This is rather startling: Widespread desecrations prompt church closings in Mexico: Incidents involving desecration have prompted the Diocese of La Paz, in Baja California, to close 200 chapels and churches to visits until March. Masses will be still allowed during this time, Bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz said in a communiqué issue over the weekend.…

Rob Vischer has a piece in The American Enterprise: This lesson must be heeded, even in the pharmacy. When morality and health care collide, individuals—whether pharmacy owners, pharmacists, or customers—will see the collision through wildly divergent convictions, and their desire to live out their convictions will naturally lead them to associate with like-minded others. The…

Getting the Word out at the Olympics: While official sponsors of the Winter Olympics are handing out bagfuls of freebies, churches are distributing a special Olympic edition of St. Mark’s Gospel. About 50,000 free copies of the pocket-sized paperback are being distributed in Turin as part of a joint initiative promoted by the local Catholic,…

Law and Order dramatizes a case of abortion rights protesters assaulting prolife advocates as they pray the rosary… In your dreams. What’s up on Boston Legal tonight? (Besides a bloviating, puffy William Shatner …) Although the Bush administration continues to spurn emergency contraception, promoters of the method are partying. Across the country, they are gathering…

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