At all. Church-state issues derail state funding to help repair/restore California missions: "The problem essentially was that it would have authorized state taxpayer funds for churches with ongoing services, violating the church-state ethic that has been practiced in the U.S. for centuries," said Jim Evans, a spokesman for state Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana), the…

aka…my son. Scheduled to fly out of Heathrow the day the bomb plots were revealed and the whole place was sent into turmoil. Back home in Blacksburg, he goes to work on campus and finds…the place shut down because of an escaped convict. (Talk about making wretched life choices – the fellow was awaiting trial…

An AP story about new efforts to extend the outreach of Crisis Pregnancy Centers into inner cities Now the two largest networks — Care Net and Heartbeat International — have launched initiatives to change that equation. Their sometimes awkward efforts rely on unlikely alliances, as an anti-abortion movement led mostly by conservative, white Republicans interacts…

Coming in October: Fr Chalerm Kitmongkhol explained the logo selected for the AMC that depicts a map of Asia surmounted by a stylized cross and dove: “The map of Asia represents all of us; the cross symbolizes Jesus Christ; the dove the Holy Spirit. The overall meaning is that Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit,…

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