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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…

Brendan Evans of the Indy Criterion has a post on the Shroud of Turin (Torino?), citing an interview he did a while back with a Shroud expert BTW….someone has ruminated that the catchphrase "Passion lives here" (Turino’s Olympic theme) is a backhanded, flippant reference to the Shroud…hmmmm…

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Bob Casey Jr. headlines Human Rights Campaign (gay advocacy group) dinner.

Add this to the pot: Al Kimel at Pontifications runs a post on the possibilities of a separate Anglican Rite within the Roman Catholic Church. The links he has and the comments on his own post point to the complexities of the situation, which are far more…complex…than those of us on the outside might realize…

Jeff Miller offers a rundwon of several Catholic podcasts.

In Illinois, and no..not about what you might assume Broadcast ads highly critical of how non-profit Catholic hospitals handle their billing and collection practices are helping spotlight Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s efforts to tighten regulations on all non-profit hospitals. Madigan is pushing legislation in Springfield for the first time to set standards for charity care…

Christopher Blosser has three detailed, very helpful posts.

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