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The comic-saint for today – from Mike Aquilina.

The Family Scholars blog has been running personal stories of children conceived by donors and/or via surrogacy. It’s important reading. As is the blog Buffalo Girl, described as: Being donor conceived does not define me but it is relevant to who I am. This blog is here to give a voice to the seldom heard…

Lovely story from the KC (Ks) Catholic paper about a mendicant community on a mission trip to the area: For the Little Sisters and Brothers of the Community of the Lamb, a branch of the Dominican order based in the south of France, go knocking on the doors of the houses of their mission territory…

…I won’t post, here I am. The new director of the Vatican Observatory, in an interview with CNS: Father Funes spoke Aug. 24 in a phone interview with Catholic News Service from the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome. On Aug. 19, Pope Benedict XVI named the 43-year-old priest director of the astronomical observatory.…

I am leaving a bit later today to go to Amarillo, TX – I will be speaking at their Eucharistic Congress tomorrow, then heading back here tomorrow afternoon. So…no more posting today unless there is big news, and comments are closed. What that means is that if you try to post, it will tell you…

Chinese Activist imprisoned: blind activist who exposed a campaign by Chinese officials to force women to have abortions was jailed for more than four years yesterday in one of the country’s most controversial human rights cases since the Tiananmen Square massacre. The case against Chen Guangcheng, a peasant who became known as the "barefoot lawyer…

Victor Morton nails Plan B: Let me see if I’ve got this straight: A daily dose of from 0.05 to 0.15 mg of levonorgestrel requires a prescription. Requiring that a 1.5 mg dose of levonorgestrel must have a prescription is patriarchal tyranny over women’s bodies, sexphobic anti-scientism and the precursor to a HANDMAID’S TALE-like theocracy.

The goods: In what he describes as “an act of undefeatable hope” and in what I describe as “desperation for attention,” Dr. Maguire sent a letter to all 270 Catholic Bishops in the United States urging them to read two enclosed pamphlets by Dr. Maguire, one arguing for abortion and the other for gay marriage.…

Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P comments below: If only there were a good serious biography of the Poverello himself! And I’m sitting here thinking…huh. There isn’t, you know. There are tons and tons of lives of Francis, but not a (to the extent in can be) complete scholarly biography. Interesting.

Essentially shut down: A doctor suspended for allegedly performing two improper abortions filed an appeal Tuesday defending the procedures. The Florida Department of Health entered an emergency suspension against Dr. James Pendergraft on Aug. 10, accusing him of inappropriately conducting two third-trimester abortions in 2004 and 2005 and prescribing drugs without authorization. In the appeal,…
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