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There was Lucy Killea, now 81 and reflective. She had spoken out for abortion rights in a television campaign ad for a state Senate race, taking a stand that Maher said was “in complete contradiction to the moral teaching of the Catholic Church.” “Consequently,” Maher wrote to her in a letter, “I have no other…

Phoenix on September 24. In addition, I’m booked to speak at the Catholic Library Association meeting (in association with the NCEA) in Philly in 2005 and the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership in Louisville the next week. (both right after Easter) I’ll post more details on all of these extravaganzas in an organized fashion as…

Maybe it was in the article I posted earlier, and I just read too fast….but the ALL ad campaign costs half a million bucks. What a waste of money. I’m sorry, but this ticks me off. ALL does good work and sponsors some interesting and creative initiatives (Rock for Life, etc.) that are really beyond…

As usual, from After Abortion (scroll down a bit) I never was publicly pro-choice, but I sure did keep my mouth shut out of fear if the topic ever came up. I never cared if a politician I voted for supported abortion. I tacitly supported abortion because I thought, “How could I ever come out…

Well, De-Coding seems to be the best-selling of the genre over at Amazon, and still hanging in there over at BN, although we’re out of the top 100. I suspect that’s because the second printing hasn’t yet made it to stores (and I’ve heard that the BN ranking is a combination of online and store…

Maybe we should be grateful that Madonna didn’t choose to immerse herself in Catholicism, if this is the kind of perversion of Kabbalistic Judaism she’s gone for and given millions of dollars in support of. It’s the LA Kabbalah Center, and The New Republic has a cover story, not online except for subscribers. Some excerpts:…

Michael shares kind of a weird, interesting twist on the Phoenix-letter-signing priest story.

Krauthammer Jihadists, like all totalitarians, oppose many kinds of freedom. What makes them unique, however, is their particular hatred of freedom for women. They prize their traditional prerogatives that allow them to keep their women barefoot in the kitchen as illiterate economic and sexual slaves. For the men, that is a pretty good deal —…

Cleveland church where priest was murdered is designated a shrine A $1.5 million renovation was completed in 1998. Church members were meeting to discuss how to mark the 750th anniversary of the canonization of St. Stanislaus when tragedy struck in 2002. The Rev. William Gulas, the pastor, was murdered in the rectory by a religious…

American Life League runs ad criticizing the Cardinal A Roman Catholic antiabortion group launched an advertising campaign against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington yesterday, attacking him for saying he is not comfortable denying Communion to Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and other Catholic members of Congress who support abortion rights.

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