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Entitlement believing father of 30 kids asks for government help
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012
Thirty-three-year old Desmond Hatchett of Knoxville Tennessee has a problem. He's fathered 30 kids out of wedlock with at least 11 different women - and he's asking for public and governmental help. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Hatchett has asked the State of Tennessee for a break on his ...
HHS Secretary Sebelius at Georgetown U: Could Scandal be the Seed of Reform?
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012
The commencement address given by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may actually help to bring about the necessary corrective of this Catholic University which has clearly lost its way. Please pray for Georgetown University. And, while you are praying, pray for Kathleen Sebelius to return ...
Buffett buys 63 newspapers
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/20/2012
On Thursday, Warren Buffett kept his promise to buy more newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 daily and weekly newspapers in in the Southeast for roughly $142 million from Media General Inc. of Richmond, Virginia. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, South ...
From Mission Copadanno: Honoring Men and Women Who Serve on Armed Forces Day
By Judy L. McCloskey • Mission Capodanno • 5/19/2012
Those who serve in the armed forces are servants of the security and freedom of nations. If they carry out their duty honorably, they truly contribute to the common good of the nation and the maintenance of peace (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2310) Give to the men and women of the Armed ...
Archbishop Lori: Be Loyal Americans by Being Bold and Courageous Catholics
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/19/2012
We do not seek to defend religious liberty for partisan or political purposes, as some have suggested. No, we do this because we are lovers of a human dignity that was fashioned and imparted not by the government but by the Creator. We defend religious liberty because we are lovers of every human ...
Curious new details in Trayvon Martin case
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/18/2012
New details are emerging in the Trayvon Martin murder case. Prosecutors have released recorded testimony from Trayvon Martin's girlfriend who was with him on the phone when he was killed. Additional reports from the fire department and Martin's autopsy have also been released. MIAMI, FL ...
Obama Forces Franciscan University to Drop Health Insurance Coverage
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/18/2012
The Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover "women's health services" including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing medications. Franciscan University has excluded these services and products from its student health insurance policy will ...
Maternal deathrates fall worldwide
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/17/2012
According to the United Nations, a woman dies every two minutes as a result of complications from childbirth. Excessive bleeding, infection, and abortions are common causes of death. NEW YORK, NY (Catholic Online) - Nearly all of the deaths, some 90 percent, occur in third-world countries according ...
Nation's minority population continues to rise
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/17/2012
Racial and ethnic minorities now make up more than half the children born in the U.S. for the firs time in its history. The latest figures cap decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. The new 2011 census highlights sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup. LOS ANGELES, ...
Bishop William Lori's Homily Before Installation as Archbishop of Baltimore
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/17/2012
The Nation which we love has now been given one more courageous Catholic Bishop in a position of significant leadership at this critical time in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. Archbishop Elect Lori is being installed as the 15th successor of John Carroll, to preside as ...
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