Health & Spirituality

Rumor Has It: the Poison of Gossip

by Rebecca Smith February 5, 2013

The habit of gossiping is one that is entirely destructive, and can be likened to an addiction to smoking cigarettes, easy to catch and difficult to get rid of. Both gossiping and smoking provide opportunities to superficially meet and bond…

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40 Ways to Get More Out of Lent

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. February 4, 2013

This, of course, is not an exhaustive list of Lenten ideas.  But it’s a start!  Many of the resources mention here are available on our website at www.crossroadsinitiative.com or can be found by visiting our links page.
1          Take 30…

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A New Look At An Old Path to Holiness

by Stephen Beale January 22, 2013

Corporal mortification is one of those things that many people think has been neatly swept into the dustbin of Church history as just another unsavory relic of medieval Christendom.
 
That is because mortification has to do with pain for…

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Theology of the Body vs 50 Shades of Grey

by Judy Keane January 21, 2013

With fan-fiction origins, E.L. James book, 50 Shades of Grey, has officially become the most widely sold book in Britain – ever. The book, the first in a trilogy, includes explicit scenes and heavy doses of bondage, dominance and sadism.  …

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Insurers Raising Rates by Double Digits

by Keith Koffler January 8, 2013

It looks like Obamacare’s chickens are coming home to roost.
According to the New York Times, not normally known as a bastion of right-wing anti-Obama extremism, health insurers are slapping consumers with double digit percentage increases in rates:
Health insurance …

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Unanimous: “Morning After Pill” Prescriptions for Teens In Advance

by Jared Yee December 3, 2012

On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called on pediatricians in the US to provide advice to all adolescent patients about emergency contraception, and to prescribe it to girls under 17 in advance. US policy bans sales of the…

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Medicine’s Dance With Death

by Farr Curlin November 27, 2012

In The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, physician-philosopher Jeffrey Bishop argues that modern medicine has adopted a “metaphysics of efficient causation”–a focus on the immediate cause of things that ignores their ultimate purpose. As a…

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What’s Next for Christopher West?

by Shane Kapler November 15, 2012

It has been over a decade since I first read Christopher West’s Good News About Sex and Marriage and then made it required reading for the RCIA program I coordinated.  I couldn’t help myself.  If there was one area in…

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A Review of Skyfall

by Ronan Wright November 6, 2012

Skyfall Directed by Sam Mendes      Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judy Dench, Ralph Fiennes     
American Beauty director Sam Mendes takes on the unenviable task of reorienting the iconic Bond series. The modern-day Bond has the politics of a new world…

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Obama’s HHS Grooms Children for Sex

by Matt Barber October 30, 2012

(Warning: The following contains disturbing information of a sexual nature.)
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
My dear friend and colleague Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor at…

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