YouTube’s Double Standard?
Friday, September 26, 2008 11:47 AM
An anti-Catholic bias appears to be in place at the popular YouTube Internet video site.
The Headline Bistro news service reported Sept. 26 that “outrage is growing as the site has become home to a string of videos depicting acts of Eucharistic desecration, including flushing a host down the toilet, putting one in a blender, feeding one to animals, shooting one with a nail gun and... READ MORE
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Abortion and Health Care
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:03 AM
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama at last month's presidential debate. (Reuters)
Catholics watching tonight’s presidential debate should pay close attention if the topic of health-care reform comes up.
Why?
Not just because Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama has made the issue a central campaign plank.
But Obama may also intend to use health-care reform as a vehicle to mandate abortion access, according to the Weekly Standard’s blog.
The blog cites comments... READ MORE
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Debating Just War
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:52 AM
Scene from the 1991 movie "Black Hawk Down" about U.S. intervention in Somalia's civil war.
Barack Obama and John McCain touched on a topic in last night’s presidential debate about which the Church is the leading expert: Just War doctrine.
The candidates were asked by moderator Tom Brokaw if “we can establish tonight the Obama doctrine and the McCain doctrine for the use of United States combat forces in situations where there’s a humanitarian crisis, but it does not affect our... READ MORE
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Kmiec’s Contradictions
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:27 PM
Barack Obama at Planned Parenthood conference. (WENN)
Pepperdine law professor Doug Kmiec has earned widespread criticism from prominent Catholics for claiming faithful Catholics can vote for Barack Obama.
Kmiec, who is backing Obama despite his 100% pro-abortion record, says such criticism is unjustified.
He might find it harder to dismiss the arguments of one other prominent Catholic: himself.
In this entry on his Catholic Key blog, Jack... READ MORE
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Waiting for Barack
Friday, October 10, 2008 2:31 PM
National Right to Life ad.
’Fess up, Sen. Obama.
The National Right to Life Committee is demanding a public apology from the Democratic presidential candidate for accusing the pro-life group in August of “lying” about his voting record regarding “born-alive” legislation.
Such legislation mandates provision of medical care for babies who survive abortions.
In an extensively documented exposé posted on the... READ MORE
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Weigel vs. Kmiec et al
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:44 AM
George Weigel (CNS)
George Weigel has provided a detailed rebuttal to recent arguments by some avowedly pro-life Catholics that it’s OK to vote for Sen. Barack Obama.
In a Newsweek commentary posted Oct. 14, the papal biographer and syndicated columnist critiques arguments advanced by three prominent Obama apologists: law professors Doug Kmiec, Nicholas Cafardi and Cathleen Kaveny.
Space doesn’t allow us to... READ MORE
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But What About This, Barack?
Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:18 AM
(AFP)
Sen. Barack Obama finally touched on abortion in the presidential debates last evening.
In last night’s debate, the Democratic presidential candidate glossed over his consistent support for abortion rights, his promise to sign into law the abortion lobby’s Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) legislation as his first act if elected president, and his commitment to nominate only pro-abortion judges to... READ MORE
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