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June 27, 2011 (AlbertMholer.com) - The legal, social, moral, and political maps of America were redefined last Friday night as the New York State Senate voted 33-29 to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. The State Assembly had already approved…

June 24, 2011 (Breakpoint.org) - I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving his wife. I was shocked and disappointed. How could this man, committed to both his spouse and his…

June 24, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As if the Church of England does not have enough troubles, word is leaking out of Lambeth Palace that the church is about to allow the appointment of openly gay bishops, so long as those bishops remain celibate.

GENEVA, June 23, 2011 (C-FAM) - “Gay rights have arrived at the United Nations as of today,” proclaimed a senior U.S. official during a triumphant briefing.  Her boss, Hilary Clinton, called it a “historic moment” for “lesbian, gay,…

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The race for the GOP nomination to confront President Obama has consisted of plenty of yawns with brief moments of intense excitement. But the political sands are shifting, and much is new in…

June 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Those engaged in the fight against cancer are always looking for risk factors – behaviors which make one person more likely to have cancer than another. A study published in May, 2011 in the journal Cancer,…

Note: Tom Brejcha is the president of the Thomas More Pro-Life Legal Society.

June 20, 2011 (ThomsMoreSociety.org) - A key part of Planned Parenthood’s counterattack against Lila Rose’s youth-led group, Live Action, and its staggered release…

June 20, 2011 (Breakpoint.org) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a., “Dr. Death,” died earlier this month in a hospital in Royal Oaks, Michigan. He was eighty-three.

The location of his death is worth noting, because while he died in a hospital, many…

June 20, 2011 (AlbertMohler.com) - Is President Obama about to endorse same-sex marriage? The possibility was the subject of open speculation on the front page of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg quoted an…

June 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When I was a child growing up in Toronto, life was grand.  While there was family discord, my dad, Henry Westen, was like a rock.

My late father was a devout and faithful Catholic who attended daily Mass and…

June 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On June 13, 2011 the New York City Department of Health revealed that over half of the city’s abortions are repeat procedures.  Nationwide the Alan Guttmacher Institute tells us the rate is 47%.  Sadly, it is not…

June 16, 2011 (CatholicCulture.org) - In 1966, Massachusetts became the last state in the U.S. to legalize the sale of contraceptives. When the state legislative voted to repeal the law prohibiting their sale, the Planned Parenthood League of…

June 16, 2011 (Breakpoint.org) - What is the case of Anthony Weiner really all about? Well, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has an insightful and profound take on the whole sorry affair.

Douthat writes, “In the sad case of Rep. Anthony…

June 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The stripes of the rainbow surround us. Little decals on storefronts, triangular logos on the noticeboards of liberal churches, flags, bumper stickers. Pro-family folk may feel positively screamed at: “Diversity!…