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Contraception, Abortion, and now Euthanasia: Demographics is Destiny.by Brian Kopp, DPM The historical and universal Christian prohibition on contraception, which dates back to the Apostles, was first shaken by the Anglican Church's 1930 Lambeth Conference, the first Christian body ever to condone contraception. Although the Anglicans limited contraception to what they termed exceptional cases, they cracked open a door that had previously been tightly shut. Within three decades, most Protestant denominations had abandoned the universal Christian prohibition against contraception and, by the early 1970s, much of Eastern Orthodoxy had dropped its prohibition on barrier methods.   The connection between the...

Catholic College Disinvites Pro-Abortion Politician at Request of Bishop Life IssuesMay 4th, 2012 Matthew Archbold For the second time this commencement season, a pro-abortion rights commencement speaker had their invitation rescinded at the request of the local bishop.On Friday, State Representative Democrat Bob Hagan’s reported pro-abortion rights stand led the Youngstown campus of Mercy College of Ohio to rescind its invitation for him to speak at the school’s commencement ceremony on Tuesday at the public urging of Bishop George Murry, S.J..Bishop Murry released a statement regarding his decision. “It recently came to my attention, without any proper review by my office, that the Mercy School...

Laura Ingraham is back. I'm glad that the sometimes correct but whiny Tammy Bruce isn't guest hosting today. While Tammy is less obnoxious than the average pro-abortion lesbian feminazi, it does bother me that a supposedly pro-life, pro-marriage devout Catholic like Laura would allow Tammy to be her guest host when she's gone. It would be like Tammy allowing a pro-life Christian to guest host her local talk show to advocating positions on life and the natural family contrary to hers. Why doesn't Laura pick a guest host that agrees with her on these issues?

Notes "intolerant secularism’ prevalent in our nation"ST. LOUIS, June 24, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Raymond L. Burke has spoken out in defense of Catholic priests and bishops refusing communion to pro-abortion Catholic politicians in a column titled Catholic Politicians and Bishops. He states that, although the refusal by a pastor or bishop to distribute holy Communion to anyone is a “source of great sorrow . . . What would be profoundly more sorrowful would be the failure of a bishop to call a soul to conversion, the failure to protect the flock from scandal and the failure to safeguard the...