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The Catholic Woman Voter

by Cheryl Dickow September 20, 2012

“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That is…

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Fr. Broom’s Recipe for Beating Greed

by Fr. Ed Broom September 19, 2012

Erich Fromm, a modern psychologist coined this immortal maxim: “If you are what you are and you lose what you have, who are you?”   The greatest rock n’ roll group ever, The Beatles, composed a song, “Money can’t buy me…

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Why California’s Three-Parent Law Was Inevitable

by Jennifer Morse September 19, 2012

Can a child have three parents? If California State Senator Mark Leno has his way, children in California will be able to have three legal parents. Before we dismiss SB 1476 as another example of California Weird, we had best…

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Which Party Is Best for a Faithful Catholic?

by Robert Hutchinson September 19, 2012

The word “politics” is derived from the word “poly,” meaning “many,” and the word “ticks,” meaning “blood sucking parasites.”
– Larry Hardiman
What’s a peaceful, freedom-loving, family-oriented, hard-working Catholic guy to do with the current state of U.S. politics?
For…

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The Pope and Lebanon

by Michael Cook September 19, 2012

It seemed like a scene straight from the playbook for Arab Spring demonstrations: chador-clad women carrying placards, school children in neatly pressed uniforms with badges of Ayatollah Khomeini waving flags, muftis making speeches. But this was Lebanon, and the Shi’ites…

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The Irreconcilable Conflict

by Pat Buchanan September 18, 2012

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
“Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”
Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the…

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Relevant Rock: A Review of Beach House’s Bloom

by Dan Hart September 18, 2012

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first installment of Relevant Rock, a new series of insightful reviews of rock music releases for those Catholic Exchange readers who are discerning fans of the genre. Yes, we all know that the world of…

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Desperate Times Call for the Saint of Desperate Cases

by Judy Keane September 18, 2012

There is perhaps no one among us, particularly at this point in our nation’s history, who is not facing a crisis on some level.  Maybe yours is of a financial nature.  Maybe your home is in foreclosure or you are…

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A New First for Belgium: Prisoner Euthanasia

by Michael Cook September 18, 2012

For the first time, a Belgian prisoner has been euthanized. A man identified as Frank V.D.B, who had spent 20 years in prison for two murders and rapes, died recently. The date is not clear from media reports, but it…

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Set the Stage for the Year of Faith

by Denise Bossert September 17, 2012

In the early 1990s, my sister lived in New Zealand and worked for a traveling science roadshow. We talked on the phone rarely. It was too expensive, and the voice delay on oversea phone calls was really frustrating. My sister…

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