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Could you find a better Catholic to honor than Senator Dick Durbin? Durbin sought legislation to force organizations to provide contraceptives among its health care benefits – even if such a mandate opposed an organization's beliefs (like, maybe, nuns).
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After the mass shooting two weeks ago that killed 17 at a high school in Parkland, Florida, gun advocate Chris Waltz said the murderer's weapon, a semi-automatic rifle, was not to blame. "It's not a rifle problem," he said in a recent Associated Press
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Welcome to Lent. It's a time that brings out, as one young priest told me, all the A&P Catholics. Ashes and palms.
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As a father, I realize the humbling responsibility. Is there a bigger vocation? Screw up the job and you likely screw up the kids. The answer is not in being perfect, but being present; give your time – special time.
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Steven Spielberg is supposed to direct the movie, if it is ever made. Apparently, the movie was delayed because Spielberg jumped into making The Post. Now, there is no production schedule for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. If it is produced, the movie will become a ripe opportunity to criticize
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I grew up in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, as did my mother in the 1920s and '30s. To her family's chagrin, my mother married a Northerner and, worse, a Catholic. My father had his faults, but he was rock-solid in one way – his abhorrence of
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At one of the many Planned Parenthood rallies in Portland, Maine, this one in 2015, a nurse practitioner for the organization spoke, making it clear that "a few white men" were not going to interfere with her work. I disagree with her work. But, what do you expect.
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Darn. How did I miss the Golden Globe Awards? But then again, do you miss something when you never planned to watch them in the first place?