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Many conservative House Democrats threatened to withhold support for the president's health care reforms if the measure called for spending federal dollars on abortions.

Federal funds for abortions stir activism

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/20/2010

States using the new health care laws to fund abortions - in spite of the Obama's administration's attempts to cease the practice, is being eagerly snatched up by pro-life forces who intend to use the issue in the upcoming midterm elections. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Health and Human ...

Amber Nicklas was snatched when her foster parents took her for a court-arranged meeting with her mother at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant seven years ago.

Mystery deepens around missing girl found 7 years later

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/16/2010

A girl who was abducted from a California restaurant at the age of 13 months has been found safe, sound and happy - speaking Romanian. Now seven years old, her time away from her family is the subject of much mystery and inquiry . LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Little Amber Nicklas was found ...

A New Mexico health insurance program, The New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool (NMNIP) has dropped elective abortion from its list of covered procedures.

New Mexico insurance company drops abortion

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/16/2010

A New Mexico health insurance program, The New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool (NMNIP) has dropped elective abortion from its list of covered procedures. The company had been the subject of media inquiry and criticism by pro-life groups as the procedures had been covered by federal funds. LOS ...

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Love & Relationship

'Dear Christian families, proclaim joyfully to the whole world the wonderful treasure which you, as domestic churches, possess!' -- Venerable Pope John Paul II.

The Most Holy Trinity: Supreme Model for Family And Marriage

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

The importance of the family cannot be overstressed. The Church considers the family as 'the first natural society,' and "places it at the center of social life" (CSDC No. 211). John Paul II observed in Christifideles Laici that the family is presented, in the Creator's plan, as 'the primary place ...

You and I are precious to His heart and worth the price of His own blood. Any feeling or thought or voice that says,

Inspire: Unfailing Love and a Heart Like Mine

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 4/25/2010

You and I are loved beyond our comprehension. No language exists that can capture the quality of His love for us and the lengths to which He has gone to rescue His lost children. Only the Word Himself can say it. He who owed me nothing at all, who had nothing to prove, patiently and ...

A failure to communicate

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 2/24/2010

There are countless reasons as to why marriages fail. Marital infidelity, physical and mental abuse, sexual incompatibly and financial problems are just the tip of the iceberg. According to author Sonal Panse, the leading cause of divorce is a lack of communication. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

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Living Faith

Haitian mom reunited with missing baby

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/29/2010

A Haitian mother who feared that her baby girl had been killed in a massive earthquake six months ago has been tearfully reunited with her child. "I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock," the eight-month-old infant's mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told ...

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada formally requests an Anglican Ordinariate for Canada.

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada Votes Overwhelmingly to Unite with Rome

Virtue on Line • 7/29/2010

Catholic Online has covered with great faith, enthusiasm and attention to detail the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit arising out of the promulgation of "On the Gathering of the Anglicans" The Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus. SURREY, BC (Virtue Online) - Catholic Online has covered ...

A fragment of a cuneiform tablet, found amid excavations at Hazor in northern Israel, appears to record legal pronouncements.

Ancient legal document found in northern Israel

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/28/2010

Archaeologists have discovered two 3,700-year-old clay tablets that appear to contain legal pronouncements similar to the Code of Hammurabi and the biblical "tooth for a tooth" rule. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The fragments were unearthed this summer during the Hebrew University of ...

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Home & Food

The story behind these delicious cookies are a hoax -- but they're delightful all the same!

E-mail hoax is still a delicious treat

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

It's all a hoax - albeit a very delicious one. The respondent receives an e-mail that claims to be a true story that goes something like this: "My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie ...

While the FDA does not have a problem with livestock getting antibiotics to combat infections, they are opposed to the practice of antibiotics being applied to livestock to make them gain more weight.

FDA calls animal antibiotics a threat to public health

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/30/2010

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that giving animals antibiotics in order to increase food production is a threat to public health -- and should be stopped. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The agency says that while it does have the power to ban the practice, it will begin by ...

Vern Yip will be acting as a spokesperson for a series of ads touting Kraft's new flavored mayonnaise brands.

Mayonnaise gets a flavor facelift from Kraft

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 5/27/2010

Mayonnaise has the lackluster reputation of being the choice of unremarkable sandwiches. White and gelatinous, it basically acts to make the bread less dry and is overshadowed by pickles, lettuce and tomatoes who give lunchtime its "zing." Not any more. Kraft is set to unveiled a new line of ...

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