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Details: More attempts to stop the Feb. 13 execution of convicted child killer Christopher Sepulvado failed to make headway Tuesday. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said he has rejected a request from the Louisiana’s Catholic bishops to stop the lethal injection. And the Louisiana Board of Pardons has denied Sepulvado’s clemency petition without a hearing. Sepulvado, [...]
You may remember this story from last month. Now, the hospital is changing its tune: A Catholic hospital group said on Monday it was “morally wrong” to contradict its church’s teachings on the beginning of life when it argued fetuses are not people to defend itself against a wrongful death lawsuit in Colorado. Catholic Health Initiatives said it will instead [...]
Our own Frank Weathers has read the mandate so that you don’t have to! His summation is here. A highlight or two: I learned a few things by reading the whole thing. For instance, I learned that the actual rule proposed to the Code of Federal Regulations is 8 and a half pages long, not 80. [...]
This is pretty terrific, and deeply moving: a short video about a boy named Antonio Lopez from northern Spain. He has cerebral palsy but has become a kind of hero to his classmates, who have embraced him with something that can only be called love. (Hey, any kid who likes Angry Birds is okay [...]
Most of us know the answer. The Chicago Tribune puts its finger on a trend with significant implications: Demographers have long known that the baby boom of the 1950s was giving way to a baby bust nationwide. Now Illinois and the Chicago area are providing a vivid example of the trend: According to data from [...]
A one-time giant in journalism gets caught with its pants down. It’s not pretty. From Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway, who did a little digging into a prominent sidebar the Times ran on the March for Life. The sidebar focused on a letter sent by 60 presumably prominent Catholics, “saying that if marchers and politicians truly [...]
Tim Drake has a very good interview with Abby Johnson posted at the National Catholic Register. Johnson, you’ll recall, was a director at Planned Parenthood who finally quit in 2009. Last year, she and her husband joined the Catholic Church and started an apostolate for abortion workers called And Then There Were None. At one [...]
It’s one of the most familiar fables of the American stage, “Our Town.” It has more resonance even now, especially today. Here, from the pen of Mr. Thornton Wilder, is part of the climactic monologue: Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I’m [...]
With friends like these… Sigh. Details, from the Colorado Independent: Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of breath and she passed out as she was being wheeled [...]
Is this the most offensive ad ever? Maybe. It’s certainly the most outrageous concept for promoting abortion that I’ve ever seen. Which, maybe, is the point: to get attention and raise eyebrows and spark as much controversy as possible. Mission accomplished. From the casually alluring Let’s-Get-It-On vibe to the watery repetition of the word [...]
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