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Sports Villa Joseph Marie girls’ soccer team scores nationally Profile: Director of Respect Life Office: ‘This is God’s work’ Cheering up a crying child in a Catholic school yard, journeying with families whose children are suffering from cancer, and poring over the fine points of a living will with a senior citizen are among the many ways the new director of the archdiocesan Respect Life Office has personally embraced the sanctity of life. |
This Week's Issue The Word Became Flesh Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here. Temple University exhibition Reality of ‘choice’ in photos As presidential candidates begin their scheduled debate in Philadelphia on Oct. 30, likely fielding questions about the War in Iraq, another debate about a different battle will be held a few blocks away. Schindler
family responds to Vatican clarification
The family of Terri Schindler Schiavo is rejoicing over the Vatican’s recent clarification of the 2004 allocution by Pope John Paul II, which prohibited the removal of food and water from patients in a permanent vegetative state (PVS). Making
the movie ‘Bella’: Lighting a candle in the heart
Sometimes the most extraordinary events in life take place in the most ordinary ways. That is the case with “Bella,” a movie that weaves a seemingly ordinary tale about a cook and a waitress in a New York City restaurant. Haunted by ‘the child you can’t see … ’ The scene keeps playing over and over again in his head, in one, continuous loop. Pope decries rise of ‘designer babies’ The growing obsession with biotechnology that can create “the perfect child” is ushering in a “new wave of eugenic discrimination,” Pope Benedict XVI warned in an address to the 13th general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Abortion-reduction bill flawed Pro-life Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives recently put together a $647 million initiative that is intended to reduce abortions. However, details of H.R. 1074, also known as the “Reducing the Need for Abortions and Supporting Parents Act,” show that at least $27.7 million will be spent to increase contraception use among the poor. |
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