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As the vote on health care reform nears, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend weighs in: The good news is that thoughtful minds have come together in the House of Representatives to craft a reasonable and abortion-neutral proposal in health reform. It is neither pro-choice nor anti-choice. It is simply pro-health care. [snip] Unfortunately, this reasonable approach is…

The details here: Nineteen-year-old Reehahlio Carroll was charged on Friday in the death of Sr. Margaurite Bartz. According to the Associated Press, Carroll told investigators that he broke into the sister’s trailer home on Halloween night in search of money or valuables. Caroll was confronted by Sr. Bartz, 64, who hit her intruder with a…

And, what may be most surprising of all: he’s also an admitted killer.

If this doesn’t make you weep, check your pulse.  It’s brief, and just plain wonderful.       The Return from Iraq – Awesome video clips here H/T New Advent and Creative Minority Report

“As a peacekeeper, my goal is to enable women to enter a reproductive health clinic in dignity and without fear of being physically assaulted. … I am very worried that the publicity around my presence will lead to violations of every woman’s right to privacy and expose them to further violence.”  — Sr. Donna Quinn,…

If you’d like some insight into how it’s done, this essay at the Catholic News Service is both informative, and inspiring. The pastor, Fr. Kenneth Doyle, concludes: There is still, of course, some sadness over the merger and some adjustment yet to be made; it is not an easy thing to give up the place…

A lot of priests have a hobby. But here’s one that’s a little out of the ordinary: When Christopher Wenthe was an electrical engineer and single, living in the Twin Cities, he had lots of time to hunt and fish. The deer opener, like the duck and pheasant openers, wasn’t something he squeezed in between…

With those words, a Catholic bishop has called for mercy for a convicted killer sentenced to die: As Virginia prepared to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington called for mercy and urged that Muhammad’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole.  In the needles of…

They’re making history, and they’re from across the pond: The Traditional Anglican Communion’s province in Great Britain has become the first to accept Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans.  All its members voted unanimously to come into communion with Rome under the terms of the new provision, which allows them to retain their Anglican…

This just in: The FBI says it has made an arrest in the murder of a nun who worked on a New Mexico Indian reservation.  The announcement Thursday morning came days after the body of 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz was found in her home in the northwestern New Mexico town of Navajo.  Her church sent…
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