Thanks to the ingenuity of doctors, a pregnant woman diagnosed with mouth cancer was able to receive the life-saving chemotherapy and radiation she needed without doing harm to her unborn child.
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"We are each our own devils and we make this world our hell."
Oscar Wilde
For Reflection:
How have I witnessed the truth of this statement? In my life? In the lives of others? Am I living it out right now? How can I surrender to God's grace to make it now so?
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Those of us who are anxious about becoming too addicted to our cell phones have a new worry to add to our collection - texting in our sleep.
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A private meeting between President Obama and Archbishop Timothy Dolan, head of the U.S. Bishops, has resulted in a new proposal to expand the religious exemption from new rules that require health insurance plans to cover contraceptives for women.
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In what is being hailed as a huge pro-life victory in Michigan, the owner of two late-term abortion clinics whose employees were caught dumping fetal body parts in dumpsters, has been forced to shutter his clinics and is forbidden open any future medical facilities in the state.
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"The world is only peopled to people heaven."
St. Francis de Sales
For Reflection:
What a beautiful quote! What does this tell me about me? What does this tell me about God's plans for me? What does this tell me about everyone I meet? What does this tell me about all that happens to me? How can this quote give direction, meaning, and purpose to my life?
(Compare this to tomorrow's Grace Line.)
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Top Republican Senators are now saying that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's previous work as solicitor general may satisfy all the requirements needed for a justice to be recused from a case.
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In spite of the inroads it is making in some state legislatures, one of the country's foremost authorities on same-sex attraction says decades of social science research has found that children are harmed by homosexual parenting.
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Deep in the heart of a country many refer to as the "home of voodoo," Pope Benedict XVI spent the last three days teaching, proclaiming and exhorting the faithful of Benin to become "the light of Africa."
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"All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven."
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1030
For Reflection:
How does Purgatory reveal to us the mercy of God? Why is purification and true holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven?
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