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Officials say that 33-year-old Desmond Hatchett, the father of 30 children with 11 women, hasn't broken any laws and that there's nothing they can do to keep him from fathering any more.

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 ...

Media General originated as a newspaper company in Richmond in 1850.

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 ...

A military chaplain: Men and women who serve our Nation should be honored

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 William Lori at the installation

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 ...

This image shows that Zimmerman clearly sustained injuries to the back of his head.

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 ...

The UN applauds the progress that has been made, but is looking for more.

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 ...

The recent slowdown in the growth of the Hispanic and Asian populations is changing attitudes on when the tipping point in U.S. diversity will come, i.e. the time when non-Hispanic whites become a minority.

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 ...