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Obama Admin to force a $1 abortion surcharge on your insurance payments

Posted on 14 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Pres. Obama lied to Card. Dolan.  Don’t forget that.
Time and time again the White House makes sounds using words that, to reasonable, rational speakers of the English language mean one thing, but actually mean something else.
Again, I come back to … Continue reading →

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Obama gives Amish complete exemption. Catholics? Talk to the hand! Why? Why do you think?

Posted on 14 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A few days ago Sr. Mary Ann Walsh at the USCCB Blog posted this:
Friday, March 9, 2012
Amish, Ok. Catholics, No.
The Amish are exempt from the entire health care reform law. So are members of Medi-Share, a program of Christian Care … Continue reading →

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Pro-abortion bigot group attacks Catholics in Hell’s Bible paid ad. Catholic League explains.

Posted on 11 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the Catholic League:
FRONTAL ASSAULT ON CATHOLICISM
MARCH 9, 2012 BY ADMIN
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Never has there been a more vicious anti-Catholic advertisement in a prominent American newspaper than the one in today’s New York Times[Hell's Bible] … Continue reading →

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“right to privacy” now results in record keeping of contraceptives and abortion pills

Posted on 11 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Mark Steyn has an especially mordant column on National Review Online about the nation’s new contracepting sweetheart ( for lack of a better word), Sandra Fluke.  This pair of paragraphs caught my attention.
Steyn points to an ironic contradiction in the … Continue reading →

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Video from a priest about Pres. Obama’s HHS mandate attack on the 1st Amendment

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From PhatMass.com, Fr. Claude Burns has a video with a message about Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment and on the Catholic Church.

“But Father! But Father!”, some of you will be saying, “Father has his back to the tabernacle!”
Yes, … Continue reading →

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HOUSTON 9 March: Mass and Prayer Rally during Pres. Obama’s campaign stop

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I like this approach.
The pro-abortion, pro-infantide, anti-Catholic, anti-1st Amendment Pres. Obama – about whose scantily documented past we really don’t know very much – will be in Houston… fund-raising on the pretext of doing something “presidential”.
The Archdiocese, on the other hand, is … Continue reading →

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Obama Admin lectures Card. Dolan and USCCB. Dolan responds.

Posted on 6 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

“We did not ask for this fight, but we will not run from it.”
Thus, Card. Dolan about the latest insult tossed our way by the Obama Administration.
From LifeSite:
Cardinal: Obama Admin Lectured Bishops on Catholic Teaching
by Steven Ertelt
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the … Continue reading →

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Common ground?

Posted on 3 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Via the great Vincenzo:

Remember his promises at Notre Dame?  The hopes of Card. Cottier?  The excuses of Doug Kmiec? The panting of L’Osservatore Romano?
Don’t forget that Vincenzo has the Pius Clocks!

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Sebellius: Reduce costs by reducing births

Posted on 2 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Did you know that Pres. Obama’s closest science adviser, John Holdren, was a colleague of Paul Erlich, the chicken-little of resource scarcity due to over-population?   If we don’t force the number of births down, we’ll run out of resources … Continue reading →

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Bp. Lori responds for USCCB to America Magazine’s cave in on Pres. Obama’s HHS attack

Posted on 2 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Jesuit-controlled America Magazine recently caved in to the Obama Administration in the matter of Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment and on the Catholic Church.  In their role as a pipe for the Magisterium of Nuns, the magazine undercut … Continue reading →

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