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O'Malley heartened, worried by election
Forty years ago, in the weeks just after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a young friar named Sean O'Malley joined thousands of other civil rights activists in a rainy vigil on the National ...
Restricting Freedoms and Choices
As the financial sector continues its tailspin despite efforts to bail out Wall Street, among the few gainers in recent stock trading have been those companies looking for a new "shot in the arm" with ...
NPR Examines Efforts By Religious Right To Regroup After Election Setbacks
NPR's " All Things Considered " on Thursday examined reactions from conservative religious leaders to the victory of President-elect Barack Obama and his plans for issues such as abortion rights and embryonic ...
What effect did abortion positions have in the presidential election?
There have been a trillion words written about Palin, the McCain campaign suspension-bailout effort, and the slick professionalism of Obama's campaign, but I've seen almost nothing on whether pro-life or ...
Tiller's lawyers to question Kline, Morrison
Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline and Paul Morrison will face questioning next week by lawyers representing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller.Kline, who pursued Tiller for years while Kansas ...
Obama seen likely to renew funds for birth control clinics
Among a slew of executive orders Barack Obama is said to be drafting, observers believe one may lift a ban on US funding for overseas family planning groups that even dare mention abortion.
SC Diocese Critical of Priest's Obama Comments
The state's Roman Catholic Diocese says a South Carolina priest should not have told parishioners who voted for President-elect Barack Obama to refrain from taking Holy Communion because of his stance on ...
Obama Can Lead Way To Common Ground On Abortion
Of course, President-elect Barack Obama 's most urgent task is to repair an ailing economy.
Ann Coulter: GOP doesn't need election advice from the liberals
For the first time in 32 years, Democrats got more than 50 percent of the country to vote for their candidate in a national election, and now they want to lecture the Republican Party on how to win elections.
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez, a doctor, said the government...
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez vetoed a law decriminalizing abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, arguing it violated the right to life, the office of the presidency said on Friday.
Women's Voting Patterns in Election 2008
The American people do not agree with its issues and positions Continuing a pattern established in the 2000 elections, married women supported the conservative, pro-life candidate for President while unmarried ...
Diocese criticizes priest's comment
COLUMBIA A Roman Catholic priest should not have told parishioners who voted for President-elect Barack Obama to refrain from taking Holy Communion because of his stance in support of abortion, the church's ...
Obama likely to push courts away from right
President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary's shift to the right under President George W. ...
SC Catholic Priest Makes Firm Post-Election Doctrinal Statement on Abortion and Voting
Why wasn't there more of this before the election? The headline at a Greenville, SC News story carried at USA Today says, "Priest urges penance for Obama voters." Father Jay Scott Newman is actually demanding ...
US bishops warn Obama on abortion... 10:01
Comment about "US bishops warn Obama on abortion issues " Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 13th November 2008 - 10:01CET US bishops warn Obama on abortion issues US Catholic bishops told President-elect Barack ...
Abortion Politics Isna t Saving Lives
Abortion has been a hot-button political issue since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which has resulted in more than 46 million abortions.
By now you've probably heard: The GOP is becoming too regional, too white, too old to compete at a national level.
LifeNews reported Meeting on the second day of their annual conference, the nation's Catholic bishops urged an aggressive campaign to oppose the pro-abortion bill expected to be the centerpiece of the Barack ...