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Okay. Saw the NYTimes article. Don’t send it to me!!! Mentions the publisher, the products, but not the title or the esteemed author. Oh well. And a nice mention in the New Critereon blog.

Here. Since support for abortion on the part of Catholic politicians is objectively a scandal, bishops have responded by teaching publicly and speaking privately to Catholic office holders. Because these measures have not been particularly successful, the question now is whether sanctions of some sort should be applied. There are complications. On the part of…

At After Abortion. She was there. The March, in three words: “viciously, mercilessly abusive.” The amount of verbal aggression and abuse hurled at me personally, by women and men, of all ages, for carrying the I REGRET MY ABORTION sign, well, I thought that from all the nastiness and name-calling I’ve withstood recently on ampersand…

Blogger The Truth Laid Bear says this is exactly what would-be-Communion-denying clerics are doing. Isn’t the Catholic Church doing Kerry a huge favor by starting to make noises that Catholic politicians who, like Kerry, support abortion rights are not fit to receive Communion? Finally, an issue that even Kerry is unlikely to waffle on and…

Reports Quietly gathering around the march were women and men — and college students — organized under a group called Silent No More, which works with families suffering from abortion. Their permit request was denied after an effective effort from the supposedly freedom-loving sisters who organized the “March for Women’s Lives.” (Said Georgette Forney, president…

Terry Mattingly takes a look. It was also interesting to note that there few follow-ups on other interesting religion-news angles in the big story of the day. The Chicago Tribune advance story, for example, had featured an eye-opener of a lead by “special contributor” Gail Schmoller Philbin. It noted that, “Sister Donna Quinn, a Palos…

Charlotte Allen closes her observations: The most refreshing event of the choice-rally in my book took place at the film-festival movie we saw last evening, which was also attended by many marchers before they left town. The movie, “Two Summers,” a Brazilian entry, was, as chance would have it, about abortion. Actually, it was about…

Michael Rubin wants to know Career diplomats now undercut democracy in Iraq. On April 23, L. Paul Bremer delivered a speech in which he embraced former Iraqi army officers and senior Baathists. He promised to rehire teachers fired not for simple Baath-party membership, but rather for active service in the highest levels of Saddam’s party,…

I have no idea why, but De-Coding is at 57 on BN today, has been floating in and out of the BN Top 100 all weekend. If only Amazon….sigh. I still have copies here. Order and I send out the next day or even the same day, depending on how much Play-Dough I have to…

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