A new Gallup poll has found that the mood of voters heading into the 2012 election year is significantly gloomier than it was in 2008 when President Barack Obama was elected, with those expressing concern about the nation's moral climate reaching record highs.
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Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), says the claim by Roman Catholic bishops that Catholic institutions have a conscience is "poppycock."
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Pope Benedict XVI's message for World Communications Day calls upon the faithful to take a break from constant tweeting, Googling and Facebooking in order to listen to others and understand ourselves better.
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Last night's State of the Union address contained a few glaring inaccuracies, and even when the president's facts and figures were accurate, he often left out the rest of the story.
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Even the politically savvy Obama Administration seems to have miscalculated the risks of threatening religious liberty as tempers flare over its decision to allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to give religious employers a mere one-year extension before forcing them to comply with a mandate to provide coverage for practices that violate their conscience rights.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver another State of the Union address, questions are being raised about whether or not the promises he makes tonight will end up like so many of his past pledges - unfulfilled.
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Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington DC yesterday for the annual March for Life, with the cold and a constant freezing drizzle unable to dampen their spirits.
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Bishop Joseph P. McFadden of the diocese of Harrisburg criticized the monopolistic American public school system, saying that “totalitarian governments would love our system” in an interview with
ABC.
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Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS), issued an announcement late Friday afternoon indicating that her department will ignore the concerns of religious employers regarding HHS rules mandating health insurance coverage for sterilizations and contraception, including some that cause abortion, except to allow religious groups a year to comply with the law.
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The mainstream media will probably black out today's March for Life in Washington, DC the way they usually do, but their efforts to shield the public from the pro-life view are futile because the quest to end abortion-in-demand in America is making astonishing progress without their "help."
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