{"id":1828,"date":"2006-05-22T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/varia-18.html"},"modified":"2006-05-22T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T01:05:40","slug":"varia-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/varia-18.html","title":{"rendered":"Varia"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) I’m going to start holding back comments posted overnight for approval. I might start requiring Typekey<\/a>  so be ready!<\/p>\n

2) Links from the email box:<\/p>\n

– A great new Byzantine Rite Catholic blog – a group blog with several contributors.<\/a><\/p>\n

–Clayton Emmer has posted a podcast of a recording he made of one of my talks – that one in SoCal where I had the good fortune to meet him!<\/a><\/p>\n

–The latest HMS podcast containing a "Prove It!" segment<\/a><\/p>\n

–Fr. Bryce Sibley is featured in this TV news piece about DVC reactions<\/a> – Fr. Sibley is the proprietor of the late, lamented, Saintly Salmagundi blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

Most importantly, please go read Alicia the Midwife’s blog<\/a> about a horrifying situation involving a friend of hers – a blog reader passes it along with this note:<\/p>\n

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The long and short of the story is, Nancy has 12 children and the eldest son was accused of abusing the 10-year-old daughter.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Child protective services removed all the children from the house, citing Nancy and her husband’s failure to protect them from the alleged abuse, including the 13-month-old who is only breast-fed.<\/em><\/div>\n
This is the <\/em>first post<\/em><\/span><\/a> on the situation, including a break-down of the abuses by CPS against Nancy’s children.<\/em><\/div>\n
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And this is the <\/em>most recent post<\/em><\/span><\/a> on the situation.  Apparently, the 13-month-old was returned to Nancy with bruises, swelling (to the point they thought he had a skull fracture) and other injuries.  Then CPS took him away again and placed him back with the foster family from whence these injuries came.<\/em><\/div>\n
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This is very upsetting and heartbreaking.  Even if the allegations of abuse are true, the rest of Nancy’s children do not deserve to be scattered in a system that is clearly doing them more harm than good.<\/em><\/div>\n
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I think we all need to rally for the sake of Nancy (who is also an NFP-only midwife), her husband, and especially her children.  It’s so upsetting to me that it makes me cry.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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