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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Bishops Pledge to Intensify Efforts Against Obama Administration's "Unjust and Illegal" Mandate


The Administrative Committee of the US Catholic bishops said yesterday that they will intensify their fight against the Obama administration’s “unjust and illegal” contraception mandate.  The full text of their statement follows:

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A Reagan Forum with Congressman Howard McKeon on Today's Military


A Reagan Forum with Howard McKeon on Wednesday, March 14, 2012.

For more information on the ongoing works of President Reagan's Foundation, please visit www.reaganfoundation.org.


The Faith and Worldview of Rick Santorum

Address to pastors at the Bella Donna Chapel, Dallas, Texas, 2/8/12 
"God created reason, His truth and reason are gonna end up in the same place. We have an obligation as a public official to rigorously advance both. The intolerance of the secular left is a religion unto itself, it's just not a biblically based religion" - Rick Santorum



Cuba's State-Run Television Airs Cardinal's Message in Advance of Pope's Visit



In a rare speech on state-controlled television, Cuba's Catholic cardinal said an upcoming visit by the pope would reignite the religious fervor in the island. 

Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino, the Archbishop of Havana, told viewers that Pope Benedict was visiting the island to "revive a sleeping faith, a somewhat erased faith.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

YES! SANTORUM SWEEPS ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI



Rick Santorum's wins tonight in Alabama and Mississippi, on the heels of wins in so many other battleground states in the American heartland, pose a serious dilemma to an establishment hellbent on foisting a weak and bleeding candidate on the Republican Party.  Do they really want to take responsibility for the debacle that would be a Romney candidacy?  Does it really help to have a candidate who would lose, but by respectable margins in New York, Massachusetts and California, or do they want to beat Barack Hussein Obama where it matters, in the heartland battleground states?

David has confronted Goliath and keeps on winning. Outspent 10 and 12 to 1, Rick Santorum keeps connecting with average Americans who desperately want to save America from a hellish nightmare of debt, dependency, depression and ruin.  It's time -- long past time -- for Gingrich and Romney supporters to recognize there is one conservative candidate, untainted by scandal, whose principled and consistent record offers a stark contrast to the thug regime.  For the sake of America and a free and prosperous future, it is time for Republicans to rally around the candidate who is clearly the people's choice.


More Than Half A Million Christians Ordered to Leave Sudan

From AllAfrica
 

Sudanese Christians who have barely a month to leave the north
or risk being treated as foreigners are starting to move, but Christian leaders are concerned that the 8 April deadline set by Islamic-majority Sudan is unrealistic.

Worldwide Surge in Priestly Vocations Continues


Pope Benedict with the seminarians of England and Wales

The worldwide surge in the number of seminarians that began during the papacy of Blessed John Paul II (1978-2005) is continuing under Pope Benedict.

According to the newly released Annuario Pontificio, the number of major seminarians worldwide rose to 118,990 in 2010--an increase of 86.3% since 1978, when there were 63,882 major seminarians.

Between 1978 and 2010, the number of Catholics rose from 757 million to 1.196 billion (a 58% increase), while world population rose from 4.3 billion to 6.9 billion (a 60.5% increase).

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