“Ardent Catholic” and holder of a 100% Pro-Choice Voting Record by NARAL, Nancy Pelosi met with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Maybe I’m confused Speaker Pelosi, but I think Pope Benedict XVI is probably in a better position than any of us to define what makes an “ardent Catholic.” You see, in my humble outside-the-beltway […]

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Congratulations President Obama. I join my prayers with the Holy Fathers in wishing you peace and joy. Here is the text of the Holy Father’s telegram to President Obama. (Thank you kindly, InsideCatholic)
On the occasion of your inauguration as the Forty-fourth president of the United States of America I offer cordial good wishes, together with the assurance […]

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Another fabulous video from CatholicVote.com.

Thank you kindly, Deacon’s Bench.

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I have truly wanted to avoid making political statements on my blog. Partly because I am so disgusted by the whole political scene this election cycle that my blood pressure simply cannot take paying close enough attention to have an opinion informed enough to blog on it. Although lest anyone take me to task for […]

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Save your book money. There's a book scheduled to be released in September that you are going to want. Let me rephrase that. You need this book.
Now those of you who know me more than just reading what I write here and those who read regularly enough to be deeply suspicious that I am […]

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From the July 30, 2008 edition of National Review…
"A few years back, the promoters of "Bodies…The Exhibition" had a problem. The traveling science-museum show, in which preserved corpses stripped of their skin are used to display the human body's internal organs, needed a supply of cadavers in good condition from healthy people (who just happened […]

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Cardinal Arinze's witty and (brief) remarks on Pro-Abortion politics….

alt : http://www.youtube.com/v/kv3MRyKfEHA&hl=en

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While rightly charging United States bishops with doing all in their power to heal the dreadful wounds caused by priests who forsake their vows and prey on children, the Holy Father also rightly draws attention to the wider context of what it means to fully protect children. Although I have seen him attacked and accused […]

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