The issues surrounding the Church’s position on the protection of ALL life are complex; too complex to cover in a few hundred word blog post, so I’ll leave the more technical stuff to others. What I’m posting about today is why it’s cool to be Pro Life. I suppose the short answer would be that [...]
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Here in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, our Archbishop, Robert Carlson, has written a pastoral letter which is to be read in every parish. The topic is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate that all employers, including Catholic employers provide insurance coverage for artificial birth control, abortion, and the morning-after abortion pill. [...]
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“Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! ’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. ‘ The second is this: ’You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ When the scribe in today’s Gospel agreed with the [...]
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Listen to the Podcast OK, admit it. When you come to mass and you see that there’s a choice between a long reading and a short reading, you hope that we use the short one. Even though the longer reading may only take a minute more to read, there’s just something about the shorter one [...]
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Listen to the Poscast. Imagine a political leader so self-absorbed yet so insecure that he chooses to kill all the babies in his kingdom to ensure that he kills the one who would be king. That’s exactly what Herod did when he heard of the birth of the Messiah. In spite of the fact that [...]
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