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Subsidizing the Slaughter of the Innocents

by Ken Connor January 16, 2013

During the 2012 election season the American people were subjected to hundreds of campaign ads.  Among these were several geared towards women, and many of these were paid for by Planned Parenthood.  According to Planned Parenthood, Mitt Romney was bad…

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Faith Under Fire: An Unexpected Protest Against Same Sex Marriage

by Gail Finke January 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: Faith Under Fire, Catholic Exchange’s series documenting increased hostilities against the Faith by the State, continues today with some eyebrow-raising observations by the irrepressible Gail Finke on the subject of same-sex marriage… 
Two remarkable protests against redefining marriage…

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Is Obama Shaping A New Majority?

by Pat Buchanan January 15, 2013

In the 20th century, only two presidents shaped new governing coalitions that outlasted them. They were the only two men to appear on five national tickets.
The first was FDR, who rang down the curtain in 1932 on the seven…

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No Comparison? The “You” God Made and Your Social Media Self

by Cate Roberts January 14, 2013

When the first feelings of melancholy surfaced, I wondered if it was because winter had finally managed to find its way south. Then I began to notice a pattern in my days. I would hop online and giggle my way…

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Is the UN Missing the Target On Purpose?

by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. January 11, 2013

A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention within international policy-making institutions.
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2010) …

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The Pope Was Right All Along

by Russell Shaw January 11, 2013

The disruptive results for individuals and society spawned by the revolution in attitudes and behavior regarding sex, marriage, family, and childbearing that erupted a half-century ago have become too obvious to ignore. These things were predictable–in fact, some people actually…

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Pope Benedict on Gay Marriage

by Dr. Paul Kengor January 10, 2013

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“The Catholic Church,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “is the one thing that saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
That is so true. Whatever the latest fad or fashion,…

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Seven Reasons for the Incarnation Besides the Fall

by Stephen Beale January 10, 2013

Did God have to become man? Was such a dramatic divine intervention in history inevitable?
For Catholics, as for all orthodox Christians, this is a central truth of faith and the answer is unequivocally yes: God became man and yet…

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Catholics and Depression

by CWR Staff January 9, 2013

From the Editor: the following was originally published at The Catholic World Report and is used with kind permission.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is the author, with Msgr. John Cihak, STD, of the book, The Catholic Guide to Depression: How…

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Refined by Fire

by Hallie Lord January 4, 2013

If ever there was a romance that started off with a bang it was ours. It was love at first sight—the kind of love affair that many have trouble believing exists until they find themselves swept up in one of…

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