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I could not believe my eyes when I read Providence, Rhode Island’s Bishop Thomas Tobin’s weekly column entitled “Without a doubt: My R.S.V.P. to Rudy Giuliani”

A recent news report caught my eye because the British are actually admitting, at long last, that mothers who abort their children suffer tragic consequences including many who take their lives.

A few days ago I joined with several pro-life leaders in signing an ad that focused attention on Dr. James Dobson and other Christian leaders who had celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision in the Gonzales v. Carhart case.

A bill that has just passed the Illinois state legislature and awaits the governor’s signature once again defies logic and deceives the public. Senate Bill 4 permits funding for human embryonic stem cell research and permits “therpaeutic cloning” while banning “reproductive cloning.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor of California seems to have lost touch with his identity as a Catholic-again.

I continue to be amazed at how the media sets forth the results of various polls as some sort of moral barometer, or guide to how the rest of us should think.

A recent story on St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke and his consistent defense of Catholic teaching exposes the difficulty many reporters have in seeing the difference between courage and controversy.

It is actually no surprise that Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian is once again giving interviews now that he is being relieved of his jail time due to health problems.