Tag: Catholicism

Sister Margaret

Filed in National by on May 27, 2010 31 Comments

Sister Margaret was a senior administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. A 27-year-old mother of four arrived late last year, in her third month of pregnancy. According to local news reports and accounts from the hospital and some of its staff members, the mother suffered from a serious complication called pulmonary hypertension. That created a high probability that the strain of continuing pregnancy would kill her. “In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother’s life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy,” the hospital said in a statement.

Guess what happened to Sister Margaret.

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Notre Dame, Obama and The Gipper

Filed in National by on May 12, 2009 9 Comments

Back at the end of March, we had a little post about some trouble brewing at Notre Dame and its invitation to the President of the United States to be its commencement speaker. You see among the conservative Catholics — the 21 percenters — they cry that this invitation flies in the face of a […]

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One Of The Good Guys

Filed in International by on November 21, 2008 26 Comments

Delaware Liberal is somewhat known for its anti-Catholic rhetoric, so let’s rejoice for a moment for a Catholic priest liberals can admire, Reverend Father Roy Bourgeois. “What’s so special about him?” Donviti asks. Immediately what comes to mind is that he is about to be excommunicated from the Church because not only does he believe that […]

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