Monday, February 20, 2012

Heroic News: “US bishop reflects on call to 'suffer for and with' one's flock” plus 8 more

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US bishop reflects on call to 'suffer for and with' one's flock

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Posted: 20 Feb 2012 12:02 PM PST

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades watched from Rome with disappointment as President Barack Obama announced his “accommodation” to the contraception mandate last week. But that news reinforced for him that being a bishop today is about lovingly suffering for and with your flock.

Surrogate mother will keep her baby, despite abortion pressure

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Posted: 20 Feb 2012 10:26 AM PST

The surrogate mother in question is facing enormous uncertainties and potentially high legal and medical costs, not to mention the emotional and physical stresses of standing against the wishes of the biological parents and being pregnant with a child who is not biologically her own who doctors say may be seriously ill.

Planned Parenthood and Komen: Future Funding Remains in Question

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Posted: 20 Feb 2012 09:45 AM PST

Last year, activist Lila Rose of Live Action contacted 30 Planned Parenthood facilities in 27 states. Not one location performed mammograms.

Chinese forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng is seriously ill

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Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:38 AM PST

Women's Rights Without Frontiers has received credible reports that Chen Guangcheng is seriously ill, and other members of his family are languishing as well.

Joe Paterno vs The Homosexual Lobby

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:15 AM PST

The firing of Joe Paterno is to distract us from the fact that the predations of Jerry Sandusky were homosexual. If he were a heterosexual, his victims would have been girls. Now a supporter vows to clear Paterno's name by having every Penn State trustee apologize and then resign.

True love story behind 'The Vow'

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Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:57 AM PST

Real-life couple from the newly released blockbuster, 'The Vow,' says it 'would have been nice' to see Christian references in film.

Judge orders Boy Scouts to turn over files in sex-abuse case

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:55 AM PST

A judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the family of a California boy molested by his troop leader in 2007 has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to hand over confidential files detailing allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders around the nation.

4 year-old British boy lives as girl in state-backed 'Gender Identiy Disorder'

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:45 AM PST

A little boy who decided he was a girl trapped in a boy's body has become one of the youngest-ever children to have his decision backed by the NHS - aged just four.

Sex change 'treatments' for children on the rise

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST

A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them damaging sex-changing 'treatments,' according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.