Poor Planned Parenthood: Media and Politicians Run to the Rescue

Is there any other organization in America that is more coddled, more sheltered, more pandered to than PP?  The Susan G. Komen Foundation attempted to discontinue some of their grant funding to Planned Parenthood this week, and boy, did they get smacked down for it.  That's the lesson of this Komen story:  Planned Parenthood has friends in high and useful places, and if you dare cross them, you will be destroyed.
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• Pope Benedict XVI Calls Christians to Prayer as the 'Yes' Which Sets Us Free
• Panetta: 'Strong possibility' Israel will strike Iran's nuclear installations in spring
• Notorious Cambodian war criminal sentenced to life in prison

President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast. Catholics Won't Get Fooled Again

During the last Presidential campaign many Catholics were deluded by then Senator Barack Obama. His rhetoric uses language which sounds as though he agrees with Catholics on issues such as our obligation to the poor and the needy. His administration has acted in a manner which proves the opposite. The most egregious example is his failure to hear the cry of the children in the womb. However, there are many more, including his denial of religious freedom and his failure to defend marriage and the family and society founded upon it. His words at the National Prayer Breakfast call us to pray for him. However, we will not be fooled again.
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The Happy Priest: Jesus Gives Meaning to Human Suffering

• Catholic Social Doctrine: The Right to Work and the Dignity of the Human Person
• Fr Dwight Longenecker on Priests and Politics: Should Religion and Politics Mix?

Congregation for the Clergy on the Mystery of Suffering and the Saving Power of God