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Cardinal Ratzinger's Thoughts on Evolution An Excerpt From "Truth and Tolerance" ROME, SEPT. 1, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn's July 7 editorial in the New York Times entitled "Finding Design in Nature" provoked a flurry of reactions, both supportive and critical. Requests have begun to arrive in Rome for Benedict XVI to make some sort of clarification on the Church's stand regarding evolution. The following text, delivered in 1999 as part of a lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Benedict XVI) and subsequently published in the 2004 book "Truth and Tolerance" (Ignatius), can give...

"Jobs Americans won't do" By: RICK REISS - Commentary Temecula has become an epicenter in the debate on illegal immigration. Last year, the Temecula Border Patrol station conducted numerous sweeps of illegal immigrants throughout the region. Political pressure quickly ended this operation. To his chagrin, a top Homeland Security official later faced an outraged public for shutting down these sweeps. Public outrage over the federal government's failure to control immigration spawned the creation of voluntary citizen patrols along the border. One such Minuteman Project effort just recently finished in Campo. A similar border watch project is scheduled for the Otay...

Friday, Dec. 20, 2002 Newsmax Inside Cover Keene, Weyrich: Not So Fast on Frist Sen. Trent Lott's resignation as majority leader doesn't surprise two leading conservatives, who oppose the rush to replace him with Sen. Bill Frist. "It was difficult to see how he could have survived after he had been attacked both by the political and ideological enemies on the one hand, and deserted by his friends on the other,” and "apparently incapable of defending himself effectively,” American Conservative Union President David Keene told NewsMax.com. "Thank goodness, they were able to get him to agree to stay in the...