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When Bill O’Reilly used the term “potential human being” to describe a human fetus in 2011, Catholic Online (among other journals) quickly corrected him. However, he evidently didn’t get the message, because he...
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Reflections Of A Catholic Layman On Many Of The Forced Marches Throughout Time
While I was a student at Holy Redeemer High School in Southwest Detroit, conducted by the sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from Monroe Michigan, I became familiar with the march of the French in the expulsion of...
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Nothing New Under the Sun
Sisters and Brothers,Barnabas, the companion of St. Paul wrote in a letter attributed to him “Love your neighbor more than your own life. Do not kill an unborn child through abortion, nor destroy it after birth.”...
David Seitz
He’s a Good Father?
At the pregnancy center where I volunteer, I recently sat down with a twenty-three-year-old woman who had come in for a pregnancy test. Aside from the biological questions we ask (symptoms, last period, etc.), we also...
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