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Headlines Supreme Court Hears McCullen v. Coakley: Buffer Zones Preventing Pro-Life Speech Threaten Freedom By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 16, 2014 The case originated with a courageous seventy seven year old Massachusetts woman named Eleanor McCullen. She is a mother and grandmother who goes to abortion clinics and peacefully seeks to help the mothers and the fathers understand the truth concerning what happens in every abortion. She also gives out knitted stocking caps filled with educational information on alternatives to abortion. She and her colleagues believe that the First Amendment is supposed to protect them. They are completely peaceful, do not block access, and offer support, educational information and assistance. This is a public sidewalk. Continue Reading... Guest Opinion: Ken Blackwell on President Obama Quenching America's Sacred Fire By Ken Blackwell | January 16, 2014 Nuns hopeful of stay, read the headlines. No, they weren't going to be executed. Only their consciences were to be violated. The HHS Mandate was going to force them to cover abortifacient drugs that can end the lives of unborn children. Now, and only temporarily, the Supreme Court has stayed the execution of the HHS Mandate under ObamaCare. Never in America's long history has such a headline even been imaginable. The gravest threat to religious freedom has been part of what President Obama meant when he said he would "fundamentally transform this country." Continue Reading... Pope Francis asks for 'Prayer and Action' Will you be like the rich man who turned from Jesus? By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | January 18, 2014 The community of Catholic Online continues to answer Pope Francis' call to feed the world's hungry. With a third shipment of food aid to the Philippines ready to go, the work hasn't stopped. A fourth is planned and Catholic Online with Your Catholic Voice Foundation has a powerful new solution in the works. We will be working with Pope Francis to go further than ever before in the fight against hunger and poverty. Read on to learn what this exciting new solution will be. Continue Reading... Culture, Its Delights and Distractions: Looking at Catholic Culture From the Parking Lot By Deal W. Hudson | January 16, 2014 Since John Paul II there has been much discussion of "evangelizing the culture" and for Catholics to become more "evangelical" in their witness to the world. Those Catholics who describe themselves as evangelical or are doing evangelism, often look and sound to my ears anyway, like Protestant Evangelicals with a slightly different vocabulary. To my eyes and ears, there have been few examples of a genuine integration of evangelical zeal with Catholic piety; rather, Southern Evangelicalism has been laid over the Catholic faith like peanut butter over stale bread. That's not enough! Continue Reading... Pope Francis Warns of a Throwaway Culture, Calls Abortion Horrific, Media Misses the Message By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 16, 2014 The inference in many media reports is utterly absurd, that Pope Francis is speaking out on the intrinsic evil of procured abortion to somehow silence his conservative critics. Sadly, this lightweight narrative has been propelled in the media, secular and religious, since Francis assumed the Chair of Peter. The truth is that Francis is as passionately Pro-Life as his predecessors. In fact, he may, with his newest inspired turn of phrase, Throwaway Culture be giving the movement dedicated to protecting our youngest neighbors in the womb the fresh verbal and conceptual framework it needs at this critical time. Continue Reading... Culture, Its Delights and Distractions: Why Dictators Start with the Culture By Deal W. Hudson | January 16, 2014 American culture over the past 50 years has slowly been \"occupied\" by elites that don\'t profess the same values of the Founders; or the religious groups who came here to freely practice their faith; or the men and women who fought and died in the two great wars. The nation\'s most historic and influential youth clubs, first the Girl Scouts and now the Boy Scouts, have become flagships for the \"gay agenda,\" which goes far beyond the issue of basic human rights.There is no need to enumerate the major cultural institutions that have become voices for an ideology counter to the Christian, and other faiths. What we need to affirm, however, is that we never faced an army rolling down the street with tanks and machine guns. We have actually accepted and funded the cultural takeover, voluntarily. Continue Reading... Freedom, Choosing and Becoming: The Moral Life and the Splendor of Truth By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 16, 2014 What we choose determines who we become. Choosing what is good changes the chooser, empowering him or her to proceed along the pathways of virtue and develop the habitus - or habits- which promote Christian character. The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses human choice, action and freedom: The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to "the slavery of sin". (Cf. Rom 6:17) (CCC#1733) Continue Reading... Long defending the practice, Pope Francis baptizes child of unmarried couple By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | January 13, 2014 Having long called for the practice, Pope Francis baptized the baby of an unmarried couple in the Sistine Chapel during Baptism of the Lord mass at the Vatican. The unnamed parents and their child took part in the traditional Baptism of the Lord mass with 31 others, commemorating the day St. John baptized Jesus. Continue Reading... Ten Maxims Catholics Need to Know to Change the Culture By Deal W. Hudson | January 14, 2014 Last week I was asked by a Legatus group in Phoenix to address the issue of how Catholics impact and change the culture. I offered this list of ten "maxims" about political participation, the place where Catholic influence in the culture has needed serious attention for a long time. Continue Reading...
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