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How the Church Can Be the Village

Pastoral Reflection: Rev. George Brooks

Reflection for Pentecost

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Washington Post Tries and Fails to Debunk Study on Mifepristone Dangers

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The Mystical Stock Fund of Philomena Colaianni

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The Sermon on the Mount

NEWSworthy: John Grondelski

Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood

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Making Abortion Absolute

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A Way of Escape

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Yonkers Woman Learns Abortion is Not the ‘Quick Fix’ She Thought

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Abortion Law Itself Depends on ‘Vigilante’ ‘Private Attorneys General’

The Washington Post’s critique of the Texas Heartbeat Law misses this irony. One person’s “vigilante” is another person’s “private attorney general.” It all depends on whose side you’re on. An interesting opinion piece disguised as a news...
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Arizona Bill Reveals New Frontiers in Abortion Litigation

  Pro-life legislative activism on the state level is heating up in advance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. One bill that’s moving forward in Arizona gives us a glimpse into what may be the next frontier of abortion...
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Who Wants to Be a Martyr?

  “I am God’s wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.” Today, Oct. 17, the Church remembers a first-century bishop who set a standard for Christian courage in the face of death. St. Ignatius of Antioch, friend of St....
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Pastoral Reflections

Forward to Basics

  There are many people, clergy and laity, who have a strong witness for life. Most never speak their witness before an audience or in front of a camera. Even so, their life-affirming words and deeds are heard and seen every day. Here is the story of one such witness. During...
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