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  The Papal Week That Was – By Richard John Neuhaus
  https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1052

“We need the children who are aborted,” Austrian bishop says in response to anti-life resolution
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12415

  Rush Limbaugh – most of what the pope said over the weekend was profound.  It was in awe.
  https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042108/content/01125113.guest.html

  It was beautiful. If you didn’t get choked up, you weren’t alive – Peggy Noonan on the Pope’s St. Patrick’s Mass
  https://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0285.htm

  In Wake Of Pope What We Need Now Is The Complete Cleansing Of Our Priesthood, says Catholic website editor
  https://www.spiritdaily.com/Churchpurify.htm

  A papal message about academic freedom By Star Parker
  https://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/04/21/a_papal_message_about_academic_freedom

  MSM Papal Trip Postmortem: Benedict Did ‘Better Than Expected’
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/04/21/msm-papal-post-mortem-benedict-did-better-expected

  Even for non-Catholics like me, there’s something comforting about a stubborn pope in a world of moral relativity. Like a strong father, he ignores his children’s pleas for leniency knowing that his rules, though tough, serve a higher purpose – National
  https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjhiMDY0NTU1ZGMwNzIwZGMwOTQ3YzFlNmYwNDFkNmM=

  Dictatorship of Relativism – The pope bears important truths about the roots of our experiment in liberty – National Review
  https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmE1NmY1NzI5MmU4ZWQzYzhiMjJjYTE4ODgxOTI2Yzc=

  The ACLU strangely silent, nowhere in evidence over Pope visit – Pat Boone
  https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62003

  Moscow Patriarchate believes in strategic alliance with Catholics
  https://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=4584

  Who needs the pope when we’ve got Fr. McBrien? – Dissident theologian invited to speak at Catholic school in Atherton
  https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=a5351aec-6b0a-42ad-8636-1233631074ea

  Pro-life Catholics plan own lobbying efforts in Sacramento because bishops’ agenda fails to mention protection of the unborn
  https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=4074876d-207a-4c4a-8cbc-8fa43ace19e3

  Pelosi takes Communion at papal Mass – She worries about human rights and climate change, but loses no sleep over abortion or human embryos used as spare parts
  https://calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=c3ebd2e0-d32f-4a58-bf45-5ad0d751a165

  Giuliani breaks rules by having Communion at papal mass
  https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1934271420080419

  Church critic “outs” American Cardinal McCarrick
  https://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57956

  10 Myths About Priestly Pedophilia
  https://www.catholicity.com/commentary/hudson/tenmyths.html

  Washington Post Faults Catholic Church Teaching for Filipino Poverty
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/04/21/washington-post-faults-catholic-church-teaching-filipino-poverty

  Beijing orders the political re-education of communists in Tibet
  https://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12064&size=A

  Spanking ban advances despite testimony from mom
  https://onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=76830

  Likely Erroneous Supreme Court Retirement Rumors
  https://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2008/080421.aspx

  GOP senator strikes deal on Bush’s judicial nominees
  https://onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=76834

  Obama is flush with money to spend; Clinton in debt
  https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D906BP2O2&show_article=1

  How the world was misled about global warming and now climate change
  https://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2704

  Cardinal Pell disputes global warming hypothesis
  https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12424

  Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’
  https://newsbusters.org/stories/al_gore_used_fictional_video_inconvenient_truth.html?q=blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/22/abc-s-20-20-gore-used-fictional-film-clip-inconvenient-truth

“Global warming”, now called “climate change”, is not about saving the planet, it’s about increasing government control of your life.
  https://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_20048.shtml

  Large Families Aren’t Dooming the Planet, Says ‘Demographic Winter’ Producer
  https://christiannewswire.com/news/590016334.html

  Gore’s Alarmism Failing: Concern for Global Warming Same as 19 Years Ago!
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/21/gores-alarmism-failing-concern-global-warming-same-19-years-ago

  Blizzard forced Edmonton Earth Day festivities to be relocated
  https://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/04/21/5343616-sun.html

  Vancouver region Friday night and Saturday represented the latest snowfall ever on record.
  https://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=be4b2831-e1ca-4d91-a8d0-426ce36fe059

  Vista’s 11 Pillars of Failure
  https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2286065,00.asp

  The Cruelty of the ‘Pro-Choice’ Crowd
  https://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/04/cruel_hoax.html

  Assisted Suicide Ideologues Pour in the $ for I 1000 – Wesley Smith
  https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/04/assisted-suicide-ideologues-pour-in-for.html

  Thin Skinned Richard Dawkins Can’t Take a Joke – Wesley Smith
  https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/04/thin-skinned-richard-dawkins-cant-take.html

  The Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax-Credit Act would provide a federal tax rebate to stem-cell researchers if their work doesn’t involve death or danger to human embryos.
  https://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000007185.cfm

  Shari’a-Compliant Financing Described As New Islamist Threat
  https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200804/NAT20080421a.html

  When Muslims become Christians
  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7355515.stm

  New Islamic Group To Combat Extremism
  https://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1313547,00.html?f=rss

  A fine line between jihad and insanity
  https://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=462005

  The Roots of Terrorism and the Source of Freedom – President Bush has shown a fundamental  misunderstanding of the attraction of Islamism. Neither evangelization nor the inculcation of philosophy have been important, crucially needed components of U.S.
  https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3460&Itemid=48

  Amazon.com’s Forum on Religion: Great Place to Bash Christians
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/terry-trippany/2008/04/22/amazon-com-s-forum-religion-great-place-bash-christians

  Three Ways to Expose the Partly Natural Family
  https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-02-019-f

  English diocese to stop adoption work because of gay-rights laws
  https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/viewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=1465

“Anti-Bullying” bill passes Massachusetts Senate – with major modifications after MassResistance testimony & pressure.
  https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt08/bills/bully_update.html

  ACLU defends Poway student who protested Day of Silence
  https://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=54c01305-fcd3-4e13-8bf9-34a610f40389

  The American Psychiatric Association has agreed to host a discussion on religion and therapy for homosexuality. Next month they’ll bring in conservative theologians and pro-gay voices to duke it out in two debates.
  https://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000007202.cfm