2-12-12 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There was a sharp rebuke Wednesday from Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan that put even more pressure on the president to calm a widening election year uproar. The issue at hand was the president’s insistence that Catholic institutions provide free birth control to their employees. Dolan came to the South Bronx to [...]
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The Shroud of Turin
Dec 27
Dec. 2011 – No scientific explanation for Shroud of Turin, scientists conclude A new study on the Shroud of Turin has concluded that there is no scientific explanation for the image that appears on the cloth. After 5 years of experiments, using different methods of coloring linen, Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and [...]
A Life at Conception Act
Nov 30
National prolife alliance Senator Roger Wicker: roger.wicker@nationalprolifealliance A Life at Conception Act declares unborn children “persons” as defined by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, entitled to legal protection. This is the one thing the Supreme Court admitted in Roe v. Wade that would cause the case for legal abortion to “collapse.” When the Supreme [...]
Exploring Four Myths About the Crusades By: Msgr. Charles Pope http://blog.adw.org/2011/10/exploring-four-myths-about-the-crusades/ Back in Seminary I remember a Church History instructor warning us not to be “too defensive” of the Church when others point to our shortcomings. He said that the Church is so big and so old, that just about anything you can say probably [...]
Religious Liberty in the US on Its Way Out?
Nov 30
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Freedom of Conscience Faces Increased Conflict in America By Father John Flynn, LC ROME, NOV. 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The sense of religious liberty is being lost in America, warned Archbishop José H. Gomez in a recent article. Writing in the On the Square section of the Web site of the magazine First Things, his Oct. [...]