3 hours ago by Mikel

In the environment where I grew up, ideas of patriotism were mixed in closely with those of Christianity. It was “one nation under God” and after I came to disbelieve in God it took me a while to stop seeing the American Flag as a Christian symbol. Not a Christian symbol. In the book The God Virus, ...

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3 hours ago by Susan Kehoe

Our Bishop is awesome. From today’s Des Moines Register: “President Barack Obama’s abrupt policy shift aimed at defusing a national uproar over birth control didn’t go far enough for Des Moines Catholic Bishop Richard Pates, who has penned a letter he wants read from the pulpit or printed in the bul ...

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3 hours ago by david1776

By Susan Crabtree-The Washington Times Reacting to an election-year firestorm, the White House on Friday shifted course on its health care contraception mandate, announcing that religious employers will not have to cover free birth control for their employees and that the responsibility would instea ...

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3 hours ago by Susan Kehoe

The Bishops are not backing down. They issued a second statement late yesterday. Excerpt: Today, the President has done two things. First, he has decided to retain HHS’s nationwide mandate of insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients. This is both unsupport ...

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4 hours ago by Rev Fr Stefan Hippler

Stefan Hippler Silently into the grave – Why those with Aids don’t want to know the truth No, no, it’s fine. Everything’s okay. Whenever we ask Maggie* how she is doing, she always gives the same answer. But we can see that she is getting thinner and weaker by the day. It’s obvious that she struggle ...

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6 hours ago by bellalu0

His holy highness obama in his mercy has offered an accommodation/indulgence to the bishops for their failure to obey his command to provide free birth control to all women no matter “where they work ” I don’t think he will ever forgive them … Continue reading →

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13 hours ago by Dr. D

(Image via Wikipedia) President Obama announced today a ‘compromise’ to the uproar caused by an HHS mandate that religious allied employers provide for contraceptives, abortive pills, and sterilization as part of the health care for their employees. The President merely put the burden on the Insuran ...

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14 hours ago by clockwatcher23

I didn’t take the greatest picture of it, but damn it, it’s my picture of it, so here it is: I can’t help it . . . here also is a gorgeous painting by Giovanni Paoli Panini (or Pannini) of the basilica when you first walk in (below). It slightly depicts (more than anything else can) how massive the ...

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14 hours ago by AKoehler

Truth Asked: Did Obama show us again why he is such a great leader with his grand contraception compromise? -Catholic Church affiliated institutions don't have to pay for contraception -Women who work at the Catholic Church affiliated institutions will get contraception covered without extra charge ...

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15 hours ago by kavips

This is mainly for my friends on the right. After reading the headline, they will rush off to relieve their bowels. Then once empty, come back to read the rest. There is an old adage, that at one time was often pasted on the first state’s only right wing blog, now called Delaware Politics. It used t ...

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