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washingtonpost.com Conservative Christian ministers from across the land, determined to test the bounds of a new law punishing anti-gay hate crimes, assembled outside the Justice Department on Monday to denounce the sin of homosexuality and see whether they would be charged with lawbreaking...

BBC NEWS | Health | Bans 'do not cut abortion rate' The Guttmacher Institute's survey found abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in regions where it is legal and regions where it is highly restricted. If banning abortion does not prevent abortions, shouldn't we direct our political energies...

I can understand why abortion, embryonic stem cells, and euthanasia are considered big deals: all involve the destruction of human life. I may disagree with people about how to deal with these things, but I have no problem understanding why people treat these as their primary political concern...

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The right-wing assault on abortion reduction. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine

The people of Iran are taking to the streets after an attempt to steal their presidential election. Men, women, and children are being beaten by police. Please pray that they may be given the courage, wisdom, and charity to survive this turmoil and come out of it with a peace based on freedom...

We need to stop justifying our own evils and the evils of those we support by pointing to the evils done by others. Evil does not justify evil. When we stand before Jesus on that final day, the fact that someone didn't give us food when we were hungry won't excuse us not giving food when they...

Tell me how the death penalty is moral according to Catholic teaching as practiced in the United States and in the current situation of the United States.

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2200 The author proposes six reforms: Make the Vatican a bureaucracy, not a court. Strengthen the legislative bodies in the church. Convert congregations into elected synodal committees. Create an independent judiciary. Elect bishops...

When praying in a group, I believe that we should always phrase our prayers in the a way that everyone in the group can agree with. Prayer is an intimate action, and inserting a partisan attack into prayer hurts those who disagree with a sense of betrayal. It forces people to become distant as...

http://www.slate.com/id/2194232/ Genes that increase attraction to men cause mothers, maternal sisters, and maternal aunts to produce enough extra children to compensate for non-reproducing male.

This has nothing to do with Peter Rabbit or South Park. :P Tonight, we had our annual Hip Hop Mass. It was awesome. We even did a hip hop version of Taste and See, which worked surprisingly well. We are blessed to have a priest who can pull off his part of a Hip Hop Mass.

I've noticed that several people here have a highly idealized view of the Church: perfect in understanding and free of sin. However, all of our interactions with the Church is through humans: popes, bishops, priests, and laity, who are all limited in their knowledge, limited in their...

Does anyone else get the impression that many people's working definition of traditional is whatever the Church did in the 1950's?

First, to be clear, there are many people who are sincerely concerned about abortion. If you are one of these people, this post does not apply to you. I've been having many political discussions lately, and I've noticed something that disturbs me. When discussing an issue where I feel...

Some see punishment as something as intrinsically required in response to injustice. I disagree. I believe punishment should happen only if it serves some purpose. This purpose might be to rehabilitate. It can be to deter future injustice. It can be to prevent the person from being able to...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/why-im-prolife-and-pro_b_85636.html He has a good point that telling people to not worry about doing anything to help other people and to just keep spending money is detrimental to creating a culture of life.

I just finished John L. Allen, Jr.'s Opus Dei. I bought it because I have enjoyed Allen's reporting on Catholic affairs, finding it both knowledgeable and unbiased. I looking forward to hearing what someone who is neither an apologist or a critic of Opus Dei would have to say. I found St...

Are women ontologically different from men? I saw this asserted and thought it would be interesting to discuss.

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