applied selectively—liberals have set their sights on the American family. And it will…

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Give Us Barabbas

by Fr. Michael P. Orsi May 15, 2013

Here we go again!
In recent years two major Catholic universities, Notre Dame and Georgetown have honored pro-choice politicians at their Commencement Exercises, President Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, respectively. Although the bishops of…

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Two Moms vs. Obama’s Common Core

by Maggie Gallagher May 15, 2013

Indiana has become the first state to retreat from the Common Core standards, as Governor Mike Pence has just signed a bill suspending their implementation.
A great deal has been written and spoken about Common Core, but it is worth…

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Your Cheap Clothing Has a High Price

by Karl D. Stephan May 15, 2013

When the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapsed on April 24, crushing hundreds of workers under a pile of concrete and machinery that used to be an eight-story factory building, it was like lifting a rock in your garden and…

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Relevant Rock: The Inadvertent Catholicism of Jim James

by Dan Hart May 15, 2013

In a February Rolling Stone interview, Jim James, the lead singer and songwriter of the popular roots rock band My Morning Jacket, had this to say when asked if he was religious: “I call myself a recovering Catholic.”
It’s funny,…

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Confronting Gendercide

by Michael Cook May 14, 2013

India and China are not the only countries with lop-sided sex ratios due to sex-selective abortions. Georgia, a former member of the USSR in the Caucasus with a population of about 4.5 million, has a distorted sex ratio at birth…

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Dropping the Benghazi Ball

by Dr. Earl Tilford May 14, 2013

In the 1990s, the U.S. Air Force’s self-descriptor for its capabilities was “Global Reach, Global Power.”  On September 11, 2012, as Americans were being attacked and killed in the Middle East, the global reach of air power was confined to…

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Same Sex Parenting: What Do the Children Say?

by Robert Oscar Lopez May 13, 2013

During the oral arguments about Proposition 8, Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to children being raised by same-sex couples. Since I was one of those children—from ages 2-19, I was raised by a lesbian mother with the help of her partner—I…

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