Monday June 16, 2008
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LIFE ISSUES
A Liverpool man who violently attacked his heavily pregnant girlfriend on Christmas Eve, killing their unborn baby, has been jailed for eight years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7448903.stm
Rock for Life Kicks Off Summer Pro-life Mission
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkzh9V0o9zFzJd6yRYf4k_JcdiZgD918KHU80
Franciscan University Launches Bioethics Program
http://ncregister.com/site/article/15167
Ovulation moment caught on camera -A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, it took 15 minutes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm
Good News on Adult Stem Cells
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Good-News-on-Adult-Stem-Cells.html&Itemid=127
U.S.POLITICS
MUST LISTEN: Michael Medved talks with Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?ContentGuid=914c934c-631a-4924-9a59-9cf15b230ceb&RadioShowId=4
Is Bobby Jindal -- Who May Be On McCain's Veep Shortlist -- An Exorcist?
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/bobby_jindals_dance_with_the_d.php
Bush 'may convert to Catholicism'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bush-may-convert-to-catholicism-846953.html
Now Greeley Says It's Racist Not to Vote Obama
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/06/11/chgo-sun-times-now-greely-says-its-racist-not-vote-obama
What happened to Obama's Catholic Advisory Council?
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=What-happened-to-Obama-s-Catholic-Advisory-Council-.html&Itemid=127
Is anyone else as surprised as I am that Cardinal George allowed Fr. Pfleger to return to his parish, St. Sabina's, after only a week? - Deal Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Cardinal-George-s-One-Week-Suspension.html&Itemid=127
November Election Is Obama’s to Lose
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&BarnaUpdateID=300
When the GOP began its decline
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67002
Today's Republican leadership refuses to acknowledge that the social agenda has increased in importance. Unfortunately, courage and leadership are rare.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67002
There is no doubt at all that both Barack Obama and John McCain talk about families in their speeches but do they talk about “the family”?
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/thanks_for_supporting_family_values_but_what_about_the_family/
HUMAN RIGHTS
What the disasters in Myanmar and China have shown is that human rights and simple human dignity are best respected in a democracy
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/the_road_to_democracy_is_paved_with_cell_phones/
In Canada you can go to jail for offending someone with the truth. Mark Steyn says America is foolish to think that it can and will prevail as the one outpost of free speech if all the other Western nations fall
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/free_speech_on_the_ropes/
When did the Bible become 'hate speech'? - Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=ceebc006-06cc-4aa8-ad1a-5e3f7f5c8229
Let's hear it for fathers. But hurry, because fairly soon it might be politically incorrect, and then perhaps illegal to speak out and cheer for them
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3867&Itemid=48
The Decline of Common Law Constitutionalism in Canada
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=806&theme=home&loc=b
ENVIRONMENTALIST EXTREMISM
Attack of the tomato industry killers - Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
http://www.financialpost.com/analysis/columnists/story.html?id=8b6b44c4-639d-4463-9095-10bf48c6e948
Environmentalists Seize Green Moral High Ground Ignoring Science
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3482
Dirty US Media Secret: 'Rest of the World' Rebels Against Climate Taxes
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/06/10/dirty-us-media-secret-rest-world-rebels-against-climate-taxes
MISCELLANEOUS
Chinese spying efforts "frightening" and said it was no secret that the United States is a principal target of Chinese intelligence services.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_go_co/china_hacking
Abolish The Monarchy Un Report Tells Britain
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/48121/Abolish-the-monarchy-UN-report-tells-Britain
Sins of Omission: Making School Textbooks Politically Correct
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3855&Itemid=48
Anti-Ahmadi decree inches Indonesia one step closer to an Islamic state
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12504&size=A
House GOP Leader: FCC Proposing Government Takeover of Broadcast Media
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/13/house-gop-leader-fcc-proposing-government-takeover-broadcast-media
Talk About Movies: “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=24db25ee-bb65-4a4f-bf51-df3a830e3205
RELIGION
Cardinals Foley, Brady and DiNardo appointed to positions by the Pope
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12916
Only Imagine Tolle’s New Earth, Part 1
http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/full.php?news=16673
Assessing a More Prominent 'Religious Left'
http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=187
Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=305
American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues
http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=186
Baltimore archbishop demands greater accountability from Legionaries of Christ
http://ncrcafe.org/node/1906
Vatican: Pope thanks Bush for defending 'fundamental moral values'
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.2251234575
MORALITY
The Interior Design of Sex and the City Reflects a Culture in Ruins
http://www.catholicexchange.com/2008/06/13/112832/
Cohabitation Becomes Mainstream Around the World
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007620.cfm
Does America need repairs?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=135790
The deepest, widest sexual scandal in the Church has nothing to do with priests
http://ncregister.com/site/article/15165
HOMOSEXUALITY
Homosexual Intolerance Of The Vatican During The Rome Sin Pride Parade
http://www.realclearreligion.com/index_files/7ff78026c71805c5d8e28d5a4fedb10e-398.html#unique-entry-id-398
San Francisco parishes won’t join this year’s “gay pride” march, but Most Holy Redeemer will have beverage booth
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=16787fec-4f7c-491d-b2b7-7c363e4234c9
A new Colorado law - Penalties created for those who criticize homosexuality outside church walls
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66829
Nine leading homosexual-activist groups are reiterating their strategy to redefine marriage across the nation.
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007614.cfm
“It is really just our response to… well, we’re tired of the hate mail,” - Fr. Steve Meriwether, pastor of homosexual activist California Catholic parish
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=16787fec-4f7c-491d-b2b7-7c363e4234c9
Pro-homosexual bills and an anti-obscenity bill move into the state Senate
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=686e0a02-7ca8-442f-98d1-71f7cf5a3e06
Where are all the homosexuals?
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67027
Massachusetts Governor's daughter says she's gay; Dad says he's proud
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkzh9V0o9zFzJd6yRYf4k_JcdiZgD918KHU80
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