Researchers at Oregon Health and Sciences University say they have created human embryos with genes taken from one man and two women for the purpose of preventing babies from inheriting rare diseases, but the technique has set off a fierce ethics debate.
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“To pray the Rosary for children, and even more, with children, training them from their earliest years to experience this daily ‘pause for prayer’ with the family, is admittedly not the solution to every problem, but it is a spiritual aid which should not be underestimated.” - Pope John Paul II
For Reflection:
Does my family “pause for prayer” together? What problem is assailing my family today, cultural or otherwise? Can we begin, if we haven’t already begun, to pray the Rosary together for a solution? What is one way I can initiate this effort or what is one way I can increase my family’s prayer of it?
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In an interview with the Catholic News Service (CNS), Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput minced no words when advising Catholic voters that their loyalty must be to God and the Church first when it comes to hot button issues such as abortion.
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One of the best ways to strengthen faith is to study the lives of the saints, and the U.S. Bishops have selected 10 saints to start with as the Year of Faith begins.
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A legal battle is brewing in California where an attorney representing parents of students in the Encinitas Union School District are calling upon the school to stop teaching yoga or face legal action.
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“The Holy Rosary, by age-old tradition,
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In what many are calling a "smoking gun" today, e-mails leaked by an anonymous source indicate that the White House knew that the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi was terrorist related just two hours after the assault began, contradicting claims by the Obama Administration that the incident was the result of an anti-Muslim film.
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Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, is urging pro-life voters to focus on getting people out to the polls during these last two weeks before Election Day.
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The most recent abortion data from the Centers for Disease Control and the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that a majority of women who had abortions were using contraception at the time, were poor, unmarried, and in their 20s and 30s.
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The international media was buzzing last week with a story about a new UK sperm bank named
Fame Daddy that planned to offer women a chance to have the child of a famous athlete or movie star. Fortunately, the whole story was a hoax.
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