Saturday, January 17, 2009

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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac

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LIFE ISSUES

Nation's First Government-Funded Abortion Alternatives Program Serves Over 150,000 Women Since 1995
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/802899137.html

Genetic tests for all - the new approach to preventive medicine
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5485233.ece

Canadian MP Rod Bruinooge: Status quo on abortion not good enough
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/Have_Your_Say01102009.html

Abortion Past: The untold story of how movement shifted focus, changed its image, and saved lives by Marvin Olasky
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14862

Having babies is... SEXIST!!!
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/01/11/having-babies-is-sexist.php

Couples Tempted by IVF Face a Number of Moral Dilemmas
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo6/6bluett.php

Take Part in CWA of Georgia's FOCA Walk-in/Phone-in on Thursday, January 22, 2009
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/16241/FIELD/life/index.htm

The Problem of "Biological Colonialism"
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/01/problem-of-biological-colonialism.html

Chinese women oppose one-child-policy, want more children
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14234&size=A

The Death Bureaucracy Begins in Washington State
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/01/let-death-bureaucracy-begin-in.html


US POLITICS

Pro-Lifers Brace for New Congress - 111th Congress Promises Abortion-Funding Battles On Top of Economic Crisis - "It's getting back to pure, organic grassroots politics, which is the upside of losing miserably."
http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/16996/

President-elect Barack Obama is horribly reminiscent of Tony Blair in 1997. He may be a fantastic guy, and look great, but he will bring a ragbag of scuzzballs, communists and eco-loons to power with him - The Spectator
http://www.spectator.co.uk/i//the-magazine/features/3233531/i-have-seen-your-future-america-and-it-doesnt-work.thtml

New Hampshire bishop reflects on Inauguration's ironies of racial advancement and pro-life setbacks
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14794

Barack Shuns Catholic Prayers
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/obama_shuns_catholic_prayers/

Prof. Kmiec accuses 'right wing' Catholic bloggers of character assassination - Blames them for potentially "poisoning" Vatican-Obama relationship
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14755

Rick Warren praises Obama for inviting homosexual bishop
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=387426

Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was "horrified" at how "specifically and aggressively Christian they were."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/01/gay_bishop_may_pray_to_the_god.asp

Obama climate czar has socialist ties - Group sees 'global governance' as solution
Mrs. Browner's name and biography removed from Socialist International's Web page
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/

Jindal to GOP: Repent! by Cal Thomas - "We've got to consistently oppose corruption in our own party," said Jindal. "It's not enough to make excuses that 'the other side does it.'"
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/01/13/jindal_to_gop_repent!?page=
1

With the humiliating failures of the prolife cause, it's difficult to see how the 2008 election could not be considered a referendum on abortion.
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=0109-notes-where

Palin Fascination, Scorn Shows No Sign of Receding
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/13/palin-fascination-scorn-shows-sign-receding/

Olbermann: Unlike Palin, Pitbull Can Be Trained to 'Occasionally Keep Its Mouth Closed'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/01/14/olbermann-unlike-palin-pitbull-can-be-trained-occasionally-keep-its-m


MORE ON FR. NEUHAUS

See Excellent 10 minute Dec. 2007 CBC television piece on Neuhaus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFwMZKtHiaE

Father Neuhaus died just before the start of a new presidential administration that he anticipated with foreboding by Rev. George W. Rutler
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5207&Itemid=48

Richard John Neuhaus, A gaping hole in the public square by Joseph Bottum
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/991hhmaf.asp

Fr. Neuhaus on the "reckless use" of the term "homophobia"
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/01/fr-neuhaus-on-the-reckless-use-of-the-term-homophobia.html

Neuhaus the Educator
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/neuhaus_the_educator/


RELIGION

Vatican suggests excommunicating Mexican drug traffickers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-vatican-mexico13-2009jan13,0,499152.story

New chair of US bishops' National Review Board is Obama donor
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=1607

In Jesuit magazine, Chief-Rabbi of Venice: Pope has cancelled 50 years of Church History
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/01/in-jesuit-magazine-chief-rabbi-of.html

UK Roman Catholic church marriages fall by 24pc since 2000
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4176963/Roman-Catholic-church-marriages-fall-by-24-since-2000.html

John Smeaton Birthday wish for Notorious Sir Stephen Wall, Cardinal Murphy O'Connor's former adviser
http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/01/birthday-wish-for-sir-stepen-wall.html

Cormac Card. Murphy-O'Connor's Diocese of Westminster is forcing London Catholic school to loosen admissions criteria so the school can no longer give preference to children from practising Catholic families.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/01/13/catholic_lefties_wont_be_happy_until_theyve_destroyed_the_cardinal_vaughan_school

UK Catholic parents call Catholic Education Service "arrogant" and "undemocratic"
http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2009/01/catholic-parents-call-catholic.html

U.S. Bishops' pro-life office corrects 'misleading' FOCA novena message
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14766

The Economist: Darwin is God!
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/01/the-economist-darwin-is-god.html

Too much Eckhart takes its Tolle...... on the brain cells.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/01/too-much-eckhart-takes-its-tolle.html

London Muslim protesters attack police: "Run, you cowards! Kuffar!"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024365.php

Oslo: Jihadists use children as human shields during violent anti-Israel demonstration
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024357.php

Europe Reimports Jew Hatred - The mythical Arab Street now reaches deep into Paris, London, Berlin and Madrid - Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123180033807075069.html

London demonstrators against Israel depict "the Jew" eating dead babies
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/01/14/london_demonstrators_against_israel_depict_the_jew_eating_dead_babies

Muslims to apologise for prayers held in front of Milan cathedral
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/09/muslim-prayers-milan-cathedral

The head of the Jesuit order for the Northwest on Thursday denied the allegation in a new lawsuit that Alaska became a magnet or hiding place for problem priests
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/655551.html

Christian refuses to drive "No God" bus
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2AMj4DnuWJpC3gMtGKVbiQDmbng


HOMOSEXUALITY

Tom Hanks, New McCarthyite - says supporters of California's Proposition 8, defining marriage as between one man and one woman, are "un-American." Hanks is a producer for the HBO series "Big Love,"  which promotes polyamory by normalizing it.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127

Family advocacy group announces Pepsi boycott
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=379832

SPIDER-MAN creator Stan Lee is to unveil the world's first gay superhero.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/article2128530.ece

Gay Marriage Advocates have posted maps online that very clearly show the addresses of those who donated money to the Prop 8 cause (supporting traditional marriage), including even small donors who gave $50 or less.
http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/319269.asp


MISCELLANEOUS

Blair reappears as choice to be EU president
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c919a4b4-e04a-11dd-9ee9-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc919a4b4-e04a-11dd-9ee9-000077b07658.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ft.com%2Fsearch%3FqueryText%3Dblair%2Breappears

New poll shows 64 percent of UK voters want looser relationship with EU
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4214369/Loosen-Britains-ties-with-European-Union-say-two-thirds-of-voters..html

Will German homeschooling parents end up behind bars? Appeals court tosses 1st sentence, orders new trial
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85747

Value of 2008 Bailouts Exceeds Combined Costs of All Major U.S. Wars
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40964

Economists Say Bush 'Chucked' Free Market Principles Long Before Financial Crisis
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41867

CNN Segment Warns of the Coming Ice Age
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/01/14/cnn-segment-warns-coming-ice-age

Kissinger Again Calls for a New World Order
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/12/opinion/edkissinger.php

Ten of the world's top banks accused of laundering money for Iran
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/01/10/2009-01-10_ten_of_the_worlds_top_banks_accused_of_l-2.html?ref=nl&nltr_ct=1&nltr_id=Top%20banks%20accused%20of%20laundering%20money%20for%20Iran

How the Canadian public lost faith in politics - Negative campaign, incivility behind voter disillusionment
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/public+lost+faith+politics/1167266/story.html


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