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I\u2019m a big supporter of Life Matters Journal<\/em>.\u00a0 Their incredibly simple idea:\u00a0 Be Consistent.\u00a0 Hold with the whole of Catholic teaching on the dignity and sanctity of human life and stop ransacking for bits and pieces to fortify a stunted, destructive and inhuman ideology.\u00a0 The existence, youth, and vitality of these guys (centered at Franciscan University in Steubenville) is a great and joyous sign of the genuinely prophetic witness of the Catholic tradition to our culture.\u00a0 Love, love, love \u2019em!<\/p>\n

So what to my wonder eyes should appear today but a poster advertising their upcoming conference that exactly communicate this fully Catholic attempt to *consistently* address the whole spectrum of Catholic love for the whole human person and all human persons:<\/p>\n

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(Click on the poster to find out more about the conference and Life Matters Journal<\/em>).\u00a0 Now what\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about!\u00a0 These guys get it.\u00a0 After thirty years of polarized tribal groups tearing the common sense of Seamless Garment <\/a>thinking to tatters with their endless Culture War tribalism, some smart young Catholics are finally starting to insist on consistency.\u00a0 God bless their work in the Vineyard!\u00a0 I wish I could be there to see it!\u00a0 If you can be there, go!\u00a0 They are on\u00a0the side of the angelws and deserve all the support we can give them.\u00a0 Such stuff just might change history!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"