What will emerge from a secret meeting of American billionaires about reducing population in the Third World?

I am not a fan of conspiracy theories. I do not believe that there is a monolithic cabal plotting to take over planet earth. But plenty of energetic people are hatching grandiose schemes. And when you put a bunch of these folks in the same room behind closed doors you end up with trouble.
Of course [...]

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Holding up a mirror to perversity

Would that philistines today still reacted to contemporary art with merriment, and how very innocent the once-sophisticated term “abstract” now seems. Rather than laughing in galleries nowadays, ordinary folks are more inclined to head for the vomitorium.
The Metropolitan Museum in New York opened a Francis Bacon show last week. Bacon, who died in 1992, was [...]

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New Gardasil guide available now!

In recent months we have been contacted by parents and others seeking information about the new Gardasil vaccine. To meet this demand we have produced a new guide for parents that can now be downloaded free from our website.
Our new guide combines various information about the Gardasil vaccine into one easy to access document, which [...]

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Families Commission is a colossal waste of time and money, and its $9 million budget could be far better spent elsewhere – Latta

The Families Commission is a colossal waste of time and money, and its $9 million budget could be far better spent elsewhere.
That’s according to clinical psychologist Nigel Latta, who spoke on violence at two meetings in Timaru yesterday.
Mr Latta waded into the commission during his hour-long talk, mocking the “startling and amazing” revelations from its [...]

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The final update from our interns

Hi there!
Today, we are going home to Auckland, after completing an amazing 6 week
Pro-life internship.  The time we have spent in Christchurch with FLI has
been truly phenomenal.  We have learnt so much about the Pro-life work that
FLI do and have really come to appreciate and love the community here.
While we have been here we have [...]

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Were Views of Pro-Life Notre Dame Officials, Professors Suppressed?

According to Freddoso, “even some university administrators sympathized, with a handful of recognizable figures attending ND Response events over the weekend. Few wanted to discuss the issue publicly, however. ‘It has been made clear that dissenting publicly won’t be tolerated,’ said one administrator who requested anonymity.”
If accurate, these testimonials make one wonder if an atmosphere [...]

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France Considering Allowing Midwives to Perform Chemical Abortions

The government of France is considering passing into law an amendment that would make it legal for midwives to administer RU-486, also known as the “abortion pill.”  According to reports the pro-abortion lobby is pushing for this law to be passed in the wake of a decrease in interest from physicians in becoming abortionists.
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Novak on Vatican Newspaper: “We asked Rome for Bread they Give us Stones”

For several weeks now, L’Osservatore Romano has published glowing, star-struck, teenage praise of Pres. Barack Obama, while blithely ignoring what its praise means in the American context. It fails to grasp the full threat Obama poses for the American Catholic conscience. Several leading American bishops are distraught, and have asked for help: L’Osservatore Romano must [...]

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California Supreme Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban

The California Supreme Court has rejected all constitutional challenges to Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment to the state constitution that upholds the definition of marriage as the union between a man and a woman.  However the high court’s ruling preserves intact the marriage licenses issued to 18,000 homosexuals by the state of California before [...]

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Family urgently needs protection during economic crisis, Benedict XVI says

Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to a crowd of 20,000 people on Sunday, emphasized the need for leaders to give their attention to families, which are urgently in need of better protection because of the economic crisis.
Full story here

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