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Governor Cuomo, Wake Up and Stop Insulting Christ It's a tragedy to see any Catholic blatantly oppose Church teaching and then receive the body of Jesus as if there is no scandal associated in that. Yet it is even more disturbing to see that happen with Catholic politicians. This is occurring more and more frequently today-and it is often met with silence from the pulpit. Today's commentary focuses on one such individual and implores the bishops in his diocese to stand up for the sanctity of Christ in the Eucharist. [ Read the full interview here. ]
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| Three Louisiana abortion clinics cited for failure to report child rape Jill Stanek Three of Louisiana's seven abortion clinics have been cited by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals for failure to report suspected child rape. The LDHH complaints against Causeway Medical Clinic, Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge, and Gentilly Medical Clinic for Women (now shut down) were revealed in court documents filed June 15 by LDHH, the Louisiana Attorney General, the Louisiana Department of Justice, and Alliance Defense Fund to dismiss a 3rd* lawsuit waged by 5 Louisiana abortion mills challenging Act 490, a law passed in June 2010 to enhance abortion clinic health and safety regulations with a "zero tolerance policy" for certain infractions. Two of those clinics were among those reprimanded by LDHH for failing to report suspected child rape to authorities, as mandated by law. |
| DC funded 300 abortions in 2 years Forbes
For decades Congress has used its power over the District of Columbia to ban the city from paying for abortions for poor women, but during a two-year period when lawmakers reversed course at least 300 women got city-funded procedures, according to data obtained by The Associated Press. That period when the city was free to pay for abortions ended earlier this year. The city now says that during that time it spent approximately $185,000 providing elective abortions for poor women who receive health care through government programs. The number of women who got abortions and their cost was provided by city officials after AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request. | | US Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services Urge Congress to Keep World's Poorest in Mind in Reducing the Nation's Debt and Deficit PR Web Morally appropriate efforts must be made to reduce the nation's deficit and debt but special care must be taken that the cuts don't disproportionally affect the world's poorest people, said Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, and Ken Hackett, president of Catholic Relief Services, in a July 5 letter to the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs as it prepares to mark up the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2012. In the letter, Bishop Hubbard and Mr. Hackett note that the enacted FY 2011 Foreign Affairs budget already cut these life-saving programs by an average of 8.4% from FY 2010 and affirm that "further cuts would be disproportionate and life-threatening to the world's poorest people." | |
