An interesting move from a Lawrence, KS Birthright center has angered some. A Christmas tree that a pregnancy counseling organization provided to a women’s fitness center prompted three people to cancel their memberships because the tree is decorated with plastic figures meant to represent fetuses. "This is insidious," said Kelly Jones, one of the women…

Various miracles approved, servants of God and martyrs recognized Mostly Italian religious order founders and martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. Update: This interesting CNS piece points out how this represented more returns to a streamlined process by Benedict XVI Once again returning to a streamlined practice in place before the pontificate of Pope John…

Well, almost everyone has put their two cents in, so here goes. I haven’t seen it, don’t plan to, but I did see the SNL parody Brokeback Goldmine, which was purty durn funny. Do you remember the snickering at the trailer I mentioned? This is evidently a national phenomenon, worthy of a notice in the…

The Wall Street Journal attempts to get our money by publishing two excellent religion-related pieces over the past few days, available only to subscribers, but sent to me by kind friends. First was a front-page story on the recent misadventures of Bruce Wilkinson, the author of the mega-bestselling Prayer of Jabez: But his life took…

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