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Israeli leaders accept the prospect of going it alone and demonstrating their resolve at a time when their security has been undermined by the Arab Spring.

Panetta: 'Strong possibility' Israel will strike Iran's nuclear installations in spring

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/3/2012

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta fears that there is a "strong possibility" that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear installations this spring. According to the Washington Post, when Panetta was asked about the possibility, "I'm not going to comment on that. David Ignatius can write what ...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation Backs Down to Planned Parenthood Bullying

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/3/2012

I have long contended there is a connection between abortion on demand and the increase of bullying. Planned Parenthood has proven this point. Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has backed down in the face of Planned Parenthood bullying. We have lost the sense of the dignity of every human ...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure does wonderful work. They should be commended for their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood

Pro-Life Victory: Susan B. Komen for the Cure Defunds Planned Parenthood

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/3/2012

When Planned Parenthood receives a grant or a subsidy, it may argue that it uses that particular money for a purpose other than the taking of innocent life, but the argument is a ruse. The very fact that the money came in allows other funds to be used for providing abortions. It is a deadly shell ...

Religious Freedom is a fundamental human right

Catholic Resistance Must be the Response to the Unjust HHS Edict to Violate Conscience

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/3/2012

The Catholics Bishops of the United States have asked the faithful to pray, fast and engage in Catholic Action. This is in response to the unjust edict demanding that Catholic hospitals and institutions dispense contraceptives (some of which are abortifacients) ...

Darden Restaurants employs 179,000 workers in 1,900 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Longhorn Steaks are among the chains eateries under its umbrella. The 'culprit restaurant' named in the suit is Capital Grille, the finest and most expensive of Darden's restaurants.

World's largest restaurant chain faces lawsuit for 'kitchen nightmares'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/2/2012

Darden Restaurants, the largest full-service restaurant group in the world is facing a lawsuit that alleges the company practices widespread racial discrimination and illegal labor practices. Darden Restaurants employs 179,000 workers in 1,900 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Olive Garden, ...

The womb is the first home of the whole human race

Killed in Their First Home, Their Mothers Womb : The Diary of an Unborn Child

By Fr. Bernhard Speringer • Catholic Online • 2/2/2012

There are over one million children killed in-utero every year in the United States. They are half of the casualties of the war on the womb. The other half are the mothers and fathers who live with the hidden wounds that our culture of death insists do not even exist. 2012 will be ...

A rising Catholic tide of resistance may determine the outcome of the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election.

A Rising Catholic Tide of Resistance May Determine the U.S. Presidential Election

By Keith A. Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/2/2012

Catholics in the United States are rising up in a Tide of Resistance to the unjust actions and edicts of the Obama Administration. They might determine the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election in the United States. That is if they act in a manner which, in the words of the Vatican Congregation ...

Pope Sends Condolences on the Death of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012

We ask our global readers to pray for the repose of the soul of Cardinal Bevilaqua and the comfort of his family and friends upon his loss. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace, Amen. PHILADELPHIA,PA. (Catholic Online) VIS) - The ...

The Congressional Budget Office report also says that annual U.S. deficits will remain in the $1 trillion range for the next several years, if Bush-era tax cuts slated to expire in December are extended.

U.S. deficit falls slightly - but still far too high

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/31/2012

It's slightly lower than last year - but still far too high. A new budget report this week predicts the U.S. government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends this September. That figure is a slight dip from last year, remains perilously high by any measure. A ...

Sheldon Adelson and his Israeli-born wife Miriam have pumped $10 million in the last three weeks into the Winning Our Future Super PAC. The cash has provided crucial cash infusion that helped revive Newt Gingrich's candidacy, bankrolling attack ads against Mitt Romney in South Carolina and now Florida.

'Joe Kennedy helped his son,' Gingrich funder says

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/27/2012

Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who is bankrolling Newt Gingrich's super PAC to the tune of $10 million, says he isn't trying to "buy" a presidency. Adelson says he's just following in the footsteps of another powerful business tycoon, Joseph Kennedy, father of President John F. ...